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Plus-size? More like my size

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Ashley Graham |

TEDxBerkleeValencia

• April 2015

When Ashley Graham first started her modeling career, she was followed everywhere by a label she hates: "plus-size model." Defying such regressive pigeonholing, she explains how she stopped devaluing herself and reclaimed her body as her own.

When Ashley Graham first started her modeling career, she was followed everywhere by a label she hates: "plus-size model." Defying such regressive pigeonholing, she explains how she stopped devaluing herself and reclaimed her body as her own.

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Ashley Graham

Body activist, model

Ashley Graham is a body activist and model.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxBerkleeValencia, an independent event.

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