She’d met with Swimsuit Issue editor MJ Day in 2014, and the two hit it off, but Graham didn’t make the cut for the ’15 issue. “I learned about it after eating two giant plates of food,” she says, laughing. Graham, who is 28, learned she’d be shooting a spread for SI’s Swimsuit Issue on Thanksgiving, right after taking down a hearty meal. “There are all kinds of descriptions for models. “I hope in the next year people will stop saying ‘plus-size,’ and they’ll just say, ‘She’s a model.’ I think that the day is coming,” she says, before cracking a smile.
And because she’s a size 14, which again, is the size of the average American woman, Graham thought “they would never put a girl my size on the cover.” Well, she thought wrong. But the fact that Lawley was even classified as a “plus-size” model was ludicrous. Last year, SI made waves by casting its first “plus-size” model, Robyn Lawley, in its pages. Today, she’s 166 pounds and a size 14-which just so happens to be Graham’s current size.
In 1960, the average American woman weighed 140 pounds. I have a lot of female fans, and it’s really nice to see that men are desirous of girls my size as well.”Īmerica, of course, is getting bigger. “It’s great to see all the men come out here. “I’ve never experienced anything like this! This is so much fun,” beams Graham, nestled on a couch, sipping black coffee. Heck, in 2007, Queen Beyoncé even graced its cover. Since its inception in 1964, the Swimsuit Issue has introduced the world to future stars Cheryl Tiegs, Christie Brinkley, Heidi Klum, and Tyra Banks, and recently boosted the stature of Chrissy Teigen and Kate Upton. Today, Graham is the first plus-size model to grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, an annual release depicting bikini babes in exotic locales that both brings some much-needed heat to cold, dark February and anoints the next generation of model-stars. “We’ve never witnessed this level of content censorship,” a rep for the clothier fumed at the time. But the ad, depicting the then-size 16 stunner in a 38D bra and panties, was deemed too big and beautiful for TV, and got nixed by ABC. She’d starred in a commercial for Cacique, Lane Bryant’s new line of sexy lingerie for plus-size women. The first time Ashley Graham made front-page news wasn’t so pretty.
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