Model Ashley Graham says the phrase unnecessarily forces people into categories.
\n\u201cI think the word \u2018plus-sized\u2019 is so divisive to women,\u201d Graham, 30, said on a TV show, reports people.com,.
\n\u201cI think that when you use the word \u2018plus size\u2019, you\u2019re putting all these women into a category,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018You don\u2019t eat well. You don\u2019t work out. You couldn\u2019t care less about your body. You\u2019re insecure. You have no confidence.\u2019 And that is none of this,\u201d Graham said, referring to herself.
\nGraham argued the same point in a TEDxBerkleeValencia talk she gave in 2015.
\n\u201cThe fashion industry may persist to label me as \u2018plus size,\u2019 but I like to think of it as \u2018my size’\u201d she said.
\n\u201cCurvy models are becoming more and more vocal about the isolating nature of the term \u2018plus size.\u2019 We are calling ourselves what we want to be called \u2013 women, with shapes that are our own,\u201d added the model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Model Ashley Graham says the phrase unnecessarily forces people into categories. \u201cI think the word \u2018plus-sized\u2019 is so divisive to women,\u201d Graham, 30, said on a TV show, reports people.com,. \u201cI think that when you use the word \u2018plus size\u2019, you\u2019re putting all these women into a category,\u201d she added. \u201c\u2018You don\u2019t eat well. You …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1974,1978,1971,1969,1979,1972,1973,1977,1970,1975,1976],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-1974","tag-fashion-industry","tag-forces-people-into-categories","tag-model-ashley-graham","tag-more-vocal-about-the-isolating-nature","tag-on-a-tv-show","tag-reports-people-com","tag-tedxberkleevalencia","tag-term-plus-size-is-divisive","tag-women-into-a-category","tag-you-dont-eat-well-you-dont-work-out-you-couldnt-care-less"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}