Ashley Graham

There’s a lot we admire about model and body activist Ashley Graham, but topping the list is definitely her unapologetic love for her curves and confidence in showing them off. She shared all of her self-confidence secrets in her autobiography, A New Model, and opened up about how she learned to accept her size (despite the haters) to become the badass supermodel that we know and love today.

“I always tell parents that your words have power. My mother never looked in the mirror and said negative things like ‘I look so fat today,’ which helped me develop a healthy personal body image as a young girl.”

“In my book, I talk about how our parents are our first role models, and I think that if there was more family talk about body image, young children would grow up more confident in their own skin.”