Ashley Graham is sharing her thoughts on the use of GLP-1 medications, like Ozempic, and how this has possibly impacted the body positive movement. If you don’t know, Ashley has been sharing body positive messaging for years and years.
In a new interview with Marie Claire, she was asked about the “era of GLP-1s and reports that runway bodies are shrinking once again.” In response, she shared, “It’s really disheartening. There was a pendulum that swung that was so body acceptance, positivity, everybody be who they want to be. And now it’s going back this whole opposite way that feels like a smack in the face to the women who have felt like they’ve had a voice.”
However, reflecting back she says she has “seen more movement for plus-size women than some people give the whole industry credit for.”
About the medication use to achieve thinner frames, she added, “It goes with the times—and GLP-1s are a time…I know that there are and there’s gonna still be women who are considered plus size forever. This drug isn’t going to wipe out a whole statistic of women.”
About how she feels today, she added, “Why would I stop now and why would I get angry about the work I’ve done?…I put my head down and I focus on the women we’ve built the community with.”
She added, “There’s so many [plus size influencers and creators]…they’re all over the place with their sizes and their proportions and how they look and how they’re relatable. And to me, that’s the coolest part about all of this. Seeing that these girls, who were raised on social media at such a young age are now coming in and they have a platform to say to the younger generation, ‘Be yourself, be who you want to be. If you have cellulite, who cares?’”
A huge A-list star recently commented on the “skeletal” bodies she was seeing.
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