On embracing her size 12 figure:
‘I still have bad body days,’ she explained. ‘But it’s OK to have bad days. I don’t think anyone can feel completely confident all the time. But I feel so much more connected to who I am now [than I did a few years ago]. I feel completely connected to my body and that’s been amazing to experience.’
On the ‘plus-size’ model label:
‘I embrace [the label] for what it is. I look at plus size as more of an industry word, but it doesn’t bother me, I love it. Since I have been modeling, there has always been a straight board and a plus size board of models and that isn’t something I see as being negative. That’s just the way that it is. When I speak to people in the street and they ask what I do, I sometimes get some funny remarks. But I think being plus size is a beautiful thing. And it’s an industry term, really, so I do understand why people don’t always understand it.
… says 22 year-old Hayley.
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