Ashley Graham Ervin (born October 30, 1987) is an American model, television host, author, and entrepreneur, and the face most people picture when they hear the phrase “the industry changed.” She is the curve model, her preferred term for a career the business files under plus-size, who moved the category from the catalog pages where it had been quarantined onto the covers, contracts, and runways that define a mainstream career. What she does in front of a camera is direct address: where editorial modeling often trades on remove, Graham looks straight down the lens like someone who has already won the argument, and the frame reads as invitation rather than aspiration. On a runway she walks like a host working her own room, unhurried and visibly enjoying it, which is why her inclusion in shows read as arrival rather than experiment.
Scouted at 12 in a Nebraska shopping mall, Graham spent her first decade in the parallel economy of plus-size catalog work, with Wilhelmina and then Ford, before a banned Lane Bryant lingerie commercial made her a national name in 2010. The breakthroughs came in a rush once the door cracked: the 2016 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover, the first ever for a plus-size model; the January 2017 British Vogue cover, another first; American Vogue‘s March 2017 cover weeks later; and the Michael Kors Fall/Winter 2017 runway, a third barrier down. Revlon signed her as a global ambassador in January 2018, and the second act arrived early and never stopped: design lines, the Pretty Big Deal podcast, two books, television hosting, and investor stakes in Knix and Fig.1.
Graham keeps working at full tilt in 2026: Victoria’s Secret and Nina Ricci runways, Stuart Weitzman’s global campaigns, a namesake JCPenney collection, and a 2025 Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago. Two decades in, she remains the reference point for what the industry’s inclusion era looks like when it is working.
People also read: Tyra Banks (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover, 1997), Naomi Campbell (Versace campaigns), Cindy Crawford (Pepsi, 1992), Iman (Yves Saint Laurent muse)
Quick Facts
| Real Name: | Ashley Graham Ervin |
| Profession: | Model, television host, author, and entrepreneur |
| Born: | October 30, 1987 |
| Age: | 38 (as of 2026) |
| Birthplace: | Lincoln, Nebraska, United States |
| Nationality: | American |
| Height: | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) |
| Modeling Type(s): | Curve (her preferred framing; the industry category is plus-size); editorial; commercial and print; runway |
| Discovered / Path In: | Scouted at 12 by the I & I agency at Oak View Mall in Omaha, Nebraska (2000); signed with Wilhelmina Models at 13 after a model convention |
| Runway Debut: | 2015, New York (Addition Elle x Ashley Graham, Style360 at New York Fashion Week; earlier runway work is thinly documented) |
| Agency / Representation: | IMG Models (worldwide, since 2013) |
| Known For: | Breaking the plus-size barrier on the covers of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue (2016) and British and American Vogue (2017), then converting the firsts into contracts, design lines, and a media career |
| Notable Campaigns & Covers: | Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover, February 2016; British Vogue, January 2017; Vogue US, March 2017; Revlon (2018 to present); Lane Bryant campaigns (2010s); Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show (2024, 2025) |
| Awards: | Glamour Women of the Year (2016); Time 100 (2017); UN Women for Peace Association Women Empowerment Award, inaugural recipient (2019) |
| Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio |
| Relationship: | Married to filmmaker Justin Ervin (2010 to present); three sons |
| Years Active: | 2001 to present |
Featured Video
Video courtesy of the official TEDx Talks YouTube channel.
Graham’s April 2015 TEDx talk at TEDxBerkleeValencia is the clearest statement of the argument her career went on to win, delivered ten months before the Sports Illustrated cover made the industry catch up.
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Video courtesy of Ashley Graham on YouTube.
Early Life & Education
Ashley Graham was born on October 30, 1987, the eldest of three sisters, and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, where the family settled during her middle school years. Her mother, Linda Graham, was a homemaker and remains the person Graham cites as her first and most durable role model; her relationship with her father was distant, a subject she has addressed candidly in her memoir. School was a grind for reasons that had names only later: she was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia as a young student, attending Scott Middle School and then Lincoln Southwest High School through 2005. She has said modeling kept progressing for her because nothing else did, a self-deprecating line that undersells how hard the next decade was.
The discovery story is the vertical’s classic, and it is documented rather than embellished: in 2000, at 12 years old, Graham was scouted by the Omaha-based I & I agency while shopping at Oak View Mall. A year later, after a model convention, she signed with Wilhelmina Models at 13, a scouting age that reads startling from outside the business and unremarkable within it. The early work was the plus-size economy of the era, catalogs and commercial print for clients like JCPenney, with YM magazine among the first editorial notices. That market segregation, editorial on one side and the plus catalog on the other, is the wall her career has been about dismantling.
She moved to New York at 18 to model full time, switching to Ford Models in 2003 and settling into a decade of steady, invisible work: bookings that paid, and a ceiling nobody considered negotiable. The first cracks came from editors. Sally Singer profiled her in Vogue in April 2007 under the title “Body of Work,” and in October 2009 Glamour placed her in the “These Bodies Are Beautiful at Every Size” group editorial alongside Crystal Renn, Kate Dillon Levin, and other plus-size models. The pivotal moment, though, arrived by accident, in the form of a commercial too controversial to air.
Career Highlights and Milestones
The 2010 Lane Bryant commercial for the brand’s Cacique lingerie line should have been a routine booking. Instead, ABC and Fox declined to run it in prime time, the refusal became a news story, the spot passed 800,000 views on YouTube, and Graham went on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that May to talk about why a lingerie ad starring her was treated differently from the lingerie ads running unremarked all around it. It was censorship as career launch: the first time the mainstream said her name, it was to explain why she had been kept out of frame. She spent the next five years converting that visibility into infrastructure: the Addition Elle lingerie line from 2013, mentoring on MTV’s Made, international Harper’s Bazaar pages and the June 2014 Elle Quebec cover, and the 2013 IMG Models signing that positioned everything that followed.
The 2015 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue put her in its pages by the side door, a paid swimsuitsforall advertisement in the brand’s #CurvesInBikinis campaign, and the issue’s readers largely could not tell the ad from the editorial, which was the point. A year later the magazine made her a rookie and put her on the cover outright: shot by James Macari in Turks and Caicos, published in February 2016, one of three covers alongside Ronda Rousey and Hailey Clauson, and the first ever given to a plus-size model. The backlash was instructive: former swimsuit star Cheryl Tiegs criticized the choice on health grounds and later apologized, and when Graham’s first Maxim cover drew retouching accusations, she rebutted them directly. She returned to the issue in Fiji in 2017 and Nevis in 2018, by which point the argument was over. Forbes had already given her the 30 Under 30 list and its January 2016 cover; Glamour named her a Woman of the Year that November, with Mattel unveiling a one-of-a-kind Barbie in her likeness at the ceremony.
Then came the six weeks that moved her from phenomenon to fixture. British Vogue gave her its January 2017 cover, shot by Patrick Demarchelier in a Coach leather jacket, the first plus-size model on the magazine’s cover, and then-editor Alexandra Shulman disclosed that some designers had flatly refused to lend clothes for the shoot, a rare on-record admission of how the sample-size economy enforces exclusion. Weeks later American Vogue put her on its March 2017 “no norm is the new norm” group cover alongside Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid, the edition’s first plus-size cover model. Days after that, on February 15, 2017, she walked Michael Kors’s Fall/Winter 2017 show, the house’s first plus-size booking and one Kors had publicly called logistically impossible five months earlier. The contracts followed the covers, as they do: Revlon signed her as a global brand ambassador in January 2018, the first major beauty contract for a curve model of her generation, and the runway record kept compounding, from H&M Studio’s celebrated all-ages, all-bodies Paris show in March 2016 through Christian Siriano, Prabal Gurung, Balmain in Paris, and Dolce & Gabbana’s Milan runways from February 2023.
The second act ran concurrently the whole time, because curve careers monetize influence early or not at all. Her memoir, A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like (Dey Street Books, May 2017), became the movement’s central first-person document; the Pretty Big Deal podcast launched in 2018 with Kim Kardashian West as its first guest; and the hosting work stacked up, from America’s Next Top Model and the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants to American Beauty Star, ABC’s Oscars pre-shows, and Roku’s Side Hustlers with Emma Grede. She became Knix’s first global ambassador and an investor in 2021, joined skin-care brand Fig.1 in 2022, and paused for motherhood on her own terms, narrating her returns after Isaac’s 2020 birth and the twins’ in 2022 herself rather than letting the tabloids do it. The recent seasons read like a victory lap that refuses to slow down: among the first group of curve models to walk the revived Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in October 2024, and back on that runway in October 2025; the Chicago Broadway debut in spring 2025; the JCPenney collection and Stuart Weitzman ambassadorship in fall 2025; and a Nina Ricci runway walk in Paris in March 2026.
Selected Career Highlights
- Signed with Wilhelmina Models at 13 after a model convention (2001)
- Profiled by Sally Singer in Vogue, “Body of Work” (April 2007)
- Glamour, “These Bodies Are Beautiful at Every Size” group editorial (October 2009)
- Lane Bryant’s Cacique commercial pulled from prime time by ABC and Fox; addressed the controversy on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2010)
- Launched the Ashley Graham x Addition Elle lingerie line and signed with IMG Models (2013)
- Appeared inside the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue via the swimsuitsforall #CurvesInBikinis advertisement (2015)
- First plus-size model on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, shot by James Macari in Turks and Caicos (February 2016)
- Forbes 30 Under 30, with the magazine’s January cover (2016)
- First plus-size model on a British Vogue cover, shot by Patrick Demarchelier (January 2017)
- First plus-size model on an American Vogue cover, the March “no norm is the new norm” group cover (2017)
- First plus-size model to walk Michael Kors’s runway, Fall/Winter 2017 (February 2017)
- Published A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like (May 2017)
- Revlon global brand ambassador, the first major beauty contract for a curve model of her generation (January 2018)
- Among the first group of curve models to walk the revived Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show (October 2024); returned in October 2025
- Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago, and a namesake JCPenney collection (2025)
Major Recognition
- Glamour Women of the Year, with Mattel unveiling a one-of-a-kind Barbie in her likeness at the ceremony (2016)
- Time 100 Most Influential People (2017)
- Forbes 30 Under 30, with the January cover (2016)
- People’s 25 Most Intriguing People of the Year (2016)
- United Nations Women for Peace Association Women Empowerment Award, the organization’s first (2019)
- Women Making History Awards honoree (2023)
- The Business of Fashion’s BoF 500, Class of 2024
- The Daily Front Row’s Fashion Force of the Year and GQ’s International Female Model of the Year (years not consistently dated in public bios)
- Full Figured Fashion Week Model of the Year (2012)
- The industry firsts stand as recognition in themselves under this vertical’s honors reframe: the 2016 Sports Illustrated cover, the 2017 Vogue covers, the Michael Kors runway first, and the 2024 Victoria’s Secret inclusion each marked the industry conceding defended ground
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Awards and Accolades
| Year | Award | Category | Context | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Full Figured Fashion Week Model of the Year | Modeling | The plus-size industry’s own circuit honoring its standout face, four years before the mainstream caught up | Won |
| 2016 | Forbes 30 Under 30 | Media / entertainment list | Named to the list and featured on the magazine’s January cover alongside fellow honorees | Selected |
| 2016 | Glamour Women of the Year | Honoree | Honored for the body-positivity movement’s mainstream breakthrough; Mattel unveiled a one-of-a-kind Barbie in her likeness at the summit | Awarded |
| 2016 | People’s 25 Most Intriguing People of the Year | Annual list | Capping the breakthrough year | Selected |
| 2017 | Time 100 | Most Influential People | Named as the inclusion movement’s most visible figure | Selected |
| 2019 | Women Empowerment Award | UN Women for Peace Association | The association’s inaugural award of this name, presented for her advocacy on body image and self-acceptance | Awarded |
| 2023 | Women Making History Awards | Honoree | Honored for reshaping beauty standards across fashion and media | Awarded |
| 2024 | BoF 500 | The Business of Fashion | Named to the industry’s definitive index of the people shaping global fashion, Class of 2024 | Selected |
Note: public bios also credit Graham with The Daily Front Row’s Fashion Force of the Year and GQ’s International Female Model of the Year; the conferral years are not consistently dated in those sources, so both honors are carried in Major Recognition above rather than in this dated table.
Selected Campaigns & Covers
| Year(s) | Campaign / Cover | Brand / Publication | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | “Body of Work” profile | Vogue US | Editorial | Sally Singer’s early profile, the first serious fashion-press notice of a career the industry had filed away as catalog work |
| 2009 | “These Bodies Are Beautiful at Every Size” | Glamour | Editorial | The group editorial with Crystal Renn and Kate Dillon Levin that put plus-size models in a mainstream glossy on their own terms |
| 2010 | Cacique lingerie commercial | Lane Bryant | Campaign | Pulled from prime time by ABC and Fox; the refusal made national news and made her a name |
| 2010–2016 | Lane Bryant campaigns and billboards | Lane Bryant | Campaign | The decade’s commercial anchor, including two Manhattan billboards in December 2012 |
| 2013 | Ashley Graham x Addition Elle | Addition Elle | Design collaboration | Her long-running lingerie line for the Canadian retailer; she opened and closed its Style360 NYFW shows from 2015 |
| 2015–2016 | #CurvesInBikinis and design partnership | swimsuitsforall | Campaign | The paid advertisement inside the 2015 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue that preceded the cover; named the brand’s face in late 2015, designing annual collections from May 2016 |
| 2016 | Swimsuit Issue cover | Sports Illustrated | Cover | The barrier moment: first plus-size model on the cover, shot by James Macari in Turks and Caicos; she returned to the issue in 2017 and 2018 |
| 2017 | January cover | British Vogue | Cover | First plus-size model on a British Vogue cover, shot by Patrick Demarchelier; then-editor Alexandra Shulman disclosed some designers refused to dress her for the shoot |
| 2017 | March “no norm is the new norm” group cover | Vogue US | Cover | Her American Vogue debut and the edition’s first plus-size cover model, alongside Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid |
| 2017 | Fall/Winter 2017 show | Michael Kors | Runway | First plus-size model to walk the house’s runway, days after the Vogue cover; Kors had publicly called the logistics impossible five months earlier |
| 2018–present | Global brand ambassador | Revlon | Ambassadorship | The first major beauty contract for a curve model of her generation, signed January 2018 |
| 2021–present | Knix Active and Ashley Graham x Knix | Knix | Design collaboration | First-ever global ambassador and an investor; the capsule lingerie collection launched May 2022, and the Big. Strong. Woman. film with founder Joanna Griffiths premiered in 2022 |
| 2024–2025 | Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show | Victoria’s Secret | Runway | Among the first group of curve models to walk the revived show in October 2024, a door the brand had kept closed for its entire imperial era; returned October 2025 |
| 2025–present | Namesake collection | JCPenney | Design collaboration | Announced April 2025, launched fall 2025; a full-circle deal, since JCPenney’s catalog was among her earliest clients |
| 2025–present | “Stuart Weitzman New York” and “Concrete Paradise” | Stuart Weitzman | Ambassadorship | Global ambassador from fall 2025; the spring 2026 campaign shot by Ned Rogers and styled by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson |
Agency & Representation History
| Years | Agency / Representation | Market(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000–2001 | I & I | Omaha / Midwest US | The mother agency, after its scout spotted her at Oak View Mall in Omaha in 2000, at 12 |
| 2001–2003 | Wilhelmina Models | New York | Signed at 13 after a model convention; the start of the catalog years on the agency’s plus board |
| 2003–2013 | Ford Models | New York | A decade on Ford’s plus-size division, steady commercial work under the era’s hard ceiling; the division-structured market defined what curve representation could and could not book |
| 2013–present | IMG Models | Worldwide (New York; Paris; Milan; London) | The 2013 signing as IMG built out its curve board positioned the mainstream run that followed; she has since described dropping a second agent as a turning point in taking control of her own contracts |
Business & Media Ventures
| Years | Venture / Production | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Ashley Graham x Addition Elle | Designer | The lingerie line that made her a designer-model years before the covers arrived |
| 2016–2018 | America’s Next Top Model (VH1); Miss USA and Miss Universe | Judge; backstage host | The pageant hosting ran 2016 to 2018; the ANTM judging seat put her on the other side of the casting table |
| 2017 | A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like | Author | The memoir, published by Dey Street Books in May 2017; also fronted the nine-episode Go90 series The Ashley Graham Project that year |
| 2018–present | Pretty Big Deal | Host and executive producer | Interview podcast launched October 2018 with Kim Kardashian West; the name reclaims “pretty for a big girl,” a line she heard for years |
| 2019–2023 | Television hosting | Host | American Beauty Star season two (2019, also executive producer), ABC’s Countdown to the Oscars (2019, 2023), HGTV’s Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge (2023) |
| 2021–present | Knix; Flamingo | Ambassador and investor; collaborator | Knix’s first global ambassador and an investor from 2021; a body-hair-removal kit line with Harry’s Flamingo label the same year |
| 2022–present | Fig.1 | Investor, partner, and board member | Joined the affordable skin-care brand in 2022 with a product-development role |
| 2024–present | Side Hustlers (Roku); A Kids Book About Beauty | Co-host; author | The entrepreneurship series with Emma Grede returned for season two in August 2024; the children’s book published June 2024 |
| 2025 | Chicago (Broadway) | Roxie Hart | Broadway debut, April 15 to May 25, 2025 |
Net Worth, Income, & Lifestyle
| Net Worth (2026) | Public estimates vary widely, from roughly $10 million (Celebrity Net Worth) to $18–20 million in other outlets. Graham has not disclosed a verified net worth figure. Treat numbers found online as unconfirmed. |
| Income Sources | Campaign and editorial fees, runway fees, beauty and footwear ambassador contracts, design collaborations and licensing, podcast and television hosting, book royalties, brand investments, and speaking engagements. |
| Contracts & Brand Partnerships | Revlon global ambassador since January 2018, reported at the time as the first major beauty contract for a curve model of her generation; Stuart Weitzman global ambassador since fall 2025 (per WWD); Knix ambassador and investor since 2021; the JCPenney namesake collection from 2025; the swimsuitsforall design partnership from 2016. For star models the ambassador contracts, not the editorial day rates, are where the money is, and Graham’s portfolio is a textbook case. |
| Properties & Assets | Most detailed financial and property information is kept private. Reliable public documentation is limited. |
| Lifestyle | New York based, running a family of five around a calendar that still includes fashion month; the businesses, podcast, and bookings run as one operation, and she treats her own name as the asset she negotiates for. |
Social Media & Online Presence
| @ashleygraham, verified, roughly 21 million followers as of mid-2025; her bio reads “model, mogul, mama.” The anchor platform and part of the business: campaign reveals, casting calls, and family content all run through it. | |
| TikTok | Maintains a presence under her own name; her short-video footprint trails Instagram, which remains the primary channel. |
| X (Twitter) | @ashleygraham, long-standing verified account, used for campaign moments and occasional head-on responses to body-shaming posts. |
| A public page exists under her name; activity is secondary to Instagram. | |
| YouTube | The Ashley Graham channel hosts full Pretty Big Deal podcast episodes, several released under Creative Commons licensing. |
| Agency Profile | Official board at IMG Models, her worldwide representation since 2013. |
| Official Website | Her official web presence currently routes through the podcast and social channels rather than a standalone site. |
NOTE: In addition to any official accounts listed above, many fan-run pages, appreciation accounts, and fashion-history accounts exist across platforms. These are not confirmed to be affiliated with Ashley Graham. Links and usernames can change at any time.
Trivia & Lesser-Known Facts
- Mattel built a one-of-a-kind Barbie in her likeness for Glamour’s 2016 Women of the Year summit, working from 360-degree photographs rather than a body scan, a process she described to Fashionista.
- Before her first walk for Michael Kors in February 2017, the biggest show of her career to that point, Bella Hadid gave her runway-walk tips backstage, a detail Graham shared herself on Instagram that night.
- Her music-video crossovers bookend her breakthrough years: DNCE’s “Toothbrush” in 2016 and Maroon 5’s “Girls Like You” in 2018.
- The JCPenney deal announced in 2025 is a full-circle story she tells herself: the retailer’s catalog was among her very first clients as a Nebraska teenager.
- Her podcast’s name, Pretty Big Deal, reclaims a phrase that trailed her for years: she has said she was constantly called “pretty for a big girl.”
- Her husband, filmmaker Justin Ervin, met her at church in 2009; they married the following year.
Quotes
“There is no one perfect body.”
– Ashley Graham, TEDx talk “Plus-size? More Like My Size,” TEDxBerkleeValencia (2015)
“I hope in the next year people will stop saying ‘plus-size.'”
– Ashley Graham, interview with The Daily Beast (February 2016)
“They aren’t just breaking barriers. They are the standard now.”
– Ashley Graham on her Sports Illustrated cover, interview with People (February 2016)
“It’s just about being who you are.”
– Ashley Graham, interview with Fashionista (November 2016)
“I am pretty, and I am big. I’m a pretty big deal.”
– Ashley Graham, podcast launch statement, quoted by Sports Illustrated Swimsuit (2018)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q: What is Ashley Graham’s age?
A: Ashley Graham was born on October 30, 1987, making her 38 years old as of 2026.
Q: What is Ashley Graham best known for?
A: She is best known as the model who broke the plus-size barrier on the industry’s biggest stages: the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover (2016), the British and American Vogue covers (2017), Michael Kors’s runway (2017), and the Revlon contract (2018).
Q: Which agency represents Ashley Graham?
A: IMG Models has represented her worldwide since 2013, following earlier tenures with Wilhelmina Models (2001) and Ford Models (2003 to 2013).
Q: How was Ashley Graham discovered?
A: She was scouted in 2000, at age 12, by the Omaha-based I & I agency while shopping at Oak View Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, and signed with Wilhelmina Models at 13 after attending a model convention.
Q: Is Ashley Graham still modeling?
A: Yes. She walked the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in October 2025 and the Nina Ricci Fall/Winter 2026 show in Paris in March 2026, and fronts Stuart Weitzman’s spring 2026 campaign as a global ambassador.
Q: What are Ashley Graham’s most famous campaigns and covers?
A: The 2016 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover, the 2017 British and American Vogue covers, the Lane Bryant run, the Revlon ambassadorship, her Addition Elle, swimsuitsforall, Knix, and JCPenney design lines, and the 2024 and 2025 Victoria’s Secret shows.
Q: Does Ashley Graham have official social media?
A: Yes. Her verified Instagram, @ashleygraham, has roughly 21 million followers; she is also on X, with a YouTube channel hosting Pretty Big Deal.
Upcoming Campaigns & Projects
- Beauty line (details unannounced, timing TBA): Marie Claire’s April 2026 cover profile reported that Graham has a beauty line in development; no brand name, category, or launch date has been announced. Treat as subject to change until confirmed by Graham or a brand partner.
- Stuart Weitzman ambassadorship (ongoing): the spring 2026 “Concrete Paradise” campaign launched in March 2026; further seasonal campaigns are expected but unconfirmed.
- JCPenney namesake collection (ongoing): an exclusive line with seasonal releases; future drops are scheduled by the retailer and subject to change.
- Campaign work in this industry is embargoed by default: brands announce and models rarely pre-announce, so unannounced fall 2026 bookings and show walks are not speculated about here.
Interviews & Features
- Marie Claire, “Ashley Graham Is Our Motherhood Issue Cover Star” (April 2026), the 2026 cover profile on motherhood, business, and the state of the movement she started.
- WWD, “Ashley Graham Returns to Star in Stuart Weitzman’s Spring 2026 Campaign” (March 2026), the trade’s coverage of her current ambassador contract.
- The Daily Beast, “Meet Ashley Graham, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue’s First ‘Plus-Size’ Cover Girl” (February 2016), the definitive on-the-ground interview from the week the cover landed.
- Fashionista, “Ashley Graham Honored as a ‘Glamour’ Woman of the Year With Her Own Barbie Doll” (November 2016), a long interview on the Barbie, the labels, and the year everything changed.
- TED, “Plus-size? More like my size” (2015), the TEDxBerkleeValencia talk that remains her clearest personal manifesto.
Public Appearances & Events
- Met Gala (May 4, 2026): Graham appeared in New York at the 2026 Met Gala celebrating the Costume Institute’s “Costume Art” exhibition, a fixture slot she has held for years.
- Nina Ricci Fall/Winter 2026 show (March 6, 2026): she walked the runway in Paris during Paris Fashion Week, her most recent European runway booking.
- South Beach Wine & Food Festival (February 2026): she hosted the festival’s Late Night Pizza Party in Miami, one of the event’s marquee celebrity-hosted evenings.
- Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show (October 15, 2025): she returned to the brand’s runway in New York at Steiner Studios, a year after her landmark first walk.
- The Fashion Awards (December 2024): she attended the British Fashion Council’s ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
