Plus-size model

One of Greece's most famous plus-size models, 26-year-old Alexia Kouvela, has founded the country's first agency exclusively for the least represented models on the world's runways. "The trendy stores didn't carry sizes for girls with extra pounds, so I often ended up dressing in men's clothes.

The world of fashion is often thought of as being only about glitz, glamour and sexiness. But that is far from the truth. Sara Ziff is an American fashion model, filmmaker and labour activist.

It was long in coming, but finally, normal to “healthy” sized models are making their mark on fashion runways around the world, reversing all too pervasive images of skeleton-like waifs parading around in size …0 creations.

February’s Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit Issue will be released on the 9th of this month. For the first time, the pages of the Sports Illustrated mag will include a “plus size” (normal person size) model in its pages.

This is 27 year old Ashley Graham who is the first model of this kind to grace the famous magazine.