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Model Ashley Graham started the year with a major accomplishment: She scored one of the three covers of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, making her the first size-16 model to ever get the coveted spot. And now, she's got another cover to add to her list. Graham is Maxim's April cover girl, showing off her curves in nothing but a white button-up shirt, which she holds to her chest.
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Photographed by top French fashion photographer Gilles Bensimon, Graham brings the va-va-voom in her photoshoot inside the mag. She rocks sexy black lingerie, the smokey eye of our dreams, and nothing but her husband Justin Ervin's hands in another sultry snap.
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The model just scored a major body positive campaign with NYDJ, but the 28-year-old told Maxim that she's not slowing down. She has her sights set on building an Ashley Graham empire, à la Tyra Banks or Oprah.
“I know these celebrity entrepreneurs are just people,” she told the mag. “They’ve just been given the right opportunities and have soared with them. And that’s what I’m trying to do.”
Graham's just created her eighth lingerie line with plus-size label Addition Elle, a new clothing line with Dressbarn, and she'll have her first swimsuit collection with Swimsuitsforall out in May. In all her success, Graham has paved the way for a more inclusive world of modeling, where a woman that's a size 16 can score the campaign, magazine cover, and fashion line just like a woman of any other size. The Ashley Graham empire is underway, y'all, and we couldn't be more excited.
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