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Plus-size model Hunter McGrady on her fashion line, digitally altered photos and the fight against an industry biased against larger women
- US model Hunter McGrady used to get constant rejections from modelling agencies and agents who told her she was too large to make it in the fashion world
- Her fashion range, All Worthy, has sizes that run from XXS to 5X because she ‘wanted to create a line that everyone could wear’.
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Posing for four Sports Illustrated covers was just the beginning for extra-curvy US model Hunter McGrady, who has now designed an inclusive range of fashion to suit women of all sizes.
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McGrady’s All Worthy range was launched in April amid the coronavirus pandemic that has engulfed the world. Despite the social restrictions that remain in place in many nations, McGrady says some of the pieces in her debut online collection sold out in the first week – one in particular, a black jumpsuit, within minutes.
She has come a long way since she struggled against a series of rejections from modelling agencies, and agents who told her she would never make it in the fashion world.
Now 27, she says the constant knock-backs crushed her confidence.
“I was really upset and thought that I wouldn’t be good enough unless I lost the weight they asked. Now, I let it roll off my back,” she says.
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A voluptuous US size 22, these days McGrady says she has the mental toughness to ignore the insults.
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