As a longtime advocate for body acceptance , Ashley Graham finds it difficult to watch so many bodies drastically shrink in the GLP-1 era.

"It's really disheartening," the supermodel tells Marie Claire in our 2026 Motherhood Issue cover story.

"There was a pendulum that swung that was so body acceptance, positivity, everybody be who they want to be . And now it's going back this whole opposite way that feels like a smack in the face to the women who have felt like they've had a voice."

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But the entrepreneur and mom of three still believes there's reason to hope, including the fact that her industry has "seen more movement for plus-size women than some people give the whole industry credit for."

For her, the "trend" of shrinking bodies is just that: a trend, and one that won't last forever—nor change things for women who live in larger bodies.

"It goes with the times—and GLP-1s are a time," she says.…