Ashley Graham is pregnant and proud of her body -- and she's letting everybody know on Instagram.
In the photo, she is covers her breast with her hand and her face is not seen. Instead, the image focuses on her stretch marks and folds of skin across her thigh and waist -- all the features you see in a "real body," one fan wrote.
The comments on the picture were overwhelmingly positive, with fans praising Graham for publicly representing what it's like to be a plus-sized woman experiencing pregnancy.
"I'm pregnant, hormonal, and going though so many body changes," one person wrote. "This made me tear up. I really needed this today."
Another commenter on the post thanked her for "being so real in a world of fake" -- perhaps a jab at the fashion industry, which has long faced criticism for unrealistic and exclusive standards for women.
Graham did not confirm how far into her pregnancy she is.
Graham has been campaigning for years to unravel some of the size-zero beauty standards deeply-ingrained in the fashion industry. In 2015, she gave a TED Talk on her experience modeling, detailing how she hated the label "plus-size model."
Ashley Graham poses at a Sports Illustrated event on February 15, 2016 in New York City. Credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images North America/Getty Images for Sports Illustrated
"I felt free once I realized I was never going to fit the narrow mold that society wanted me to fit in," she said in the TED Talk. "And that's okay. Rolls, curves, cellulite, all of it. I love every part of me."
She regularly speaks at high schools and women's groups about topics such as body image and female empowerment, and was the co-founder of ALDA, a collective of models challenging the conventional notions of beauty and size in the fashion industry.
"I am a very curvy, voluptuous woman, and I am very proud of my size 14 hips," said Graham, at the MTV Music Awards. "The only pressure that I feel is to continue to represent women of all shapes and sizes in a correct manner."
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