Robyn Lawley Would Prefer You Not Label Her a 'Plus Size' Model
LatestRobyn Lawley has been getting noticed lately as a fresh face in plus-size modeling, appearing in ads for Chantelle, Barneys New York and Mango’s new plus-size line. But actually, she’d prefer that everyone stop calling her a plus-size model.
Lawley is the cover girl for this month’s Clique magazine, and the Daily Mail has snippets from the interview. She talks about the lengths she went to, trying to fit the industry ideal, before getting gigs as a plus-size model: “I genuinely really tried. I was counting calories, I was taking diet pills, I was dabbling in starvation.”
But she’s not totally thrilled to be boxed into a niche, either: “You know, in the beginning I didn’t mind getting called it, I was like, ‘Yay! It’s fine!’ And it’s been a community that’s really represented me well and loved me and really helped me. But I’m not a plus-size person, and I’m a model. I don’t think I need that ‘plus-size’ in front of it.”