{"id":237936,"date":"2026-05-02T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/ashley-graham-reacts-to-glp-1-era-says-shift-away-from-body-positivity-feels-disheartening\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:40:28","slug":"ashley-graham-reacts-to-glp-1-era-says-shift-away-from-body-positivity-feels-disheartening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/ashley-graham-reacts-to-glp-1-era-says-shift-away-from-body-positivity-feels-disheartening\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Graham Reacts to GLP-1 Era, Says Shift Away From Body Positivity Feels \u2018Disheartening\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption><span class=\"copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"\/tags\/ashley-graham\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Ashley Graham<\/strong><\/a> is sharing her thoughts on the use of GLP-1 medications, like <a href=\"\/tags\/ozempic\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Ozempic<\/strong><\/a>, and how this has possibly impacted the body positive movement. If you don&#8217;t know, <strong>Ashley <\/strong>has been sharing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2017\/01\/26\/ashley-graham-shares-cellulite-photo-with-body-positive-message\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">body positive messaging for years and years.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/culture\/ashley-graham-interview-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Marie Claire<\/em><\/a>, she was asked about the &#8220;era of GLP-1s and reports that runway bodies are shrinking once again.&#8221; In response, she shared, \u201cIt&#8217;s really disheartening. There was a pendulum that swung that was so body acceptance, positivity, everybody be who they want to be. And now it&#8217;s going back this whole opposite way that feels like a smack in the face to the women who have felt like they&#8217;ve had a voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-42d8e322-6dda-4021-9234-a29f185440b2\">However, reflecting back she says she has \u201cseen more movement for plus-size women than some people give the whole industry credit for.\u201d <\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-42d8e322-6dda-4021-9234-a29f185440b2\">About the medication use to achieve thinner frames, she added, \u201cIt goes with the times\u2014and GLP-1s are a time\u2026I know that there are and there&#8217;s gonna still be women who are considered plus size forever. This drug isn&#8217;t going to wipe out a whole statistic of women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About how she feels today, she added, \u201cWhy would I stop now and why would I get angry about the work I&#8217;ve done?\u2026I put my head down and I focus on the women we&#8217;ve built the community with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-d9f537ba-fd7a-4718-ad5b-20dd4e17a6fa\">She added, \u201cThere&#8217;s so many [plus size influencers and creators]\u2026they&#8217;re all over the place with their sizes and their proportions and how they look and how they&#8217;re relatable. And to me, that&#8217;s the coolest part about all of this. Seeing that these girls, who were raised on social media at such a young age are now coming in and they have a platform to say to the younger generation, \u2018Be yourself, be who you want to be. If you have cellulite, who cares?\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A huge A-list star recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/03\/25\/meryl-streep-comments-on-alarmingly-thin-models-reveals-anne-hathaway-made-sure-devil-wears-prada-2-wouldnt-showcase-skeletal-bodies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commented on the &#8220;skeletal&#8221; bodies she was seeing.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/02\/ashley-graham-reacts-to-glp-1-era-says-shift-away-from-body-positivity-feels-disheartening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ashley Graham Reacts to GLP-1 Era, Says Shift Away From Body Positivity Feels &#8216;Disheartening&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/02\/ashley-graham-reacts-to-glp-1-era-says-shift-away-from-body-positivity-feels-disheartening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images Ashley Graham is sharing her thoughts on the use of GLP-1 medications, like Ozempic, and how this has possibly impacted the body positive movement. If you don&#8217;t know, Ashley has been sharing body positive messaging for years and years. In a new interview with Marie Claire, she was asked about the &#8220;era of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-237936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}