Amy Schumer got a lot of hand claps when she called out Glamour magazine for labeling her plus-sized. Now model Ashley Graham is clapping back at the comedian over what she sees as a double standard in an interview with Cosmopolitan.
When Graham, who via industry standards is labeled plus-sized but does not embrace that moniker, was asked about Schumer she said:
“I can see both sides, but Amy talks about being a big girl in the industry. You thrive on being a big girl, but when you’re grouped in with us, you’re not happy about it? That, to me, felt like a double standard.”
Schumer wrote, after being featured in a piece in Glamour’s plus-sized only issue that included Graham and Melissa McCarthy, “I think there’s nothing wrong with being plus-size. Beautiful healthy women. Plus size is considered size 16 in America. I go between a size 6 and an 8. Young girls seeing my body type thinking that is plus size? What are your thoughts? Mine are not cool glamour not glamourous.”
Here’s Graham explaining why she doesn’t call herself plus-size:
“Just because I’m not calling myself plus-size doesn’t mean I’m not representing a woman who is … I’m giving curvy women a seat at a table that we’ve never been invited to before —a table with high-end fashion people who have never considered us beautiful.”
Graham posted the following body-positive post to Instagram yesterday:
Glamour’s editor-in-chief later apologized to Schumer and clarified that the magazine never intended to imply that she was plus-size.
