--- title: Ashley Graham: Plus-Size Model Says Don't Call Jennifer Lawrence Curvy description: Don't call Jennifer Lawrence curvy, says plus-size model Ashley Graham: "She's tiny" canonical: https://time.com/3670824/plus-size-model-ashley-graham-jennifer-lawrence-curvy/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-16T02:05:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:36.920Z og:title: Plus-Size Model Ashley Graham Says Don't Call Jennifer Lawrence Curvy og:description: Don't call Jennifer Lawrence curvy, says plus-size model Ashley Graham: "She's tiny" og:url: https://time.com/3670824/plus-size-model-ashley-graham-jennifer-lawrence-curvy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58b4a6b5c2a6efd5/69877a4fe20a87861da848c4/460423268.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1" - Los Angeles Premiere og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Plus-Size Model Ashley Graham Says Don't Call Jennifer Lawrence Curvy twitter:description: Don't call Jennifer Lawrence curvy, says plus-size model Ashley Graham: "She's tiny" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58b4a6b5c2a6efd5/69877a4fe20a87861da848c4/460423268.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Plus-Size Model Ashley Graham Says Don't Call Jennifer Lawrence Curvy  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jan 16, 2015 2:05 AM UTC  Actress Jennifer Lawrence arrives at the Los Angeles Premiere "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1" at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on November 17, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Actress Jennifer Lawrence arrives at the Los Angeles Premiere "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1" at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on November 17, 2014 in Los Angeles, California.Jon Kopaloff—FilmMagic  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jan 16, 2015 2:05 AM UTC Model Ashley Graham, who has appeared in _Vogue_ and _Elle_, lambasted Hollywood’s treatment of women’s bodies in an [essay](http://www.net-a-porter.com/magazine/280/15) for Net-a-Porter’s online magazine, _The Edit_. The model, who is a size 14, writes: “I think that you can be healthy at any size and my goal is to help and educate women on that. It doesn’t matter if you’re a size 2 or 22 as long as you’re taking care of your body, working out, and telling yourself, ‘I love you’ instead of taking in the negativity of beauty standards.” Though she acknowledged that Hollywood starlets like Marilyn Monroe and Jennifer Lopez have worn their curves with confidence over the years, Graham said she thinks that girls need to see more women on TV and in magazines who have healthy figures. “Young girls don’t have much to look at, curvy women are not on covers of magazines, they’re not talked about on social media as much as other celebrities. Jennifer Lawrence is the media’s poster girl for curves — she’s tiny!” Lawrence has [spoken in the past ](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/04/jennifer-lawrence-reveals-she-was-told-to-diet-or-get-fired/)about how she was told she would lose a job if she didn’t diet, to which she replied, “You can go f-ck yourself.” **_Read next:_**[_Fargo’s Allison Tolman on How to Fix Hollywood’s Body Image Problem_](http://time.com/3662649/fargo-allison-tolman-comedy-chicago-anti-hero-mindy-project-archer-fx-golden-globes/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3670824/plus-size-model-ashley-graham-jennifer-lawrence-curvy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3670824/plus-size-model-ashley-graham-jennifer-lawrence-curvy/"},"headline":"Plus-Size Model Ashley Graham Says Don't Call Jennifer Lawrence Curvy","datePublished":"2015-01-16T02:05:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:36.920Z","description":"Don't call Jennifer Lawrence curvy, says plus-size model Ashley Graham: \"She's tiny\"","url":"https://time.com/3670824/plus-size-model-ashley-graham-jennifer-lawrence-curvy/","keywords":["Living","Jennifer Lawrence","Body Image","beauty"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58b4a6b5c2a6efd5/69877a4fe20a87861da848c4/460423268.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58b4a6b5c2a6efd5/69877a4fe20a87861da848c4/460423268.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1\" - Los Angeles Premiere","caption":"\"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1\" - Los Angeles Premiere","creditText":"Jon Kopaloff—FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3670824/plus-size-model-ashley-graham-jennifer-lawrence-curvy/","name":"Plus-Size Model Ashley Graham Says Don't Call Jennifer Lawrence Curvy"}}]}] ```