Why Ashley Graham Says GLP-1 Trend Is “a Smack in the Face” to Body Positivity Movement

Ashley Graham is strutting into a conversation about weight loss drugs.

The supermodel—who has been a longtime body positive advocate—shared her candid thoughts on how weight loss injections have affected the movement. 

“It’s really disheartening,” Ashley told Marie Claire in an interview published April 30. “There was a pendulum that swung that was so body acceptance, positivity [and] everybody be who they want to be.”

 “And now,” she added, “it’s going back this whole opposite way that feels like a smack in the face to the women who have felt like they’ve had a voice.”

Noting that like any trend, weight loss injections—including Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy—will come and go, she shared how women’s bodies shouldn’t be treated the same. 

“It goes with the times—and GLP-1s are a time,” Ashley explained. “I know that there are and there’s gonna still be women who are considered plus-size forever. This drug isn’t going to wipe out a whole statistic of women.”

Even amid the rising popularity of weight loss drugs, the 38-year-old shared why the body positivity movement is here to stay.