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A "plus-size" model is making history on the pages of an unexpected magazine.

Our favourite supermodel just made history.

Robyn Lawley is a world-famous Australian model who’s appearing in a highly-anticipated edition of Sports Illustrated.

The 25-year-old model is also a size 12, which makes her “plus-size” by the industry’s unrealistic standards.

And the simple fact that she’s not completely teeny-tiny means she’s making history by appearing in magazine’s highly anticipated swimsuit edition.

Lawley, who will appear in the edition wearing a bikini from her own line, told TIME magazine she doesn’t necessarily identify as “plus size” (After all, she’s smaller than the average Australian woman…)

“I don’t know if I consider myself as a plus-size model or not,” she told TIME. “I just consider myself a model because I’m trying to help women in general accept their bodies.”

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Nevertheless, she really didn’t think she’d make it as a bikini model, given that she deviates slightly from the ever-so-skinny “norm” within the industry.

“I never thought that this would happen to me, so this is a milestone,” says Lawley. “When I started my career 10 years ago, I had to painfully go to castings and people would look at you and say, ‘What the hell are you doing here?’… I want to be there for the regular girls who are my size.”

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While it’s sad that Lawley‘s inclusion in this edition is even a big deal — a woman being a size 12 should hardly be controversial — we welcome any magazines embracing more diverse body types.

Go, Robyn, go.

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Top Comments

Monkeyfish 10 years ago

She's a USA size 12. She's said many times before in interviews that she wears an Australian size 16, which is the average. Do you people even research..?


RClare 10 years ago

This isn't really a great victory for anyone. She is still a freak of nature. 188cm tall and slender with boobs. I love Robyn but I don't think she should be held up as the standard for the fashion industry changing its tune. If they had someone with a little bit of fat and jiggle on them, that would be a great victory.