Bumford (whose professional moniker is Madison Reis) is a size 14, and she’s not your average model. Though she’s signed to an agency as a plus-size model, the 20-year-old is often too small ...

(Further research revealed that model Denise Bidot is Puerto Rican and Kuwaiti.) My first images of plus-size models were African-American women. Growing up, Lane Bryant was where I and many of my ...

Many of us remember wanting America’s Next Top Model hopeful Toccara Jones to win as the first black plus-sized supermodel – but what we perhaps don’t know are the plus-size pioneers like ...