bride-to-be in search of a wedding gown that will make you look like the best version of yourself. Not so hard, right? Now add the challenge of finding something off-the-rack in a size 16 or 18 or 20?
This is where it gets complicated.Nobody understands that better than Ashley Graham, the 34-year-old American supermodel who has appeared on the cover of both US and British Vogue, and walked the runway for Fendi and Dolce & Gabbana.
When she tied the knot with her film director husband, Justin Ervin, 12 years ago, she was a UK size 20 and struggled to find her dream wedding gown. “I went back to Nebraska where I'm from,” Graham tells me on a video call from her home in New York, “and I went shopping with my mom and my grandma because I wanted that tradition.“I had to compromise on style and fit.
I ended up wearing a champagne satin strapless bustier with lots of ruching from the bust all the way through the hips, and my boobs were right under my chin.”If you’re larger than a size 14, the experience of trying on bridal gown samples can be tricky and is part of the casual weight shaming that has become commonplace in wedding culture.
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