Ashley Graham Strips Down for First Maxim Cover

Model gets naked for the April issue

By Kendall Fisher Mar 28, 2016 5:12 PMTags
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Ashley Graham continues to break down even more barriers!

The 28-year-old model landed her first cover for Maxim magazine, taking on the April issue by stripping down completely nude with just a shirt hiding her lady parts.

Inside the publication, she poses in some sexy lace lingerie, revealing all her curves as she gives the photographer (Gilles Bensimon) a sultry stare and proves just why she's one of the top models of the moment.

In fact, Graham opened up about how she's using her modeling success as the platform on which she's building her empire.

"I know these celebrity entrepreneurs are just people," she told the publication. "They've just been given the right opportunities and have soared with them. And that's what I'm trying to do. I'm in total build-the-empire mode right now."

Graham even surprised herself with one of her most recent successes: walking the the runway during the H&M Studios Autumn/Winter 2016 show for Paris Fashion Week in early March.

She told to E! News that it was her "first major show" because it's "not considered a plus-size show only." She added, "I'm in it with the big dogs."

Sports Illustrated

Before that, she continued helping redefine the depiction of a "model body" by becoming one of three cover girls for Sports Illustrated 2016 Swimsuit Edition.

She told E! News at the time: "I hate the word 'real woman' and I hate the word 'plus-size.' I've got plenty of friends [of all sizes] and different shapes and everything, and I don't want any of them to feel like they aren't 'real women.'"

You go, girl!

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