An Ontario model is making history as the first queer plus-size Sports Illustrated rookie.
, Ont.-born model and former Glamour fashion editor penned an essay coming out to the world on April 19.
“I spent my career representing and working for women who looked like me, based on my body, and I was really ready for a chapter in which I got to celebrate us for who we are on the inside as well,” Chan told CTV News Toronto on Thursday. Without basketball, Chan had newfound time to religiously follow fashion blogs. One day, she came across an open call for plus-size models at an agency in New York. She got in the car with her dad, drove south of the border, and was signed the same day.While in New York, at 25, she was hired at“It was all very in-line with my personal mission of making our readers who had felt excluded from fashion because of their size feel equal and elevated,” she said.
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