Ashley Graham proudly showed off her stretch marks in a lingerie snap she posted to Instagram from her latest Paris Fashion Week.
The 36-year-old model shares three sons with her longtime husband Justin Ervin – four-year-old Isaac and two-year-old twins Roman and Malachi.
Since becoming a mother of three, she has candidly discussed feeling initially insecure about her stretch marks before overcoming her misgivings.
Now, in a new album posted this week, the body positivity figurehead showed off her confidence, flaunting her figure in a set of revealing underwear.
In the post, she also treated her fans to a few glimpses of the glamorous lifestyle she enjoyed while visiting France for the latest runway shows.
Ashley Graham proudly showed off her stretch marks in a lingerie snap she posted to Instagram from her latest Paris Fashion Week
Her outfits that week included a shimmery gold Altein dress, as well as a bubblegum Karoline Vitto gown with a crimson train.
Decked out in a lacy silver outfit, she snapped a selfie with her friend, the fashion designer Alice Vaillant, backstage at the latter’s show.
Work was heavily featured in the post, with Ashley posted a photo and video from her job walking the Vaillaint show in ‘Look 49’.
She also posted a couple of snaps of the spacious flat she rented on Airbnb, showing off its expansive square footage and picturesque balcony.
Her culinary delights were also included in the album – she could be seen enjoying a glass of red wine as well as a burger during her restaurant excursions.
Ashley has been frank about her evolving feelings about her stretch marks, in an eye-opening essay she she wrote for Glamour not long after the birth of her twins.
While pregnant with Isaac, she ‘got a few stretch marks, and I had a few really good cry sessions over the stretch marks,’ she recalled.
Two years later, when she was 30 weeks pregnant with the twins, ‘the stretch marks started to creep up,’ and she began trying to reassure herself.
The 36-year-old model shares three sons with her longtime husband Justin Ervin – four-year-old Isaac and two-year-old twins Roman and Malachi; pictured Thanksgiving 2022
In her new post, she also treated her fans to a few glimpses of the glamorous lifestyle she enjoyed while visiting France for the latest runway shows
Her outfits that week included a shimmery gold Altein dress (left), as well as a bubblegum Karoline Vitto gown with a crimson train (right)
Decked out in a lacy silver outfit, she snapped a selfie with her friend, the fashion designer Alice Vaillant, backstage at the latter’s show
Work was heavily featured in the post, with Ashley posted a photo and video from her job walking the Vaillaint show in ‘Look 49’
She also posted a couple of snaps of the spacious flat she rented on Airbnb, showing off its expansive square footage and picturesque balcony
Her culinary delights were also included in the album – she could be seen enjoying a glass of red wine as well as a burger during her restaurant excursions
While she was pregnant with twins, she posted this Instagram photo, under which her husband commented that her ‘stretch marks look like the tree of life’
‘I thought to myself, Okay, Ashley, you can handle this. You already had a few, this is life. You are a champion for all kinds of bodies, who cares? This is going to be a great moment. You can share this with other women, it’s fantastic,’ Ashley wrote.
‘But then they started creeping up even more, and you could see them coming out of my panty line, and then beyond my belly button, and I melted,’ she confessed.
‘I talked about it with my midwives. I talked about it with Justin. I was bringing it up constantly to my team. I was like: “You don’t understand. I used to be a sex symbol, and now I am a baby-making machine and I have stretch marks up to my belly button. What the eff is happening?”
She recalled: ‘Then one day I just stopped and thought, Screw it, this is my life, and I posted a photo of my stretch marks on Instagram, which that day my husband described to me as looking like the tree of life. Bless him.’
