Ashley Graham On Posing Nude: “I Have One Rule, I Won’t Show Bush!”

Celebrities are rarely as full of life or as refreshingly unguarded as Ashley Graham. In a VERY up close and personal thirty minute interview with the most famous curve model in the world we managed to cover subjects as wide ranging as: her bush (her words, not mine!), Trump and how she met her husband during ‘Porn Sundays’ at her local church, but more on that later…

What strikes me the most about Ashley is just how comfortable in her own skin she genuinely seems to be. What you imagine Ashley Graham to be like is exactly what you get in real life, making her the perfect ambassador for Italian label, Marina Rinaldi, a brand that aims to empower women of all shapes and sizes.

She's the ultimate qween of empowerment so I wanted to find out just what would Ashley do? Move over Beyonce…

What would Ashley... tell a new model asking for advice on posing naked?

"You have to do what you feel comfortable with. My rule is I don’t show bush! It’s your body and you dictate, not other people."

What would Ashley... teach women in feminist school?

"I would teach women that we need men in order to change society and if you continue to compare yourself to other women around you, you are never going to succeed. The moment I stopped comparing myself to other models and asking, ‘I want their career and I want what they have,’ was the moment I became successful."

What would Ashley... tell Donald Trump?

“Oh god! I would say, ‘resign!’ I do like that he blocked Chrissy Teigen and a couple of my friends, too. One of my friends screen grabbed and posted on Instagram, ‘you know you made it when Donald Trump blocks you!’ That is goals!”

What would Ashley... do to a Twitter troll who's getting out of control?

“I like to slam them down, retweet them and let all my fans go in. I always vote that you should send in the army!”

What would Ashley do... if someone told you not to flash two body parts at once?

“Oh I do it all the time! I have no rules for what I flash and what I don’t – it’s all about the legs, it’s about the boobs, it’s about the body!”

What would Ashley do... to help a pal chat up a hot guy?

“I have been married for seven years so I am so out of the game. I am more just like, ‘just tell them that you like them!’ Cut the bullsh*t and be like, ‘Hey, what’s up? I think you are really hot!’ If they don’t come back with, ‘I think you are really hot too,’ then just cut them - we don’t have time for games! Why do you think I got married so young?!”

What would Ashley do... when coming face-to-face with a school bully?

"My mother always taught me to kill people with kindness. It is was it is, I am nice, they are nice and I am sure they are just thinking now, ‘Why was I so mean to her!’”

What would Ashley do... if someone says a woman can’t have it all?

“They're wrong and there are plenty of women as examples who have had it all and continue to have it all.”

What would Ashley do... if she got cat called/wolf whistled in the street?

"I'd say, ‘thank you!’ Or ‘really, really?!?'"

Finally, the one piece of advice Ashley wants us to all live by... #preach

“Just be yourself! Honestly every single day when I post something it’s just in the moment, I don’t retouch it, I don’t think about it. There are no secrets."

Ashley Graham is the face of Marina Rinaldi and the co-designer of the SS18 Denim Capsule Collection. Joshington Hosts is your weekly celebrity vlog hosted by Josh Newis-Smith for InStyle UK.