During an appearance on Sunday’s episode ofWatch What Happens Live, the supermodel, 46, revealed that she has never washed the brown strapless one-piece and stores it in an archive.
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“Oh my gosh it is totally in an archive,” she told hostAndy Cohen. “Oh my god, it is so there. And it still has like the oil and the sand in it. Like I did not wash it. I’m like, ‘It’s gonna stay stank and real’…I have a good archive.”
Banks’ famous on-air clap-back came after paparazzi snapped unflattering photos of the supermodel wearing the same brown and stripped one-piece on the beach.
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Months later, Banksgraced the cover of PEOPLE, where she opened up about her buzzed-about weight gain and the public’s reaction.
“I get so much mail from young girls who say, ‘I look up to you, you’re not as skinny as everyone else, I think you’re beautiful,’” she said. “So when they say that my body is ‘ugly’ and ‘disgusting,’ what does that make those girls feel like?”
“I still feel hot, but every day is different,” Banks told PEOPLE at the time. “It’s when I put on the jeans that used to fit a year ago and don’t fit now and give me the muffin top, that’s when I say, ‘Damn!’ ”
The model-turned-mogul (who was the first black woman to grace the cover ofSports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Editionsolo) has since emerged as a body positive activist and role model — and alsolanded her thirdSI Swimcoverlast May.
“What I’m hoping for is that the Ashley Graham‘s, theGigi Hadid‘s, everyone is just models. Not plus, not short, not trans, not curvy. I just want it to be normal,” the formerAmerica’s Next Top Modelhost said in 2018. Speaking about therecent increase in diversity and inclusion in fashion, Banks added, “I’m happy that the fashion industry is finally catching up.”
source: people.com
