![]() ![]() Her then-agent warned her that despite the Sports Illustrated success, her client list would evaporate overnight if she didn't abide by their rules. Mcgrady stood firm in her stance on body acceptance, refusing to lose weight or shrink down to fit an ideal as she first felt pressured to at 16. The industry just wasn't ready for her excellence quite yet. Signing with a major agency soon after, it all suddenly made sense: McGrady hadn't abandoned modeling at 16 out of fear of failure. "I saw it and thought, 'These are the three most beautiful women I've ever seen in my entire life, and they actually look like me.'" That moment remains ingrained in McGrady's memory to this day: "I can tell you what I was wearing, where I was sitting, what I was thinking - everything." It opened her eyes to the world of plus‑size modeling, and the potential available for a woman with a larger, growing frame. All of that changed when, a few years later, she'd come across Vogue Italia's legendary curve issue. With modeling on the back burner, teenage McGrady assumed a nannying job as she rethought ways to tackle the world of entertainment and fashion. "I was led to believe that being too big was the worst thing ever." Little did she know that a decade later, she'd become Sports Illustrated's curviest model to ever grace the pages of its Swimsuit issue. Or rather, that she was too much and needed to shrink down to a double-zero before being worthy of the camera. But time and time again, from casting agents and industry insiders, McGrady was told that she was not enough. ![]() At 16, she felt fully prepared to follow in the footsteps of her mother, Brynja, who had previously reached a level of success in the modeling world. They said, 'Wow, we didn't realize how big you were.'" Hunter was a size two. "I showed up on set to a T‑shirt job," she recalls, "and the casting team stood up, looked at me kind of sideways, and turned me away. Hunter McGrady will never forget the moment she first quit modeling. ![]()
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