Baring it all for the ‘gram! Ashley Graham left little to the imagination when she shared a nude mirror photo of herself on January 5, along with a pregnancy update.
“Still cooking, folks,” she captioned the stunning black and white selfie. However, she won’t be cooking for long! The mom-to-be is due any day now. Though she’s currently nine months pregnant, she still engages in physical activity. The model —who’s expecting her first child with husband Justin Ervin — recently went on a “power waddle walk” and documented it on Instagram on January 3.
“I’m telling you guys, I’m gonna walk this kid out of me,” she said in one of the Insta clips as she walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. “I’m walking him out of me. It’s going to be 2.5 miles all the way home. I love my city.”
Exercise has always been an important thing for the curvy model. Throughout her pregnancy, she’s shared videos of herself working out. However, she’s also indulging. It’s all about balance, right? Ash recently revealed she gained 50 pounds, and she’s staying positive about all the changes her body has gone through while carrying her son.
“The best part is, I don’t care!” she captioned an IG post shared in December. “I have never felt better, and I am so thankful that my body and son have allowed me to be as mobile and flexible as I have been. Between working out, yoga, acupuncture and lymphatic massages — I finally feel like I figured out this whole pregnancy thing and how to feel my best.”
However, that doesn’t mean everything has been easy for her. In fact, after sharing her first nude photo since announcing her pregnancy in August, Ash felt pretty low.
“I thought I was [going to] feel good … and I didn’t. I just felt terrible,” Ashley confessed in her online video series Fearless in November.
She continued, “That morning actually, I really thought to myself, ‘Get it together, Ashley. There are other women out there who are going through the same thing as you.’ ‘Why don’t you have a dialogue with them? This is a new body that I’m walking into. Why don’t I just put myself out there with this new body?’”
Now, she’s using her platform to empower women and mothers everywhere!