Ashley Graham says boyfriends broke up with her because they thought she’d get 'too fat'

Ashley Graham’s ex-boyfriends lost out because they couldn’t handle her weight.

The plus-size model spoke out about body shaming at the Urban Arts Partnership 25th anniversary benefit Thursday and how she can relate to girls going through the same experience.

“Nothing’s actually surprised me. I’ve lived exactly what they’re living. I’ve lived the torment of the names. I’ve lived the torment of boyfriends breaking up with me because they were afraid I was going to be too fat later in life,” she said, according to People.

“It’s the same cycle, it doesn’t matter what generation we are in. Every kid is going to go through the same thing.”

Graham, the first plus-size model to appear on the covers of British and American Vogue and the first size-16 model to land on the cover of a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, has frequently spoken out about accepting all shapes and sizes.

But even she has moments of doubt.

“I wake up sometimes and I think ‘I’m the fattest woman alive’. But it’s really about how you handle it when you wake up,” she said at the benefit.

“I look in the mirror and I have my affirmations. And mine are simple: ‘You are bold. You are brilliant. And you are beautiful.’ And then if my lower pooch is really puffing out that day, I say ‘Lower pooch, you are cute’. And we have a moment. And if the hips are really popping I say ‘I love you too, hips.’”