Many people are working as models in the plus-size fashion industry, modelling the styles that inspire or are created by the likes of Bonmarche. Nonetheless, one model has claimed that the definition “plus-size” has a negative connotation that ought to be cast aside.

Scottish model Angelica Gray spoke to the Daily Record about the industry. The catwalk star, who used to be a size eight, has said she now feels much more comfortable as a size 14. She has since been seen in Italian Vogue and claimed that she feels like she represents a “more realistic image of women”.

However, she questioned how people like herself were portrayed by the fashion community. “It would be nice if it wasn’t called plus size,” she said. “It’s a positive term to me because even as a 12 I’d be double the size of a mainstream model. But as fashion perhaps becomes more inclusive, models become models and there isn’t the size requirement that there has been for a number of years now.”

She added that women “come in all shapes and sizes” and that it simply wasn’t fair that any one body shape could be deemed more beautiful or capable in advertising.