Adwoa Aboah was alarmed by how thin her fellow models seemed after she had her daughter.
The 33-year-old model took a break from her career after she and partner Daniel Wheatley welcomed daughter Shy into the world in August 2024 and she's suggested she delayed her return to the spotlight because she knew her body "could never" match the ideal that is currently on trend.
She told The Observer newspaper: “It’s one thing fitting back into your own clothes.
"It’s another thing watching the landscape of fashion be so thin that you’re like, my body could never be this. Everyone was like, when are you going to come back to work? It’s like, babe, I don’t know!”
Becoming a mother has given Adwoa a new perspective on modelling and when people grew fixated on her own weight loss, she realised the fashion world had grown less important to her.
She said: “I went to London Fashion Week in September and it was wonderful, and I was really happy to be back in the mix. But all anyone could talk about was the weight I’ve lost… I just have to let it go.
"I know how to do my job. I’m respected, I have a community of people who like me for more than how much weight I’ve lost. I have so much self-worth away from what magazine covers I’ve been on.”
The Veil co-founder thinks there needs to be more "curve girls" on the runway but is unsure if public figures who have lost "insane amounts of weight" need to talk about it.
She said: “We’ve just got to, I suppose, keep on f****** plodding along, screaming from the top of our lungs. Like, what curve girls do we see in the shows? Obviously there’s P [Paloma Elsesser], but it’s changing… Everyone is very thin.
“What do you think? Do you think if we’re seeing people who once spoke quite openly about body positivity lose insane amounts of weight, do you think there needs to be a conversation about that? Do you think they owe their community or the public? Or do you think we’re asking too much?”
