Georgina Burke prefers not to be called a ‘plus size’ model.
The Australian beauty, who landed a coveted spot in the 2022 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue this month, tells Stellar Magazine that the term is antiquated.
‘If you put labels on anyone – whether it’s age, colour, size, sex – I feel like it’s so outdated’ the 31-year-old said on Saturday.
Old fashioned: Georgina Burke (pictured) prefers not to be called a ‘plus size’ model. The Australian beauty, who landed a coveted spot in the 2022 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue this month, tells Stellar Magazine that the term is antiquated
‘I don’t think I need to be labelled as ‘plus size’. In the beginning, it was an industry term, whereas now, [the industry] is so open and everyone is really coming on board’ she continued.
‘I feel like it has changed from ‘plus size’ to ‘size inclusive’, to ‘curve’, to this, to that. I’m in Sports Illustrated as a model – it’s not, ‘Whatever number plus-size model to be in [the magazine].’
‘It’s like, no, there’s a model in Sports Illustrated! We’ve made huge progress, that’s for sure’ Georgina added.
‘If you put labels on anyone – whether it’s age, colour, size, sex – I feel like it’s so outdated’ the 31-year-old said on Saturday
‘I don’t think I need to be labelled as ‘plus size’. In the beginning, it was an industry term, whereas now, [the industry] is so open and everyone is really coming on board’ she continued
The stunner told The Courier Mail in April that she was bullied as a teen and never felt she was ‘fitting in’.
‘I was a big kid – tall and wide. Kids would call me every name in the book and throw my lunch across the playground,’ she said.
Georgina, who was born in Brisbane and now lives in New York, told the publication that while America is more accepting of curve models, Australia is yet to catch up.
Hard: The stunner told The Courier Mail in April that she was bullied as a teen and never felt she was ‘fitting in’
‘I was a big kid – tall and wide. Kids would call me every name in the book and throw my lunch across the playground,’ she said
Reflecting on being bullied as a teen, Georgina said: ‘It got so bad at primary school that my parents pulled me out to go to a private girls’ high school, but even there I didn’t fit in.
‘By then I was used to being different, so I’d die my hair all sorts of colours. I was always the odd one out.’
The former law student, who has worked with the likes of Bloomingdales and Saks Fifth Avenue, is also known for launching a size-friendly, fully adjustable swimwear range called Burke NYC in 2019.
Read more: In this week’s issue of Stellar Magazine
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