Plus Size Celebrities

Ashley Graham – Plus Size Model
Ashley Graham is a beautiful and successful plus size model hailing from Lincoln, Nebraska. She is a model with Ford Agency and can be see posing for various plus size clothing stores including Lane Bryant and Kiyonna. She is perhaps mostly known for being the model in the Lane Bryant lingerie TV commercial which FOX and ABC banned, rejected and initially refusing to air. They claimed the advert showed too much skin!

Gabourey Sidibe
Gabourey Sidibe, also known as Gabby, is an actress hailing from New York City. She rose to fame in 2010 for the leading role she played in the movie Precious which is based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire. For this role Gabourey received rave reviews, many accolades and was also nomination in the 2010 Academy Awards for the Best Actress award.

Kim Coles
Kim Coles is an actress, comedian, host and author who is best known for her roles in ‘In Living Color’ and ‘Living Single’. Kim has recently just launch a program called G.I.F.T.S through which Kim wants to teach every one of us to identify the gifts we have inside of us, in order to appreciate these, share them with each other and in doing so, live a more joyful life.

Kirsten Vangsness
Kirsten Vangness is an actress best known for her role as FBI Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia, in the hit drama series Criminal Minds. Kirsten is also an acclaimed writer, and her work has been published in the Los Angeles Times Magazine.

Amber Riley
An American actress an singer Amber Riley is best know for her role as Mercedes in the hit TV series Glee. Besides being a multi-talented actress, Amber is also a very positive role model to young girls and is super stylish.

Nancy Baum of Cherished-Woman.com Interviewed
Successful plus size model Nancy Baum, turned enterpreneur is the founder of the frest and chic new online plus size clothing store Cherished-Woman.com. Nancy recently met up with Pasazz.net to discuss her career, Cherished-Woman.com and what’s in store for this unique plus size store.

Anna Nicole of jahQoi Interviewed
One of the leading plus size clothing designers, Anna Nicole is interviewed once again by Pasazz.net. This time Anna Nicole gives us an update on her buzzing and exciting curvy fashion line, jahQoi.

Kathy Najimy
Kathy Najimy is a popular actress and activist, mostly famous for her roles in Sister Act and the television series, Veronica’s Closet. She is also very vocal about issues close to her heart including weight acceptance and body image. Read more about Kathy!

Charlotte Coyle
Charlotte Coyle is a leading plus size model, who has a very promising career ahead of her. Charlotte has graced the websites of various plus size clothing store, including Torrid.com.

Phyllis Librach: Sydney’s Closet Founder
In July Pasazz.net had the pleasure of speaking with Sydney’s Closet founder Phyllis Librach, who spoke about what inspires her and what’s in store for Sydney’s Closet in the near future.

Yuliya Zeltser, designer and founder of IGIGI
Yuliya, the lady behind the classy plus size clothing label IGIGI, is interviewed exclusively by Pasazz.net. In this interview Yuyila reveals what inspired her to start creating beautiful clothing for full-figured women.

Monif J. Clarke co-founder of Monif C. Plus Sizes
The designer and co-founder of Monif C. Plus Sizes, a fashion label which is creating a stir in the curvy fashion industry. In this exclusive interview Monif speaks about her childhood, her love for fashion and most of all her love for life.

Janelle Jackson of BigGalsLingerie.com
Janelle Jackson, the woman behind sexy plus size lingerie store Big Gals Lingerie, is interviewed on Pasazz.net. JJ strives to provide full figure women with sexy and raunchy lingerie.

Anna Nicole of Jahqoi Inc., and ANR Apparel
Ladies, meet Anna Nicole, a plus size clothing designer who launched her line ANR Apparel online in 2004. Earlier this year Anna founded Jahqoi, Inc, which now serves as the parent corporation of ANR Apparel.

Kirstie Alley
Kirstie Alley, who was born in Wichita, Kansas, is an American actress. She rose to prominence in her 1987-1993 role as the neurotic corporate executive Rebecca Howe on hit TV sitcom Cheers.

Emme
Emme: supermodel, television host, best-selling author, lecturer and clothing designer; she was selected twice by People Magazone as one of the “50 Most Beautiful People.”

Toccara Jones
Toccara is no stranger to reality television. America’s Next Top Model put Toccara Jones on the map; She a very positive outlook on life and dreams of becoming the world’s first superstar plus-size model.

Delta Burke
Best known for her five-year stint as Suzanne Sugarbaker in CBS’s Designing Women, Delta describes herself as a “beautiful, curvy woman”. She started designing fashions for herself during…

Chenese Lewis Interviewed
Whilst busy keeping up with modelling, acting and promoting the Love Your Body! Wristband project, Chenese took some time out to speak to Pasazz.net about life, work and ice-cream!

Queen Latifah
Dana Elaine Owens, 18 March 1970, East Orange, New Jersey, USA. Rap’s first lady, Queen Latifah, broke through in the late 80s with a style that picked selectively from jazz and soul traditions.

Mo’nique
Mo’nique began her career in her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, when she took to the stage for the first time on a dare from her brother and received a standing ovation.

Roseanne Barr
Roseanne was made famous in the early 1980s with her stand-up comedy routine, which received significant critical acclaim for its unglamorized portrayal of the typical US middle-class housewife.

Camryn Manheim
She won a Best Supporting Actress Emmy for her role as lawyer Ellenor Frutt on David E. Kelley’s acclaimed law drama ‘The Practice’. Hoisting her award in the air and exuberantly declaring, “This is for all the fat girls!”.

Rosie O’Donnell
Rosie O’Donnell is one of the more unlikely Hollywood success stories. But, as she says, “There’s no map to success in this industry — you have to take a knife and hack your way through the jungle.”

Mae West
Mae West started performing in vaudeville at the age of five. By the time she was twelve she was doing burlesque under the name “The Baby Vamp.” Though she had not yet grown into her generous curves, the slinky, dark-haired Mae was already raising eyebrows with a lascivious “shimmy” dance.

Jill Scott
Jill Scott was raised and lives in north Philadelphia, the big city that feels like a town. She remembers her grandmother “taking a bath at five o’clock every morning, and you would hear this real back-porch hum…”

Dawn French
“Everything my parents did, they did with such love and such care…. It was my father who taught me to value myself”, she says proudly. “He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.”

Lillian Russell
Stage actress Lillian Russell is an ideal beauty at about 200 pounds. She first appeared in light opera in 1879, but didn’t achieve stardom until 1899. She was noted for her flamboyant personality and for her love of jewelry.

Barbara Brickner
Barbara’s work with Eddie Bauer, Lands End, Nordstrom and Elena Miro (Italy) shows she is proud to be part of the ever-changing industry of plus size modeling.