When Ashley Graham first started her modeling career, she was followed everywhere by a label she hates: "plus-size model." Defying such regressive pigeonholing, she explains how she stopped devaluing herself and reclaimed her body as her own.

The beauty and health industry is a rapidly growing and highly profitable industry, and yet Americans who are huge consumers of the industry products remain amongst the most unhealthy in the world. What is the disconnect between industry and consumers? How can we cut the umbilical chord that ties us to external remedies and realize that the answ...