Hunter McGrady is a 28-year-old model and social media influencer who is popular for her stories of her struggles in the modeling industry.
The model has opened about why she was nervous to tell her doctors about being pregnant in an interview with Health. She shared, “Before pregnancy, society kept telling me that my body was unhealthy and that I’d have a hard time getting pregnant or staying pregnant. Every doctor’s appointment, I was so nervous. I’ve become more bold when it comes to my body and doctors. In the past, I’d go in for an earache and they’d say, ‘You should lose weight.’ So, early in my pregnancy, I told my doctor that I didn’t want to discuss my weight unless it became a real issue to me or the baby.”
She continued to discuss how her eating disorder got her anxieties to look at the number of weighing scales saying, “When I’d get on the scale, I’d tell them I didn’t want to know the number. As someone who came from disordered eating, I’ve worked too long and hard to care about what that number is. My doctor was on board with it, and I had a healthy pregnancy until the end, when I got preeclampsia.”
She has also discussed her struggles in her rookie years of getting body shamed by modeling agents and how she needed help mentally to come back stronger and become who she is today. With Health magazine, Hunter has shared, “I’m 6 feet tall, and back then, I was a size 2 and 114 pounds. I was very thin, and I tried to be that thin. I was just like, ‘Let me see how thin I can get.’ I hadn’t even fully gone through puberty yet. I went into agencies, and every single agent kept telling me, ‘You’re great, we love you. If you can just lose a little bit more, we’ll sign you.”
However, she recalled that one time when she was the thinnest she’s ever been and booked a job which affected her mental health badly. She was rejected by that stretchy t-shirt company saying they didn’t realize how big she was and didn’t even gave her an option to try anything on. She remembered how she felt emotionally and dealt with anxiety and depression and admitted getting therapy that changed herself and began to love her body. She said, “Mentally, I knew I needed help. I really had to learn about my body and learn how to nourish it and love it again.”
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The model welcomed her first child with husband Brian Keys in June 2021 and has shared how she tested positive for Covid-19 when she was seven months pregnant. She shared in Model Citizen podcast, “When I was seven months pregnant which no one knows I had COVID. It ended up showing up kind of like a sinus infection. So it was COVID…then I got diagnosed with preeclampsia, then I lost my little brother. Needless to say, pregnancy has been a wild ride.”
The model lost her brother a month before her due date in May 2021 and shared her sentiments on her Instagram writing, “Pregnancy and grieving. Two things you don’t think would ever happen simultaneously. It’s the loss of one life and the gain of another.”
Hunter McGrady Weight Loss Transformation
The plus-size model, Hunter McGrady, had shared her experience shopping for a wedding dress and said, “One of the first questions salespeople asked me was whether I was planning on staying this size for the wedding. It made my heart sink. I walked in feeling confident and dreaming of a dress that was romantic and whimsical, and suddenly all I could think was, ‘Wait a second. Should I lose weight? I even had salespeople say that they could cover certain areas to hide my hips or tummy.”
But she had no plans to change herself for her wedding day and replied to that salesperson saying, “Are you kidding? I want to accentuate my curves!”
Hunter McGrady is known for her beautiful curves and her self confidence that broke the barriers in the plus-size modelling industry. But she had to learn the hard way of accepting herself from all the rejections she faced. At first, she worked harder to lose weight to fit into the standards and soon realized her body was not changing and when she was 18 years old she consulted a nutritionist and changed her diet and exercise routines to have a healthier weight for her body. After that she signed with Wilhelmina Models and went on to work with famous brands like Lucky Brand, Bare Necessities, Lane Bryant, Torrid, Nordstorm, Forever 21 and many more.
She gained more recognition after she became the curviest model to star in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue for 2017, 2018 and 2019. She has a following of 716K on her Instagram. Her height is 5ft11 inches and has weight of 108 kg. her body measurement are 45-38-52 which makes her perfect for any kind of photoshoot.