</a> <br /><p>You've seen Hunter McGrady everywhere - the 23-year-old model has been named the "curviest" model to grace Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue. (Those body paint</a> photos aren't easy to forget. Hubba hubba!) Hunter started modeling at 16, coming from a long lineage of models in her family - her mother, grandmother, and aunt were models; her father is an actor. But after being told she was too big at a size two, she took a hiatus from the industry for a few years. She's now a part of Wilhelmina International's Curve division</a> and has appeared in campaigns for Lane Bryant. </p><br /><p>Being a plus-size model has its challenges, first being the term "plus-size," according to Hunter. </p><br /><p>"A size six, in New York, on a modeling board, would be considered plus-size. Fourteen is what really works in the plus-size industry, but it starts at six; I mean, that's insane," Hunter said. It's problematic that "regular sizes" are limited to zero, two, and four, especially when research shows that 67 percent of women in America are size 16-18</a>. "That's 17 percent more than half the population," Hunter reiterated. "So why is it just now becoming such a big thing?" </p><br /><p>The term "plus-size" also has a connotation that Hunter feels separates her from other models, when the reality is the only difference is her size. "I would love to just be called a model. I think that labeling plus-size, curve, full-figure, whatever it is . . . I understand that some people need that clarification," Hunter said. "For me, I'm just a model. I show up, I do the same job as everyone else, I get paid the same, everything is the same. You wouldn't say, 'size zero model so-and-so.'" </p><br /> <p>Related: 29 Photos That Prove Hunter McGrady Is One Bodacious Lady</a></p><br /><br /><p>Further, people tend to think being a curve model means having fewer restrictions or, according to some of the comments</a> on a version of this video that appeared on Facebook, that curve models are "unhealthy." </p><br /><p>"I think people think that we can get away with looking however we want. They're like, 'Whatever, she's a curve model. She doesn't have to work out, she doesn't have to eat well.' Which isn't true. I have a personal trainer, I eat clean. But on the other spectrum, there is a pressure to have the Coke bottle body, to be really tight. Someone's always going to want you to be thicker," Hunter said.</p><br />
