Thank you so much for letting me be a part of Fearless.
Yeah, Fearless is fantastic.
Thank you.
Really, really good.
You're so good and so natural.
Thank you.
First of all, thank you for having me.
That was an incredible moment to be
able to just have the honor to come onto the show
and to be the host of it.
There's so much happening with these people
and how their lives are being transformed.
We're bringing confidence to them
to bring them to the next step, having hard conversations.
And it's an amazing ride.
Yeah, well, I mean, you've got some amazing people on there.
I want to talk about that more in a minute.
But the fact that you have accomplished
so much, and this all kind of came
from you being a model, which you didn't even
want to be a model.
I know what I wanted to be.
What did you want to be?
I told my mom that I wanted to be a cab driver growing up,
because I was so obsessed with Sesame Street.
So because I was so obsessed with Sesame Street,
I was like, Mom, this is what's happening.
I'm going to be a cab driver.
And then someone told me--
I had an ah-ha moment.
I made it to New York City where there's cab drivers everywhere.
So it was kind of like a two-fold.
Mom, I made it to New York.
I'm not a cab driver.
But I get a Yellow Cab almost every day.
Yeah, so you recently met your idol, who is?
Jennifer Lopez.
And you went to go see her.
Yes.
You guys, you have idea how this went down.
OK so I got invited to her after party after her concert,
her last concert in Vegas.
And of course, I went to the after party.
And I wanted to meet her oh-so badly.
So I waited up really late.
Because I'm not a night person.
I'm a morning girl.
But I was like, I'm going to meet J-Lo.
and I broke a cardinal rule.
I don't like it when people come up to me while I'm eating.
And I don't want to go up to a celebrity when they're eating.
But she was eating.
And it was late.
And I needed to go.
So I went up and sat next to her while she
was eating next to A-Rod.
And I just said, hi, I'm Ashley Graham.
It's so nice to meet you.
Thank you so much for having me tonight.
And she goes, oh, hi, it's nice to meet you.
I said, first of all, I have a podcast.
It's called Pretty Big Deal.
And actually, Kim Kardashian was just on it.
And we were talking about you.
And how you've just been body goals for us.
Because I'm a curvy girl.
You're a curvy girl.
She's a curvy girl.
So, hi, would you like to be on it?
Oh, can we take a selfie?
And then, click, click, click.
And she was like, just have fun, have fun tonight.
And I was like, I'm going to!
Thank you!
Oh, my god!
You went from not wanting to bother her to bothering
her beyond what you ever--
Yes!
She's from the block.
Don't be fooled from the rocks that she's got.
All right, so Fearless is about-- we
talked about it for a minute.
But explain.
So it's about people, you helping
them overcome experience.
Yes.
So what Fearless really is is about giving people confidence
to take that next step in their life where
they haven't been able to get.
It's about having hard conversations.
And I thought it was really a part of who I am.
Because I want to build up self-esteem in people,
regardless if it's on the exterior or the interior.
And we've got to talk to a single mom, a single father
who's just looking for love, a young boy who wanted
to come out to his family.
And there was even a young girl who had self-esteem issues.
And we gave her a fashion show.
So there's just so many different experiences
that a lot of people want to go through,
but just don't know how to take that next step.
And that's what Fearless is about.
And, really, it's done so well.
And you're so good in it.
I mean, you really are.
You're just a natural on camera.
And just because you are so real.
I mean, do you consider yourself fearless?
Do you do you think you are?
I think I am.
I mean, with every step that I've taken in my career,
I've been fearless.
With love, I've been fearless.
With my voice, and activism, and using my body
to change an industry, I've been fearless.
So, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I think you're--
I--
Argh--
[SCREAMING]
[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE]
I think I peed a little.
Then we did it right oh right.
All right, as long as you peed a little.
You can watch Fearless on EllenTube now.
New episodes are available on Wednesdays.
It's fantastic.
You should watch it.
As we go to break, we'll see what happened here.
We'll be back.