Model does Elle magazine, offers an insight into her life so far

Jul 31, 2014 17:13 GMT  ·  By

Kate Upton is perhaps one of the biggest models right now and her popularity isn’t due entirely to her good looks, though she is definitely not lacking in this department. Unlike most high-fashion models, Kate is curvy and this is the main reason she managed to get people’s attention.

Blessed with a figure that most women would kill to have (or so they say), Kate has been working hard to build a career, after she was discovered in a YouTube viral, which you will find embedded below. Her gorgeous face and her winning personality have also helped her a lot along the way, and she’s even broken into film as of late.

Still, she tells Elle magazine, being pretty didn’t always work in her favor.

In a classic case of “woe is me,” Kate explains for the magazine that beauty isn’t a winning lottery ticket that brings you everything you want in life. She knows that first-hand.

“Living on a farm, beauty doesn’t get you anywhere. Because I was pretty didn’t mean I could convince my sister to do my chores. It was kind of inconvenient to be pretty, growing up,” she says.

Celebrity pundits see this comment from her as a classic case of humblebrag, when you intentionally attempt to brag about something while feigning humility. Hearing a model, i.e. someone who makes a living off their good looks, say that beauty can be an “inconvenience,” no matter the context, just feels out of place.

In the rest of the interview, Kate is her usual sunny and cute self. She talks about the rise of the curvy model and how amazed she is to have made such a splash as one when, back home in Florida, this is the only type of beauty that is widely embraced.

“When I first started modelling, I was a normal catalogue model. Then, I became a woman, and I was really excited about becoming a woman. Because I’m from Florida, it’s all about being in bathing suits. It’s a different view of beauty there. You are ugly if you don’t have a curvy body. And I didn’t have one, and then I got one, and thought, ‘Yessss!’,” she says.

She’s still shocked when people get to know her and they eventually exclaim “Oh, wow, you’re healthy!,” as if they expected her to be grossly overweight just because she’s a curvy model, and dealing with health issues that come with obesity.

All this aside, here is Kate being cute at the games, the video that helped her to become the star she is today. Enjoy!