Tabria Majors is quieting the haters, embracing her body, and is a new Sports Illustrated swimsuit superstar.
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00:00Being called brave seems, it just seems a bit overzealous for me.
00:06I don't know if what I would do should be considered brave.
00:10I definitely went through my own personal transformation.
00:21I was never this comfortable with myself when I was in high school or my early college years.
00:28I would always just nitpick at little things that other people probably wouldn't even notice.
00:34And things that people did notice really affected me.
00:46Those are not curves.
00:47That is unwanted and unhealthy body fat which she should reduce to a healthy level.
00:55This girl rode by on her bicycle and she called me a hippo.
00:59I was in a swimsuit.
01:05There just came a time when I didn't want to try and appease others and other people's
01:11opinions stopped mattering because I don't know them.
01:15If someone says something negative about me and I don't know you, why should it affect me?
01:31You're one of the final six!
01:37Being a part of Sports Illustrated is definitely, hands down, the biggest moment of my career
01:44as a model.
01:45It was something I always wanted to speak or tried to speak into existence but I just
01:51never thought that it would happen.
01:59Sometimes being called a role model is overwhelming for me because I fear that any wrong move
02:05or any mistake I make will just be detrimental.
02:10I just want people to realize that I'm human, I make mistakes.
02:18I feel like policemen and firefighters and teachers even, they're the brave ones.
02:23I'm just a girl who is confident in myself and is trying to inspire others to be as well.