How did Hayley Hasselhoff make history?
HAYLEY Hasselhoff is one of Hollywood actor David Hasselhoff’s two daughters. She recently made a splash in the media after it was announced she made history with Playboy magazine. How did Hayley Hasselhoff make history? Hayley has become the first plus-size model to grace Playboy. She will feature on the cover of Playboy Germany’s May […]
HAYLEY Hasselhoff is one of Hollywood actor David Hasselhoff’s two daughters.
She recently made a splash in the media after it was announced she made history with Playboy magazine.
How did Hayley Hasselhoff make history?
Hayley has become the first plus-size model to grace Playboy.
She will feature on the cover of Playboy Germany’s May issue.
“I think it’s very empowering,” Hayley, 28, said on ITV’s Lorraine in the UK. “To be asked to do something like this when we’re all worried about our own self-image, it’s a revolution.”
“It was a great honor, and it’s a message for curvy women: to know they are wanted and desired,” she said.
The cover was shot by legendary photographer Ellen von Unwerth in Paris. Reportedly, she was asked to bring her own lingerie to the shoot as the team couldn’t source underwear for her US 12-14 frame.
Although she said she was “initially apprehensive” about the shoot, the team pulled off “tasteless topless” photos.
“It was one of those moments where you have a thought bubble and that apprehensiveness,” she recalled. “But then that positive thought came back in and said, ‘Hold on a second. That’s the whole reason you’re here today.’”
Hayley’s goal is to inspire plus-size people, which she says is important since there’s been a recent lockdown-sparked obesity spike.
“I get to make this movement for curve women during a global pandemic and let them know they have every right to celebrate their bodies,” she said.
What has she said about her body?
In 2019, Hayley opened up about her relationship with her body.
She told Superdrug’s Dare Magazine that after she began modelling aged 14, she became an advocate for beauty coming in “all shapes and sizes”.
Since the the launch of her modelling career as a teenager, Hayley said it’s been a “continuous journey”, and she has “good body days and bad body days”.
She said: “I never like to use the word confident when I talk about my body.
“I use the word ‘connected’ because I feel I’m very connected to my being, my self-worth and self-love, so if I’m having a bad body day, I can change my mindset, remember who I am and that my body doesn’t define me.”
She added people often have a preconception about what we should look like, when it’s what we “feel like” which should matter.
After being a “voice” for plus-size fashion growing up, Hayley praised brands for catering for more sizes now, saying the shift was a long time coming.
What did people say about her Playboy shoot?
Fans of Hayley took to social media to praise her for her achievement.
“Let’s hear it for the curvy woman. Hayley Hasselhoff is beautiful. Give me her over a matchstick with hair any day,” one person wrote on Twitter.
“ARE YOU KIDDING MEEEEE
,” another said in her Instagram comments.
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“YESSS HAYLEYYYYY SMASHING IT,” one similarly wrote.
“My love…that face, that body, that glow! 
@playboygermany have found themselves a true gem,” another comment began.
“For for all the right reasons, this is so incredibly important…but mainly because the world will get to see your inner beauty shine through.”