The supermodel sisters and May cover stars talk about representation and embracing their culture ✨
“There’s a lot of toxicity in the culture that I didn’t like,” Natalie adds. “For years I felt I didn’t want to be Asian because I didn’t want to be put in a box, like I have to be really small and petite and I have to be subservient and put my head down,” she says about the stereotypical Asian woman misnomer. Then one day, her grandmother, who had finished writing her autobiography, asked Natalie to read it to her out loud.
Yumi calls it a game of catch-up. She’s been taking Japanese lessons from an older man over Zoom, who creates educational Powerpoint presentations illustrated with photos of his cat. They spent the early days of the pandemic building even deeper bonds with their mother’s family, holing up at their uncle Steve’s house for mini mindfulness retreats. This summer, the girls will head to Japan for a 10-day trip with their family to attend an annual boat race in their late grandfather’s name.
This change of mindset coincided for Yumi with a general self-awakening that occurred in 2016. “Even with my body, I was like, I’m so tired of not liking myself or waiting to be thinner, waiting to look a certain way to be happy with myself, so I just started embracing all sides of myself,” she says. She credits social media, which she describes as “a double-edged sword,” for helping her find perspective.
When Yumi began focusing on her modeling career in high school, the plus industry “wasn’t even a thing,” she says. “It was either you’re a size 14, the sample size for plus, or you’re a size 2, or you don’t work. My career was such a slow snowball.” To be the first Asian plus model featured in, she was moving into her house in Silver Lake when her agent gave her the call; she sat on the floor in disbelief and burst into tears.
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