Plus-size model doesn't have time for haters

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.