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L iris Crosse has been blazing trails in the modeling industry ever since she set foot on the runway. And with her new book Make the World Your Runway , Liris is hoping to share her own confidence to women of all shapes and sizes. Ahead of her busy schedule at fashion week, Grok Nation caught up with Liris to learn more about how she got her start, how the industry still needs to change, and why she felt it was important to write this book.

They all loved me, but they wanted me to lose weight. That was my junior year of high school. I went back to Baltimore, tried to do crazy diets. I did lose some weight, but I went back to the convention again, and I got even less call backs. When I graduated high school, I was all enrolled to start college. What work are you most proud of throughout your career?

I have done campaigns for Lane Bryant and Ashley Stewart.

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I became the first black plus model to walk a designer finale for Project Runway in season And then I became one of the first plus models to win the modeling portion of Project Runway , in season I have been able to appear in all types of magazines from American Vogue , to Essence , to Vibe. What do you think has brought about this much-needed change?

I am gonna say because of social media.