Ebony Magazine Releases Stunning New Curvy 'Body Brigade' Cover

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Ebony Magazine Releases Stunning New Curvy 'Body Brigade' Cover

Move over Ashley Graham – there's a new curvy cover in town.

Ebony magazine's March cover features four stunning women – Orange Is the New Black's Danielle Brooks, fashion designer and blogger Gabi Gregg (aka GabiFresh), and singers Jazmine Sullivan and Chrisette Michele – that are proud of their curvy bodies.

And the magazine doesn't hide the squad's powerful quotes inside the issue. Their lines are right on the cover.

"I'm way more than the physical," Michele says.



SO EXCITED I can finally share that I'm on the cover of this month's @ebonymagazine with the gorgeous @jsullivanmusic @daniebb3 and @chrisettemichele!!! I'm so honored to be a part of such an amazing issue Huge thank you to @joannasimkin and @cynthiaglam for hair and makeup! They were EVERYTHING. #EBONYwomenup

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"I'm OK with being seen as 'big' " adds GabiFresh.

"I'm a size 14 in dresses, a 16 in pants," Brooks declares.

It's all part of Ebony's cover story on Black women and their relationship with their bodies.

Go behind the scenes of our powerful March #WomenUp Cover on EBONY.com!

A photo posted by EBONY (@ebonymagazine) on Mar 7, 2016 at 7:18am PST



"What others may think about what we do or don't eat doesn't matter; the greater judgments, regardless of whether they are favorable, come from within," says the writer, Tomika Anderson.

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Brooks has long been open about embracing her body, and how long it took her to find that self-love.

"Being a woman of curves, I really find that it's very important to talk about loving your body where you are," she said during a panel discussion in May. "People's beauty standards [are] something I've definitely struggled with in my life. And I'm just so grateful to be on a show where people love me, Taystee, for who she is – and they've come to love Danielle for who I am, and it's not because I'm a size 2 and it's not because I'm light-skinned with long hair."

Behind the scenes video! Those were THE most uncomfortable heels I've ever worn in my life and you can see my ankles almost snap in half BUT we powered through! The outcome was more than worth it

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And GabiFresh, who just released her own line of bikinis for swimsuitsforall, wants to help other curvy women who have trouble accepting their shape, especially when they hit the beach.

"That's always been my goal, to just make sure that people my size also have really cute options and not just the matronly, traditional things that we've had in the past," she told PEOPLE in January.

"People are just there to have fun with their friends. Once you realize that, it's very freeing and liberating."