About Katie Willcox
Katie H. Willcox is the founder and CEO of Natural Model Management and Healthy is the New Skinny. Using her 15 years of experience in the modeling industry as a curve model, Willcox strives to change the game of self-love by approaching the topic of body image from an intellectual viewpoint vs. an irrational and emotional one. By breaking down the "skinny" beauty ideal and exposing its origins, agenda, and harmful effect it is having on society, Katie empowers people to choose their health over the beauty ideal implemented by the media, and provides the tools needed to create lasting change.
Small Town Girl
Katie grew up in Casper Wyoming and moved to Spokane Washington her sophomore year of high school. Katie played competitive volleyball and basketball starting in the 6th grade and was scouted for plus size modeling during her junior year of high school while traveling for a volleyball tournament. After booking her first modeling job from her first polaroid-photo taken at the modeling agency, Katie moved to New York City to pursue her modeling career and attend The School of Visual Arts for painting and drawing. In 2011 Katie created Healthy is the new Skinny and Natural Model Management in efforts to change the modeling industry and the consumers who are affected by media messaging for the better.
True
Words cannot describe the amount of love I have for my daughter. I look at her and see nothing but a shining light of love and goodness that I want nothing more than to protect forever. People often ask me, how do you plan to teach your daughter about body-image and self-love? I always laugh because they have it backward! Each day True teaches me about joy, happiness, and authentic self-love. I have come to realize that self-love is natural to who we are and self-loathing is a learned behavior. We don't have to learn how to love ourselves.... we know how. Our task now is to challenge the culture that benefits from our self-loathing.
