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Katie H. Willcox
Katie H. Willcox is an international model, body-image activist, and founder and CEO of the modeling agency Natural Model Management, Inc., (for healthy models between “straight” and “plus” sizes). She is also founder of Healthy Is the New Skinny. Willcox is considered one of the top body positive influencers by MTV, People Magazine, Marie Claire to name a few, and has devoted her life to changing the game of body image and spreading the message of redefining self worth.

Career
In 2011, Healthy is the New Skinny (HNS) began as a blog found by Willcox. Since its incarnation, HNS has developed into a brand and social media movement that is now considered to be one of the top platforms for body positivity. With a reach of over 325K across the web, HNS is dedicated to spreading positivity and promoting an all-inclusive idea of health and wellness for people across the world. She has hosted a series of presentations and workshops at college campuses, high schools, middles schools, and female empowerment events across the country. She provides an engaging one-hour multimedia presentation titled "Re-model Me" that covers the effects of media manipulation, a brief history of media advertising, how the beauty industry exploits our insecurities to sell products, and the distortion of health and the “beauty ideal” in the industry. Each presentation is tailored specifically for her audience and is suitable for girls, boys, men, and women of all ages.HNS has been featured in a variety of publications including: Fox News, People Magazine, and the New York Post. Willcox also opened Natural Model Management for models like herself who wanted have a healthy experience in the modeling industry. Willcox was her only model when they opened and she hit the streets to discover new models for her agency. Not only did she find girls off the street, she personally taught them how to model. Within the first year she had models making six figures in bookings. Today Natural Model Management has the best talent roster for the curve industry on the West Coast and their models are booking jobs around the United States and world.

In Dec 2017, Willcox made her debut as an author,when she wrote her first book Healthy is the new Skinny Willcox offers a breakthrough approach to healthy body image by exposing the harmful media messaging set in place by the fashion and beauty industries. Willcox shares personal stories and experiences as a "plus size" model, girl boss, and overall flawed human being in a perfection-obsessed society. With each chapter, Willcox tackles issues surrounding the topic of body image and helps pave the road of self-love for future generations of women to come.