Ashley Graham Bares All For Her First Maxim Cover [PHOTOS]

Ashley Graham is having herself one good year. The plus-sized model landed her first ever Maxim cover in which she is wearing nothing, hiding her goods with a white button-down shirt.

In 2016, so far, Graham has already been on the cover of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue, starred in a number of empowering ad campaigns, started her own lingerie line and got her own clothing line with Dressbarn.

On the magazine's cover, it says: "Ashley Graham Natural Beauty Turned Brand Builder."

Inside the magazine, the 28-year-old is seen in a number of racy pictures. Among the photographs taken by Gilles Bensimon are shots of the model in a black strappy set from her new Swimsuitsforall collection and a picture of an unseen man holding her breasts from behind.

"I know these celebrity entrepreneurs are just people," she told Maxim. "They've just been given the right opportunities and have soared with them. And that's what I'm trying to do.... I'm gonna take over."

The size 16 model is breaking barriers in the fashion world and marked her Sports Illustrated cover as not only a personal victory, but a victory for society in general. "Girls who are insecure about their bodies, girls who feel fat, girls who have cellulite, girls who have stretch marks on their body - those are all the things that I had as a kid and I never had a woman like me growing up to look at," Graham said. "I had my mother and that's one thing, but to have somebody who has cellulite, who has things that jiggle, who has back fat and talk about how you can be an overcomer and not let society take you down for all of that. That's real."

Graham is not the only plus-sized model to be making a difference in the industry. IMG Models recently signed its first plus-sized male model, Zach Miko. The agency created the new "brawn division" for models like Miko, which is a marketing term used to describe tall and big men. "The body positive messaging and size diversity is something that's relevant and something that continues to be on everybody's mind. We have to extend the conversation for men," Ivan Bart, the president of IMG Models, said. IMG is also the home agency of Graham.

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Maxim, Plus-size