SI Swim Search’s Gabriella Halikas Strikes Again With Body Positivity Social Media Campaign
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'Stop trying to cover up curvy bodies. Let's start celebrating them.'
Anything Bella Hadid can do, Gabriella Halikas knows she can do too. The SI Swim Search model recreated a 2018 Hadid look at New York Fashion Week as part of her "Thick girls can rock this fit" social media campaign.
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"When i think of @bellahadid i think of iconic supermodel and fashion icon. someone who can literally pull anything off," Halikas wrote on Instagram. "bella wore this nude catsuit during fashion week in 2018, so it was only right i re-created this look for fashion week this year, in 2022."
She wore a nude sheer catsuit with a corset-waist styled by Anna Lavo.
"When i see Bella model, walk down the runway, flood my tik tok for you page, or simply just exist— I always see comments of girls wishing they looked like her. girls dreaming to have her body. her thin waist and a gap between our thighs. don’t get me wrong, she’s arguably one of the most beautiful humans i’ve ever seen. BUT you are too," the 2021 Swim Search finalist continued. "I know my body will never look like hers.. so why not just celebrate our own? why not strut in the same exact look with that burning confidence knowing we too are uniquely beautiful?!"
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Halikas has built her Instagram platform to be a body-positive and inspiring environment. She's here to show her 183 thousand followers that "you can rock the exact same outfit" as Hadid and any other model, "and look damn good doing it."
Earlier this month, Halikas recreated a futuristic Skims look featuring Kim Kardashian.
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Halikas' goal is to change the narrative about what an "in" fashion body looks like.
"Living in a curvier body is always sexualized," she added. "I could wear the same top, same skirt, same outfit as someone who is thinner than me— but immediately mine is deemed too inappropriate. too provocative. too revealing.
"Stop trying to cover up curvy bodies and let's start celebrating them."
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