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"   Photo: Courtesy of Robyn Lawley  When plus-size model Robyn Lawley announced she was designing her own swimsuit line, girls of all sizes rejoiced\u2014and that was before they saw the structured, flirty pieces Lawley created. Just as cool were the line&amp;#039;s first digital photos, shot in a bathtub full of blue water (dyed with food coloring) and starring fellow model Leah Kelley. And we&amp;#039;re not the only ones who loved it\u2014the photos became Instagram hits mere minutes after being posted, and landed on hundreds of blogs within 24 hours. We telephoned Kelley to talk about accidental Internet fame, getting blue dye out of your hair, and how to pose like a pro in your bikini.  Your swimsuit shots have become an Internet sensation. How did the shoot happen? It&amp;#039;s been totally crazy\u2014we definitely did not expect this to happen. We didn&amp;#039;t even expect to get a good shot. Robyn just wanted to do something with food dye and water. I went to her house on Sunday night, and we&amp;#039;re both big zombie fans so we did the shoot 15 minutes before The Walking Dead started. She had a white swimsuit in her apartment that happened to be from her line that she was okay dyeing. I took off my makeup so it wouldn&amp;#039;t run everywhere, we did a few shots, threw in a little food coloring, and took the photos in just a few minutes because I was afraid the dye would stain my hair. Robyn was standing over her tub with one light, and during the commercial breaks she edited it and posted it online. We were astounded we got a good picture to begin with. I was excited to show my agents a new picture for my book, and then the next morning, The Huffington Post had it. It wasn&amp;#039;t a shoot for her line, we just wanted to shoot a portrait. I can&amp;#039;t believe it happened. She&amp;#039;d made this banana bread with Nutella on top\u2014Robyn has a food blog and she has this list of everything she&amp;#039;s making up on her fridge. So that&amp;#039;s why I was really there, for TV and banana bread.          More #bathtub play with Robyn #regram #robynlawleyswimwear @robynlawley1 #robynlawleyphotography #modelsshootingmodels #fashion #photoshoot A photo posted by Leah Kelley (@leahkelley) on Nov 25, 2013 at 6:34am PST     How did you meet Robyn? We met years before at Heidi Klum&amp;#039;s Halloween party. Some people just stand around and talk, and there was this girl dancing and having a blast and I was like, &amp;quot;Oh, she&amp;#039;s fun.&amp;quot; We danced all night, and we&amp;#039;ve been friends ever since.          One more #regram #robynlawleyswimwear #robynlawleyphotography #modelsshootingmodels #fashion #photoshoot A photo posted by Leah Kelley (@leahkelley) on Nov 25, 2013 at 1:27pm PST     What do you think of her line, now that you&amp;#039;re an unofficial spokesmodel? The cuts are great; you don&amp;#039;t have to &amp;quot;suck in&amp;quot; the whole time. You&amp;#039;re held where you want to be held. The quality is really good. I do a lot of swim[wear modeling], but it can be kind of dated. This is really top of the line, it&amp;#039;s not just covering you up. People love to complain that &amp;quot;plus-size&amp;quot; models aren&amp;#039;t curvy enough. And model Tara Lynn said she feels like Robyn gets criticized because her proportions make her look more like a &amp;quot;traditional&amp;quot; model. How do you feel about that as a plus-size model? People say that I don&amp;#039;t look like what a plus size model should be, but the world isn&amp;#039;t only size 14 any more than the world is all a size 0. The fashion industry as a whole should showcase the variety of types of bodies, not just tiny or plus size. What about a size 8 model? There are so many people who are a size 8, and there are no size 8 models! I want people to say, &amp;quot;Look at Leah Kelley! She looks great!&amp;quot; Models aren&amp;#039;t mannequins. [Brands] should choose us for our personality, too. I&amp;#039;ve heard that I&amp;#039;m not &amp;quot;plus enough.&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;m tall, so my size 12 is stretched out, but it is my size, it is considered plus-size and I have no qualms about that. I have naturally thin friends, and they&amp;#039;re people too; they&amp;#039;re beautiful on their own. We need more flavors! It&amp;#039;s not just size. For example, why does everyone have to be 18? Why isn&amp;#039;t there more racial diversity? I&amp;#039;m 26; I&amp;#039;m old in the modeling world, but I feel like a woman, more so than the 16-year-olds sitting around on-set in lingerie. 30-year-old women buy lingerie. They&amp;#039;re more likely to show off that lingerie than teenagers. People will always have issues with models. I&amp;#039;m just glad people want to talk about this.         Playing in the bath with some food coloring #asonedoes #regram #robynlawleyswimwear @robynlawley1 #robynlawleyphotography #modelsshootingmodels #fashion #photoshoot A photo posted by Leah Kelley (@leahkelley) on Nov 24, 2013 at 10:45pm PST     Are you okay with the term plus-size, if it has to cover such a wide variety of bodies? I&amp;#039;m fine with it. I do fit into the plus-size category, and there&amp;#039;s nothing wrong with that. I work in Europe a lot and I&amp;#039;m definitely plus-size in their eyes. This is where I am at a healthy stage, and one of the things I like about my agency [Wilhelmina] is they&amp;#039;re supportive... I can&amp;#039;t control what they call me. I&amp;#039;m just happy that I can be my size naturally and not be told to gain or lose weight. I won&amp;#039;t work for every client, but I get to work with people who support me at my healthiest size. I was skinny in high school and I&amp;#039;ve weighed 200 pounds. This is where I&amp;#039;ve come to be naturally.  How do you feel when you hear public debates about plus-size models? If they just put &amp;quot;model&amp;quot; in the headline of a story about me, some people say I&amp;#039;m too fat; other people say I&amp;#039;m too skinny. We&amp;#039;re all fine as we are. One thing I will say, though, is when you look at Robyn&amp;#039;s Instagram, there are a lot more &amp;quot;likes&amp;quot; on the picture than comments. I think people only comment when they&amp;#039;re unhappy. I don&amp;#039;t usually comment [online]. I only do that when it makes me angry...You can&amp;#039;t read the comments.  Do you have trouble finding clothes? What do you think about the current offerings in the plus-size category? The plus market as a whole is an untapped market. There is a lot of room for a high-end line that&amp;#039;s really great. You have to choose what works for your body type. I have my own style, and sometimes I shop regular size brands and get a 12. If I&amp;#039;m buying shorts, I don&amp;#039;t want it to be tight around my thighs\u2014that&amp;#039;s where my extra love is!\u2014so I might buy a 14. But I&amp;#039;ll buy a regular medium top if I want it to fit tighter. You just have to shop around. Online shopping is harder because you don&amp;#039;t know how it&amp;#039;ll fit, and you don&amp;#039;t know what size the model was really wearing. It&amp;#039;s hard for everyone at all sizes. There is a lot out there though, and I feel like I find clothes easily. I buy vintage size 16; I have a pair of my grandma&amp;#039;s Levis in a 14/16 that are my skinny jeans. I don&amp;#039;t think people should get caught up in their size.         Had to hurry through this shot because #thewalkingdead was starting soon. #priorities #zombiefans #regram #robynlawleyswimwear @robynlawley1 #robynlawleyphotography #modelsshootingmodels #fashion #photoshoot A photo posted by Leah Kelley (@leahkelley) on Nov 24, 2013 at 10:50pm PST     If you could snap your fingers and be a size 0, would you do it? God, no. Fuck it. I would die. My body could never maintain. At my skinniest point, I was a size 8. I could see my ribs, and it just did not fit my body. I think I would look horrible at a size 0. See more from Leah below:         End of the day swim after a long, hot, shoot. #aruba #paradise #beach #swim #fashion #photoshoot #photooftheday #model #happy #spoiled A photo posted by Leah Kelley (@leahkelley) on Oct 15, 2013 at 3:09pm PDT             #sirmione #lagodigarda #gardalake #italy #swimsuit #beautiful #happy #fall #autumn #photoshoot #model #fashion #itownapp A photo posted by Leah Kelley (@leahkelley) on Oct 3, 2013 at 2:30am PDT             \u264C #leoslovethesun #greece #lastday #bw #beachtime #besttime A photo posted by Leah Kelley (@leahkelley) on Sep 22, 2013 at 3:30pm PDT             Shot by the fabulous @robynlawley1 #repost #regram #modelsshootingmodels #fashion #photography A photo posted by Leah Kelley (@leahkelley) on Jul 24, 2013 at 3:11am PDT     "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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