Denise Bidot is a known advocate for a more inclusive fashion industry , and for the second year in a row, the 29-year-old plus-size model walked the Fashion Week runways.

Ahead of her runway appearances for Chromat and Addition Elle last week, Bidot spoke intimately with The Huffington Post about her personal experience with body image growing up, how she plans to pass on her body positive mindset to her 7-year-old daughter and why she wants everyone to know theres no wrong way to be a woman.

Take a look at the conversation with the model, of Puerto Rican and Kuwaiti descent, below: