ASHLEY GRAHAM has spoken for the first time about being the victim of a sexual assault when she was just 10.

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The model has revealed in her new autobiography -A New Model:What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like – that the 18-year-old son of her parents friends forcedher to touch his erection while they were in her laundry room after swimming in the pool, People reports.Graham said that she was frightened at the time and fled from the room, but that the incident also stayed with her and left her with “so many lingering questions”.

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The model and Vogue cover girl also speaks candidly in the book about experimenting with drugs – including cocaine and ecstasy – when she first moved to New York as a budding model, because she wanted to be “popular”.She told of the moment that she was almost dropped by her agency for missing a flight to a job, because she had been up all night partying the night before, revealing that she apologised and changed her behaviour.

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Graham is now known in the industry for her pleasant demeanour and professional attitude, and is an outspoken advocate not only for size diversity in fashion, but also for women reaching acceptance of, and being happy with, their own shape.

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