she said teen vogue“The way I incorporate my Latinoness into my work and advocacy emphasizes who I am as a gay, Puerto Rican, and Latino person in every opportunity and work I am involved in. I always keep my people in mind. I’m always trying to keep my people in mind, not just as a Latina, but as a plus-size Latina. In recent beauty and fragrance campaigns, I’ve been the only plus size campaign, and perhaps even the first, to represent a ‘-size male model who is Latino. is going to be featured in a big beauty campaign, so I wore something with a Latin design for it. I want a part of us to be seen by as many people as possible.”
Adi also said Stargazing“The dial has moved a little bit more to the masculine side of plus-size representation, but intersectionality isn’t there and there’s a lot of space where that representation can be amplified. … It’s frustrating, and like me… I feel like I’m the only one who says it. Models who are seen as more acceptable because they’re tall or masculine aren’t affected, so they don’t say it out loud, because I’ve been doing the same thing for years. Sounds like a broken record the last six years. ”