Here's why plus-size models are turning heads on the beach with their curves

A newly-confident generation of curvy women are throwing away their inhibitions, determined to embrace the bikini bodies they were born with, writes Deirdre Reynolds.

AS one of Ireland’s hottest new plus-size models, Nicola Furlong has worked the runway in lingerie and posed in nothing but a bed sheet.

Until last year though, the mum-of-four from Enniscorthy never even dreamed of donning a bikini on the beach.