When she was around 12, she said, Nu and her mother were walking in public when a skinhead with a Confederate flag screamed at them. One of only two Asian kids at her Maryland school, Nu said she experienced a pair of disturbing incidents of racism during her childhood. “All I wanted to do was be white, to be white enough to fit in and not be called Godzilla.” “I felt like I was less worthy for being Asian because I felt like an outsider being so tall,” Nu said. Video: Asian-American Olympians turn experiences with discrimination into motivation “As Asian Americans, we have this dichotomy of the pressure of Asian culture and what it wants us to be and then American culture, so to have these conversations with fellow people in the same boat has been really nice for me,” Nu said. The Los Angeles-based Nu is blazing a path for plus-size Asian women, many of whom thank her on social media for helping normalize different types of bodies. Nu said when she did see Asian American women in the media, there was no diversity in terms of size.
“Being able to fulfill this representation role for other people who see me as a role model and to also fulfill that for myself has been super healing.” “Growing up, I didn’t have someone that looked like me,” Nu told NBC Asian America. Last week, the 24-year-old Japanese and Dutch model and singer-songwriter made history as the first Asian American curve model to appear in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue - a feat her younger self never could have fathomed.
In middle school, 5-foot-11-inch Yumi Nu would walk down the hall as boys bullied her by calling her "Godzilla" and "Yao Ming."
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