'Plus-size doesn't mean that I'm not healthy!': David Hasselhoff's daughter Hayley speaks up for curvy models

Her father David Hasselhoff saved lives on screen, now his daughter Hayley is helping young girls love their bodies by promoting healthy body image.

The 21-year-old is one of the most in-demand plus-size models in the world and has been working in the industry since she was 14.
In the country for the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival, the bubbly blonde hit back at naysayers who said plus size models were 'glamourising obesity'.

Blonde bombshell: Hayley Hasselhoff leaves her hotel in Sydney on Monday 

'We're fit, we're healthy, we eat right, we work out. Plus size model does not mean that we’re not healthy,' she told the MailOnline.
'Plus size is not glamourising obesity: it’s about empowering. The message behind the fashion is feeling confident in whatever you’re wearing.
'The plus size movement is not just about fashion, it's about body image and if we're doing a shoot, they won't retouch as at all.
'That's the cool thing: there's no retouching at all because we want to give girls the truth, not a fabrication.'
But Hayley isn't one to muddle her words, and is quick to add that she's 'never been against the fashion industry at all'.
'I understand it,' she clarifies.

Fierce femme: The 21-year-old on the runway at British Plus Size Fashion in London on February

'What people need to realise is that on the runway it’s a totally different situation.
'For campaigns there should be different shapes and sizes and I'm not saying that there shouldn’t be for the runway, but that’s to see the fashions.
'It’s not to see the models, it’s to see the clothes.
'Plus sized fashion represents a women’s figure.
'The message behind every brand that's plus size is about making a woman feel confident in any shape or size.
'Now straight size, it’s all about the signature brand and how to look good in that one brand, and not necessarily how to look good for yourself.'

Perfect pout: The LA native gives good face in an Instagram snap in Sydney on Monday

Big traveler: The model touches down with her immense baggage at Sydney airport on Monday

Despite having got into the fashion industry as a teenager, Hayley said working with plus size models and designers helped her develop a healthy body image.
'For me, the years where girls usually form those negative thoughts about their body, I was working with real women.
'I was working with people who I looked up to and had curves, had boobs, had curves, had butts, but at the same time were toned. 
'I never had those negative thoughts about my body so I understood that growing into my own was more important than tryting to be something that I’m not.'
The model recently walked on the catwalk in London for British Plus Size Fashion Weekend and said it was 'inspiring' to see woman of all shapes and sizes being celebrated.
'There were Swedish girls, German girls, British girls, Australian girls and every single one of them had a different body type.
'An Australian girl size 12 and a Swedish girl size 12 are completely different, just because of the way they’re formed.
'It’s becoming this worldwide movement because people are getting it.
'We all have two different parents, we're not supposed to look the same. It's ridiculous.'

Baby bloom: The star poses up in an Instagram shot in Sydney on Monday