Ashley Graham reveals her family initially didn't accept her black husband

They may love him now, but things weren't always smooth between Ashley Graham's family and her husband of six years Justin Ervin.

The 29-year-old Sports Illustrated model opened up to Glamour about the first time she brought her African American boyfriend home to meet her Christian mid-western family. 

'I naively hoped everyone would be colorblind,' Ashley confessed. 

In the excerpt from her new memoir A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like, the body confidence advocate explained that she was 'shocked' at her grandmother's reaction to her new beau. 

'I brought Justin home to Nebraska. Now, I should probably mention that Justin is black, and that I didn’t grow up around many black people. The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad.'

 The 5ft 9in stunner reveals her family knew even less. 

'This was more than my mom knew; she didn’t even see a black person in real life until she was 18 years old.'