Target's plus-size male model says the job helped him appreciate his body



Keep going to see Target's new plus-sized fashions for women. Target's first "plus size" male model, Zach Miko

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Target's "big and tall" section online debuted its first "plus size" male model earlier this month. Today, on ABC's "Good Morning America," Zach Miko, who is 275 pounds and a size XXL, says it was not until he got the job, his first at modeling, that he learned to accept his body.

"Everything fit right," Miko, 26. "I sat down with my wife and I was like, 'I've never felt good about the way I looked before.' Not OK about the way I looked. I felt good. I felt great about the way I looked."

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"I was like, 'I like being the big guy. I'm happy to be the big guy. I've been trying to change for years because that's what the industry is telling me to do, and I don't want to do that,'" Miko said.

Miko made history for Target by becoming its first truly plus size male model featured on its website.

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Even though Target has a "big and tall" section, as People magazine noted, the models aren't really "big and tall."

"Our perception of beauty in society is so warped in that it's only this one thing," he said to People. "We need to keep seeing bigger, smaller. We need to see every body type. We need to see that every type of person is beautiful."