This history-making model made a public appeal to Victoria's Secret to walk the runway

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The Victoria's Secret show airs on December 8 at 10 p.m. ET on CBS.

The retailer infamously does not showcase curvier models.

This summer, plus size model Denise Bidot told The Daily Mail that she'd love to be a Victoria's Secret model. That would make her the first plus-size woman to strut Victoria's Secret's iconic (if over-the-top) runway and to pose its famed catalogs.

But even though Bidot will not be strutting the runway this year, the curvy model has already been making history, and she's encouraging people to embrace themselves — no matter their size or their stretch marks.

Find out more about the stunning model.

Bidot was raised by a single mother.

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She watched her mother diet constantly, and that helped shift the way she thought about beauty and size. "I didn't want to go through that, and I didn't want my children to through that either. It's crazy, because now I'm a size 14 and my mom is a size 14! She comes to shows with me, and I think it has been helping her throughout the whole process. I am still honored to be able to help my mother gain her confidence — along with all women in the world," she said to Latina.

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Bidot's family all had traditional jobs — they were doctors and lawyers, she said in an interview with Latina. She told Latina that she wanted to do things differently — so she asked her mother if she could go to Los Angeles for a week instead of having a quinceañera. By the time she was 18 years old, she had moved there to pursue acting.

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