Years active: 2014 - present (started around 28 years old; 11 years in the business)
Instagram follower count: 698k (as of April 2025)
About Denise Bidot
American plus-size fashion model.
Career
While working as a makeup artist, Bidot was discovered by a photographer who had approached her about getting into modelling, to which she agreed.In 2014, Bidot became the first plus-size model to walk the runway for two straight-size brands during New York Fashion Week.Bidot has worked for clients such as Nordstrom, Forever21, Target, Old Navy, Lane Bryant, Levi's, Macy's. Bidot has been featured on several television shows including nuvoTV's Curvy Girls,HBO's Habla Women,[13] and Yahoo! En Español web series Mama vs. Mama. She has also been included on segments on The Tyra Banks Show and The Real. In 2016, Bidot launched a lifestyle movement called "There Is No Wrong Way to Be a Woman".Bidot is one of the featured models in the 2016 documentary film Straight/Curve.[16] In December 2016, Bidot's picture of her wearing a two piece bathing suit in Lane Bryant's new resort collection ad campaign with the photo unretouched showing her stretch marks went viral within hours. In 2018, Bidot joined Univision's reality television beauty pageant Nuestra Belleza Latina as a main judge.
Personal life
Bidot has a daughter named Joselyn Adams who was born in 2008 to childhood sweetheart Joshua Adams.
Bidot began dating rapper and producer Lil Wayne in June 2020.They broke up that November once Bidot noticed Wayne supporting former president of the United States, Donald Trump They reconciled shortly after. They ended their relationship again in early 2022