NEW YORK — “I’m shooting a Vogue cover as a chubby, short, mixed-race woman who never imagined this would be her reality,” says Paloma Elsesser of the “surreal” day that Annie Leibovitz photographed her for Vogue’s January 2021 issue. It was a victory, and not just for Elsesser.
For years, you had to look a certain way to be on the cover of Vogue: white, tall and, above all, thin. When the magazine put beloved Black media mogul…