Ben Barry (born February 9, 1983) is a Canadian entrepreneur, academic, author, and women's health advocate.
[2] Ben is the founder and CEO of the Ben Barry Agency, a modelling agency and consultancy known for its use of diverse models, and the author of the Canadian bestseller Fashioning Reality: A New Generation of Entrepreneurship.
He also writes a bi-weekly small business column for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper of record.
This was in contrast to most modelling agencies of the time which imposed strict height, weight, and age requirements.
[3][6][15] Barry has been acknowledged for his efforts to reform the fashion industry to more accurately represent women's diversity, and to end the use of a standard physical beauty ideal.