Plus-size woman, 28, who tried to slim down for YEARS and even considered SURGERY reveals how model Tess Holliday inspired her to love her 300lb frame and proudly flaunt it in bikinis. Megan Tess Holliday is an American plus-size model, blogger, internet personality, and make-up artist. She is famous for getting featured in Vogue Italia, H&M’s advertising, Marie Claire, and others. She was also tagged on “fashion” blogs, models accessories, and plus size clothing lines, and was also contacted to audition for Vh1’s ‘The More: 9 plus-size fitness brands who make activewear that actually fits you. Bines posted a picture of 280-pound model Tess Holliday on her Facebook page juxtaposed with an image of an alarmingly It might take while since she isn't trying to gain sadly but she looks about 370 or 380 so pretty close. She's pretty short, so bear that in mind - I could see maybe 350, but not much heavier at the moment. 2. 1. steveblack341 , Hotefatty and Acosta reacted to this. . View author archive follow on twitter April 23, 2022 | 12:42pm Tess Holliday has been “struggling” with her “body image.” On Friday, the plus-size model and activist shared several sweet snaps of herself and others on holiday. “I’m gonna be honest,” Holliday, 36 wrote alongside them. “I’ve been really struggling with body image in a way I’ve never experienced. It’s been almost debilitating because even though y’all see me out having fun, it sometimes takes so much work & energy just to be able to leave the house. “I’m the kind of gal that always wants my photo taken, until lately… & these are some of the first photos I’ve taken in a while were I saw myself in them & was kind. (I’m working on it.) Soaking up this family time & feeling grateful, even when it’s tough 💕✨,” she concluded. Tess Holliday confesses to struggling with her body image. Last year the mother-of-two revealed that she is “anorexic and in recovery” after battling the eating disorder. “I’m anorexic & in recovery. I’m not ashamed to say it out loud anymore,” Holliday tweeted last May. “I’m the result of a culture that celebrates thinness & equates that to worth, but I get to write my own narrative now. I’m finally able to care for a body that I’ve punished my entire life & I am finally free.” She chose to speak publicly after receiving comments about her fluctuating weight. Holliday has described herself as a “body positive activist.”Getty Images for Constellation I Holliday confessed that she hasn’t taken any photos of herself in “awhile.”Instagram/@ tessholliday “To everyone that keeps saying ‘you’re looking healthy lately’ or ‘You are losing weight, keep it up!’ Stop,” she wrote on Instagram. “Don’t. Comment. On. My. Weight. Or. Perceived. Health. Keep. It. To. Yourself. Thanks✌🏻” Holliday acknowledged that she did lose weight, but is now “feeding my body regularly for the first time in my entire life.” “For folks like me that are trying to reframe our relationships with our bodies & heal, hearing comments about weight is triggering as hell,” she continued on Instagram. “It sets us back in our progress — and when people working on themselves see you commenting to me that way, it hurts THEM, not just me.” Dziś jest najgrubszą top modelką na świecie, a kiedyś... Tess Holiday pokazała zdjęcie z dzieciństwa Tess Holiday, która uchodzi za ikonę modelingu plus size, opublikowała zdjęcie z czasów, gdy miała 13 lat. Jak wtedy wyglądała? Tess Holiday, czyli tak naprawdę Ryann Maegen Hoven, to 32-letnia modelka plus size i z najbardziej rozpoznawalnych twarzy w tej profesji. Na Instagramie śledzi ją ponad 1,5 miliona osób, dziewczyna nie może też narzekać na brak zleceń i zainteresowania ze strony marek. Polecamy: Rozpoznajecie tę gwiazdę na starym zdjęciu? Dzisiaj to znana jurorka! (18. urodziny Podejście do modelek plus size jest jednak różne... Niektórzy doceniają je za to, że są odważne i nie wstydzą się pokazywać ciała, które wymyka się standardom z wybiegów . Okrąglejsze dziewczyny pokazują innym, że nie warto mieć kompleksów, bo każdy jest piękny, a wszystko zależy od tego, co sami o sobie myślimy. Z drugiej strony wiele osób zarzuca modelkom plus size, że propagują niezdrowy tryb życia i otyłość. Racja zapewne, jak w wielu przypadkach, leży pośrodku. Post udostępniony przez Tess (@tessholliday) Wrz 11, 2017 o 12:15 PDT Tess Holiday w dzieciństwie Wiele osób obserwujących losy modelek plus size zastanawia się, czy ich waga zawsze była wyższa niż przyjmuje się za normę. Wątpliwości rozwiała sama Tess Holiday, która podzieliła się zdjęciemi z czasów, gdy miała tylko 13 lat. Jako nastolatka była znacznie szczuplejsza, co nie znaczy, że w pełni akceptowała siebie... Polecamy: Ten model plus size ma naprawde nietypową sylwetkę. Możesz mu pozazdrościć... biustu Post udostępniony przez Tess (@tessholliday) Lut 6, 2018 o 1:32 PST Zdjęcie pochodzi z jej pierwszego i jedynego konkursu piękności, w którym wystąpiła Tess. Przyznaje, że chciała wtedy "czuć się piękna i dopasowana do reszty" i, tak jak jej "ładne" koleżanki, występować w konkursach piękności. Jednak już wtedy nie było łatwo znaleźć kreację, w którą bz się mieściła. Ta, którą widzimy na zdjęciu jest jedyną, jaką znalazła jej matka. Tess... "If someone doesn't look at an image and feel something, you haven't done your job," the model sats Tess Holliday is a size-22 social media star who’s taken the fashion world by storm. Subscribe now for an inside look at how she is reinventing the word “supermodel,” only in PEOPLE! Please welcome our newest celebrity blogger, Tess Holliday. One of the world s top plus-size models, Holliday, 29, is also a body-positive activist who created the popular movement #effyourbeautystandards to promote acceptance and inclusion of all body types. In January, she signed with MILK Management, becoming the largest plus-size model to be signed to a mainstream modeling agency. She has 663,000 followers on Instagram and over 800,000 Facebook fans. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. I was visiting my mom in Mississippi when I received an email from MILK Management in London offering to sign me as one of their models. I didn t believe it at first. But it turned out to be real. I was going to be the largest plus-size model ever signed. The news was especially sweet because I was with my mom. She claimed not to be surprised at all. She was always sure it would happen. That was my mom. She always believed in me. Even when I was bullied in school and pushed into lockers, she fought for me. When the school did nothing, she yanked me out and encouraged me to follow my own path. She is, and always has been, a great inspiration to me, having overcome enormous physical challenges herself like learning to walk again. After leaving school, I went to many discouraging auditions where I was told I was too short (5-foot-5) and too fat (size 22) to be a model. Thanks to the power of the Internet, I was able to create my own destiny. I started posting photos of myself in my underwear, then in bathing suits and other clothes that I liked but weren t considered suitable for large and curvy women. Soon I was on my way. My photos led to real jobs. As my modeling career took off, I began to challenge society’s perception of “beauty” and what’s acceptable in our industry and the world. Now I am doing it on a bigger stage – a worldwide stage. It’s something I always dreamed of but never thought would happen when I was growing up in that small town in Mississippi. RELATED VIDEO: Tess Holliday: From Bullied Teen to Size-22 Supermodel! Signing with MILK Management this January challenged everything I thought I knew about myself and about modeling – in the best way. I push myself so much harder and step even further out of my comfort zone. MILK Management’s confidence in me catapulted me into a different league, both in modeling and in facing off with societal beauty standards. I think if someone doesn’t look at an image and feel something, you haven’t done your job. Whether it’s negative or positive, it should evoke something in them. Recent photographs of me in sexy black lingerie have gone viral. I know that some people will be negative about them, but I also know that millions more will be positive. They know, like I do, that there is no one way to be a woman, or to be beautiful. We all deserve a place. I believe this with all my heart. While modeling is my career and my family is vitally important to me, I have this passion inside of me to help other women feel confident and comfortable in their bodies, regardless of their size or what society tells them is beautiful. It s like a calling. I created the hashtag #effyourbeautystandards as a small step in that direction. It s become a movement. Millions of women have joined me, letting me know that they now feel good about how they look and are free to wear what they like. I get the most unbelievable letters and emails from women every day. They are so honest and heartfelt. They tell me how my being willing to be out there and tackle the unrealistic notions that our society has of beauty has changed their lives – sometimes has saved their lives. It is daunting. But I see myself in all of them. My life has changed in the best way and I know the best is yet to come. If it can happen to me, it can happen to everyone. 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