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Tess Holliday
1985 • American • Model
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Showing 60 quotesPeople laugh in my face sometimes if they don't know who I am. When they find out that I model they're like, 'well what do you model?'— Tess Holliday
I can never celebrate a success in my career without it being picked apart because of my size or 'my health.'— Tess Holliday
Designers still won't dress me, and if they do, they will send a dress that doesn't fit me because it's the only sample that they have in their office that we can get to in time, and then it's hard because I don't want to support certain brands that I don't feel like are diverse in their messaging.— Tess Holliday
I have to wear Eloquii to red carpet events where my friends are wearing custom Versace.— Tess Holliday
When I describe myself as fat to people, whether it's a driver, anywhere around the world, or a friend, and I'm like, 'Oh, it's just because I'm fat,' people are like, 'Don't say that about yourself.'— Tess Holliday
Obviously there aren't many opportunities for someone who looks like me to walk in fashion shows. It's incredibly frustrating.— Tess Holliday
I'll wear a crop top if I'm not loving my stomach because it kind of forces me to pay attention to it and to love it, really.— Tess Holliday
If I have the opportunity, a massage or facial is a great way to take a little 'me time.'— Tess Holliday
I firmly believe that a big part of the obsession with women's thinness comes from the same place as male power fantasies.— Tess Holliday
The societal obsession with appearance is definitely something that weighs on your mind as a model.— Tess Holliday
I was angry and sad that people kept commenting on my pictures saying, 'You're too fat to wear that!' or 'Cover up! No one wants to see that!'— Tess Holliday
What shaped my perception about my body and myself was finding better clothes - that's what changed my world.— Tess Holliday
I can live my life, I can be at Disneyland and eat fried chicken, and that's my choice.— Tess Holliday
In the beginning I used to say, 'I'm healthy, my cholesterol's fine, I don't have high blood pressure, I don't have diabetes.' By telling people that you see a doctor, and telling people that you're healthy, it's perpetuating the abuse against bigger bodies and the mindset that we owe it to people to be healthy.— Tess Holliday
It's hard enough to break into my industry when you're my height and my size but adding the tattoos on top of it, there's not many clients that will hire you if you have Miss Piggy tattooed on your arm.— Tess Holliday