Quotes by Tess Holliday - Page 2

The States are more accommodating to fat people - there are more plus-sized clothing labels, and people talk openly about it.
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Labels
Clothing
Openly
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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.
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Attention
Pay
Pay Attention
Stomach
Crop
Forces
Wear
Loving
To Love
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Obviously there aren't many opportunities for someone who looks like me to walk in fashion shows. It's incredibly frustrating.
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Frustrating
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I think it's really important for all young girls to see themselves represented in fashion so they don't feel alone in the world.
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Young Girls
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I've been thinking a lot about my relationship to my own queerness, and I think the word pansexual speaks to me more than bi does.
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Relationship Thinking Me
Speaks
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I think that people think that since I literally wrote the book on how to love yourself that I love myself all the time, but I don't.
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Love Yourself
Love Time Myself
Literally
To Love
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I've been asked a lot lately if I had a hard time getting pregnant. I've been asked how I conceived. In the same way everyone else does!
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Pregnant
Conceived
Everyone Else
Hard Time
Lately
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Being fat doesn't necessarily make me feel stronger. What makes me feel strong is knowing that I can live my life and be who I want to be.
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Stronger
Life Me My Life
Life Me Live
Fat
Necessarily
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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!'
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Commenting
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I wanted to become a model out of delusion. It was always something that I wanted to do, I just never thought that I would have the opportunity.
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Delusion
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I was raised to believe that sex was shameful, that you should only have sex when you're married. I'm so glad that I didn't listen to that advice.
Tess Holliday /
Glad
Shameful
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It's really hard to find boots for plus-size women because most of us have larger calves - not all of us, but most of us - so it's hard to find boots.
Tess Holliday /
Boots
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I've been fortunate enough to pick the brands that I collaborate with based on if they feel authentic to me and if it's on-brand with what I am doing.
Tess Holliday /
Brands
Enough I Am Me
Authentic
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No one tells you that when you get older sometimes you never escape the bullying. I had no idea people could be as mean as they are when you're an adult.
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Bullying
No Idea
Adult
Escape
Older
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I think it frustrates me that so many people have bought into the idea of what we should look like instead of actually giving a crap about everyone around you.
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Look Me People
Frustrate
So Many People
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Plus-size is a term that's never been used in hate; no one has ever used it in a negative way. The industry has always used it to help us identify where to shop.
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Identify
Negative Way
Shop
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I'm a normal person, but people see me as this person who's not really real, almost like I don't have feelings. They think they can treat me any way they want to.
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Me Treat People
Normal Person
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Sometimes I feel like a million dollars and sometimes I feel terrible. But I've always been open about the fact that it's OK to be human and embrace those feelings.
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Million Dollars
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Being able to love who I was, while also understanding that I deserved to be treated with kindness, helped me create a more positive and happy environment for myself.
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Deserved
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Learning to love yourself is not going to happen overnight - the first step is trying to be kinder and more patient with yourself, and I understand that it takes time.
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Love Yourself
Patient
Love Time Learning
First Step
Overnight
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I feel like it's important to talk about my health, which is fine, and my size because there are young girls who see someone like me and can validate their own existence.
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Fine
Size
Health Me Important
Validate
Young Girls
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I've seen a lot of Black content creators calling for white folks to stop using the voices of Black folks to make TikToks because it's like digital blackface. That's valid.
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Black
Digital
Folks
White
Content
Seen
Creators
Valid
Voices
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Just because we're plus size, doesn't mean we have to prove that we're healthy, just as someone who is smaller than us or average size doesn't have to prove they are healthy.
Tess Holliday /
Plus
Smaller
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I think in the past, I was motivated by seeing what I could do with my own career as far as success. I was definitely motivated by my followers and family, which hasn't changed.
Tess Holliday /
Followers
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I think people think how I got work came easy. People assume that I was an overnight sensation, because they're just now hearing about me, or that everything happened very quickly.
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Work Me People
Assume
Overnight
Sensation
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I was bullied from fifth grade on. They started making fun of me because my mom was in a wheelchair, then they started making fun of me because I was poor and then it evolved to my size.
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Bullied
Fifth
Mom Me Fun
Evolved
Wheelchair
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Many companies and publications don't understand what it means to be body positive or what it means to be plus-size. They're just trying to capitalize on the term because it's a hot topic.
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Capitalize
Publications
Topic
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When you become an adult and you have a choice of who to have in your life, if someone's hurting you and making you feel bad, then they shouldn't be in your life, even if it's a family member.
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Life Family Your
Family Member
Hurting
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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.'
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Describe
Driver
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Love is, to me, a lot of different things. It's the love you have for yourself and if you have a family and friends. Your love for pizza. I feel like love can be really anything that you want it to be.
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Family And Friends
Pizza
Love Family Love Is
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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.
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Clients
Height
Tattooed
Enough Your Will
Adding
Arm
Hire
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Why is it controversial that I chose to talk about my abortion? And the fact that I got an abortion when I was in a marriage and could have financially supported a child, why did I feel so much shame for that?
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Abortion
Controversial
Chose
Financially
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Ultimately, I don't really want to see the media portraying curvier and fatter bodies being the norm, I want to see a variety of bodies of all shapes, sizes, colors, and orientations, all of the time just like we do in reality.
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Norm
Portraying
Shapes
Variety
Bodies
Colors
Fatter
Sizes
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If you want to eat pizza, have the pizza. If you want to run 5 miles up a hill, cool, go run. Do whatever you want to do, but don't let the size of your body and other people's opinions about you stop you from living the life you deserve.
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Cool
Body
Deserve
Miles
Pizza
Size
Your Body
Life Your Body
Eat
Go
Living
Life Cool Your
Run
Whatever
Hill
Opinions
Other
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I'm OK with being called plus size, I'm OK with being called fat. If someone is shouting that I'm fat in the street in a derogatory way, then obviously I'm not OK with that, but I'm comfortable using the adjective fat to describe myself, because I am fat.
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Derogatory
Plus
Shouting
Adjective
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I don't understand why it's not okay to be plus-size. I don't know why people hate that phrase. Many models have built their careers as plus-size women and then suddenly don't want to be called that anymore. But you're still cashing checks from plus-size designers.
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Careers
Checks
Models
Okay
Anymore
Designers
Phrase
Suddenly
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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.
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Brands
Diverse
Sample
Time Dress Me
Messaging
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The real issue that I have is the erasure people are trying to do with my very valid feelings in regard to how plus-size and fat people are treated in fashion. The way that people just kind of overlook us and pretend that, you know, we don't have style, that we aren't trendy or fashionable. It's dehumanizing.
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Regard
Trendy
Pretend
Just Kind
Overlook
Real Issue
Valid
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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.
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Abuse
Bigger
Blood
Blood Pressure
Cholesterol
Diabetes
Fine
Healthy
High Blood Pressure
Mindset
Perpetuating
Pressure
Beginning
Doctor
High
In The Beginning
Owe
Telling
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I think that some of the biggest surprises I've had early on, actually to this day, are all the misconceptions about my body and my health. There are so many people who think that being a plus-size model, that there's something wrong with it, or that I must be unhealthy or that I'm promoting an unhealthy lifestyle.
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Lifestyle
Unhealthy
Surprises
Misconceptions
So Many People
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I've noticed that a lot of people who criticize me are from the U.K. - both in the press and on social media. Since I've been here, I've gotten a lot of stares on the street, but in the States, people always come up to me and say, 'I love your hair' or 'I love your dress, you're so cute.' Here, people just look at me like I'm a crazy person.
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Cute
Crazy Person
Criticize
Love Always Dress
Love Look Dress
Noticed
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