Tess Holliday Quotes

I think my body is beautiful, and I'm confident to embrace it. There's nothing to be ashamed of if you're a size 14, as long as you're fit and healthy.

A size 16 can be the best shape for you, and you can be healthy.

I've been every size in the world. Parts of my twenties, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. 'If I was a 6 or an 8,' I thought, 'Why aren't I a 2 or a 4?'

I've always been an overweight girl, and I've never had an issue with that. I'm very comfortable with my body.

It doesn't matter: any weight, shape or form or however your body is, you want to be proud of it.

Everyone has to realize that body-shaming can happen at any size.

I'm comfortable with being a voluptuous woman because I'm not going to be a size two and that's ok with me.

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

There are exciting, intelligent, fat people - and exciting, intelligent, thin people.

I'm done losing weight, I feel great, and I love looking like a woman. I love being curvy and having boobs and hips. It's hot. I don't ever want to be size zero.

I love my curves.

I'm so glad teenagers can look up to young girls and realize it's okay to be voluptuous.

I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

I'm curvy and wholesome.

I do find that as a curvy girl, as I guess I've sort of been deemed, I don't think you want to run your curves off, because then you're just not yourself.

If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.

There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.

I'm never going to be a size zero and, to be honest I don't want to be.

I'm cool with my body, I love my body. I wouldn't trade it for no other body.