Tess Holliday Quotes

A lot of women think being thin is the way to go, but I prefer to have some meat on my bones.

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

Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

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.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

Why is it controversial to talk about the fact that fat people deserve to take up space and deserve to be sexy?

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.

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

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

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

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.

There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; there's not just one experience.

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.

At the end of the day, it just means 'curvy.' That's why I think the word 'plus-size' in the industry is very different from people's mind view of what 'plus-size' really should mean.

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'

Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isn't allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

I think people are way less judgmental about chunky guys.

I'm a curvy girl and that will never change.

In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table along with those who face discrimination based on the way that God or Nature or our Intelligent Designer created us.

Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six.