Tess Holliday Quotes

For so long, I have been an outsider because of my size. And I think that fashion has always, in some way, catered to celebrities or to a thinner idealistic model.

Why would I want to walk the runway for a brand to be their token plus-size girl when they're not even making my size?

I think the word 'plus-sized' is so divisive to women.

I think it's a different experience for plus-size women in film and television to get clothes for events. It's just not as welcoming for us to get cool clothes that are, like, equal in glamour, in style, to what, I am going to say, 'small size' co-stars get to wear.

I'm giving curvy women a seat at a table that we've never been invited to before - a table with high-end fashion people who have never considered us beautiful.

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

My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

Fat bodies are used comically. I respect Rebel Wilson so much, and Melissa McCarthy. I love them both. But so often, I feel like fat female bodies are used as props.

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

Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort of fat people. It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we've been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on 'perfect' bodies.

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

I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.

I did not label myself 'plus size.' The fashion industry did.

It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.

I am not my skin. I am a model with a skin condition.

The concept of plus-size is so derogatory and weird. What does that mean? Plus the normal size? It shouldn't exist any more.

There shouldn't be a segregation of women over a size 16, it should just be all women who want to wear beautiful clothes.

Does any woman really just come in and say, 'I'm a plus-size woman?' Maybe as a defense mechanism or maybe as a way to kind of cope with fitting into society but... I just think it's divisive.

There's no conversation happening between plus-size women and designers. The door is never open.

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.

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

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

When someone thinks of the term, 'pretty girl,' they don't typically think of someone who looks like me.

I was called the girl that was 'pretty for a big girl,' 'the fat model.'