The largest professional model in the world - American Tess Holliday - was born in 1985, lives in Los Angeles and wears the 60th clothing size with a height of 1.65 m. Looking at her photo and reading numerous interviews, you say that she does not complex and does not worry, and even vice versa - she is proud of her appearance.
But how safe is the girl’s health? After all, Tess weighs over 150 kilograms! Nevertheless, she is a sought-after model, loves to be photographed in underwear and demonstrate her body.
Khudoba is not for her, not every person is given to be slim, but one wants to be a model. If you spend your whole life trying to sculpt yourself according to a certain pattern and love the resulting Galatea, life will rush past, and you will not have time to see anything. Diets, calories - these words in the Tess vocabulary, it seems, are not.
She frankly declares that her relationship with the body is a huge journey, full of positive and calm, and not the path to some goal. She tells everyone openly that she does not care what they think about her.
Nevertheless, she was able to surprise the fans by making a publication in her account at the end of August 2018 on her sports activities in the courtyard of her own house with five-liter bottles as a burden. To questions from subscribers, she replied that she simply wanted to keep herself in good shape.
Plus-size model on the cover of Cosmo
What is a challenge to feminism? Photo of the model Tess Holliday appeared on the cover of the British Cosmopolitan in late August 2018. The appearance had the effect of an exploding bomb, opinions were divided. Tess bathes in glory and celebrates victory.
Biography
Tess Holiday, nee Munster, was born in 1985, on July 5, in the American outback - the city of Lorele, Mississippi. Her relationship with her parents was very difficult. In some interviews, she admitted that she was harassed in her youth and tried to rape.
A girl from an early age dreamed of getting into the world of fashion and walking on the catwalk, but from childhood she was very full, and the strict canons of beauty, alas, did not allow liberties in appearance. As long as she remembers, all her life she was the object of ridicule, because of bullying peers at the age of 17, she even dropped out of school. Today it has a stable immunity to any kind of criticism - school hardening has made itself felt.
Tess arrived with her mother for the first casting in Atlanta, but the small size of the girl (only 165 cm) and modeled dimensions once again reminded herself - she was informed that she did not fit the standards of growth and body proportions. Nevertheless, she was offered to star in a plus size catalog for women. None of the relatives believed in the success of Tess, except for the girl herself and her mother.
Career
Tess worked as an administrator in a dental clinic, she sent her portfolio to many sites and waited a long time for an answer. In 2011, she was invited by the producers of the reality show Heavy Channel A&E, which talked about how people fight obesity, following diets and playing sports. Tess did not like the broadcast format, but she agreed. After the broadcast, she began to receive proposals for filming, she did not expect this, although already in 2010, large-size models began to gain popularity. "Imperfect" girls literally "rose from their knees" - now they will be considered for people.
The owner of XXL clothing size (60th Russian size), Holliday starred for the authoritative glossy magazine Vogue. In 2015, she signed a contract with MiLK Model Management, and today, at the age of 33, Tess Holiday weighs 155 kg.
She made not only a dizzying career as a model, but also wrote a book, “The Complete Girl”. The girl is an activist of “body positive, ” giving lectures in which she teaches people to accept themselves with all the shortcomings, eat what they want, and not what is imposed as a healthy product. She believes that society should accept people as they are: full, thin, healthy, sick.
There is a place of physical activity in Tess’s life, she goes in for sports, goes hiking, swims, but doesn’t follow any diets, she believes that you can be full and healthy.
The photo of Tess on the cover of Cosmo was a real challenge for both today's feminists and their opponents.
She does not respect the principles of healthy lifestyle, does not take care of herself
So says one half of the split army of those who care. The non-standard appearance of the model is an occasion to ridicule her, to mock her appearance.
Very many complain that the model of Tess Holiday does not promote body positive, but an unhealthy lifestyle. But what about following healthy lifestyle? Is it all in vain?
Two years ago, Facebook refused to publish an advertisement with a Tess Holiday model in a bikini, explaining the rejection by the fact that the body does not look the best. But later a “miracle” occurred: representatives of the social network reported that they had made a big mistake and the photo was approved.
Well-known British TV host Pierce Morgan accused Holiday of "promoting obesity." And everything would not be so acute if it were not for the height of the "ongoing crisis of overweight people in the UK." Tess retorted that she was American, and Pierce might not be worried. In addition, she added that those who consider the weight of Tess Holiday as a symbol of the glorification of obesity suffer from the glorification of dullness.
What is body positive
The model, like the authors and adherents of this style, testifies that fullness is not always a sign of ill health. On the contrary, those who lose weight lose their health and mind. Propaganda of harmony and antagonism to “generous” bodies leads to the fact that overweight people literally become outsiders of modern life, they don’t sew clothes, they don’t create amenities: for example, it’s difficult for a full person to accommodate in some types of transport.
Fat girls bring themselves to anorexia, which, unfortunately, ends in death if treatment is not started in time. Tess claims that if a person decided to lose weight, then it should be exclusively for himself, for himself. And not for the public.
Body positive - the adoption of one's body is a fashionable modern trend.
My body is my business
Many feminists believe that the body and everything connected with it should concern only the person himself, and not his environment. Tess Holiday achieved popularity herself, without any help, and was able to become happy in her body. Despite the difficult childhood, the first motherhood at age 20 and harassment, Tess today is on the wave of popularity, she is provided, she has a people's love.
