100 Quotes by Tess Holliday

I'm not like recruiting people and starting a cult and telling people to be fat.

People laugh in my face sometimes if they don't know who I am. When they find out that I model they're like, 'well what do you model?'

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.

All I want is to feel good and really own my body, and that's what I tried to create.

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.

My style is very eclectic, definitely more '60s and '70s inspired.

Don't get me started on PETA.

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.

I would really love to work with major photographers who haven't featured plus-size models before.