100 Quotes by Tess Holliday

The societal obsession with appearance is definitely something that weighs on your mind as a model.

Imagine just wanting to share photos of my kid and instead being told I'm unfit to be his mom because of my size.

I firmly believe that a big part of the obsession with women's thinness comes from the same place as male power fantasies.

Ultimately, I don't really want to see the media portraying curvier and fatter bodies being the norm, I want to see a variety of bodies of all shapes, sizes, colors, and orientations, all of the time just like we do in reality.

It's refreshing and weird when your kids get older and they're able to tell you how they feel and what they want.

I think that people think that since I literally wrote the book on how to love yourself that I love myself all the time, but I don't.

Many companies and publications don't understand what it means to be body positive or what it means to be plus-size. They're just trying to capitalize on the term because it's a hot topic.

I love taking baths with Lush bath bombs, or just sitting in a dark room and watching Netflix to turn my brain off.

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.