Size 22 Model Tess Holliday Shared a Naked Selfie
Tess Holliday posed naked and posted the image to her Instagram. Photo: @TessHolliday/Instagram
The woman behind #effyourbeautystandards has just given the middle finger to her haters yet again. Tess Holliday, the first size 22 model to be signed to an agency, posed naked and posted the image to Instagram.
“My relationship with my body is a journey, not a destination. I appreciate & honor what’s it’s done for me, & the life it brought into the world,” she wrote in the caption alongside the photo, which showed off her bare behind and didn’t #freethenipple seeing as she censored them out. “I couldn’t give a [monkey emoji] if you find me attractive or if my body offends you.”
The mother of one whose real name is Tess Munster shot to social media fame at the beginning of 2015 with her positive message. At 260 pounds, she’s obese but hasn’t let that impede her modeling aspirations. She’s landed campaigns with Torrid, Benefit, Yours Clothing, and Simply Be in just a matter of months.
Presciently, she spoke of photos she’s seen in to People in May, on which she appeared on the cover. “I think if someone doesn’t look at an image and feel something, you haven’t done your job. Whether it’s negative or positive, it should evoke something in them. Recent photographs of me in sexy black lingerie have gone viral,” she told the magazine. “I know that some people will be negative about them, but I also know that millions more will be positive. They know, like I do, that there is no one way to be a woman, or to be beautiful. We all deserve a place.
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