Plus Size Model Ignores Critics, Proud of People Magazine Cover

Plus-size model Tess Holliday was on Today and talked about landing her first magazine cover, the cover of People Magazine's body issue, and how her career is taking off.

Tess had another dream come true in January when she says she became the first size 22 model to be given a contract with a major modeling agency saying, "I really never thought it would happen. This was definitely a wildest dreams moment for me and so for it to happen or to even be sitting here or to be on the cover, it’s kind of like winning the lottery."

But some have questioned whether being a size 22 is promoting healthy lifestyle, and to that, Tess says, "I think size is an indicator of health and I feel like health is so personal for everybody. And it's really like my business and everybody's business, like what we do with our bodies, and what healthy means to us. And I just ignore them and keep living the dream."