Plus Size Model Tess Holliday Is Making It Big
Marie Claire - UK|December 2015
US model ​Tess Holliday is an Instagram sensation, beauty icon and leader of the global size-inclusive movement. She tells Anita Bhagwandas about her turbulent road to success and how her most vocal trolls and haters are from the UK.
Anita Bhagwandas
Plus Size Model Tess Holliday Is Making It Big

TESS HOLLIDAY IS HERE. AT LEAST, SHE’S MEANT TO be. Not that you can actually tell. Because the sea of bodies in front of her, waiting for a ‘meet and greet’ at the inaugural Curve Fashion Festival in Manchester - the first of its kind celebrating fashion over a size 16 in the UK – seems endless. ‘Events like this help women realise that they’re not alone,’ says Holliday, when I finally get to meet her. ‘I think that’s the most important part of all of this.’

Holliday – for those who’ve been living under a rock – is the largest model ever, at a UK size 26, to be signed by a major model agency, Milk Management in New York. But she’s more than a model – she’s outspoken, calls out the industry for a lack of diversity, and is aiming to change the rhetoric around being ‘fat’ (her words) with a social-media campaign called #effyourbeautystandards. With more than 1 Million Instagram followers, and covers on mega US magazines People and LA Weekly, life is pretty sweet for a Mississippi gal who was a dentist’s receptionist just five years ago.

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