Plus size model Tess Holliday reveals why she responds to haters with "love.
Tess Holliday uses her social networks to carry messages of self-esteem to other women - but she's also the target of a lot of fatophobia. One way she chose was to respond to these hater attacks with "love." In an interview with InStyle, the model revealed that she constantly receives hate messages, which affects her and is discussed during her consultations with a therapist.
Throughout the first-person text on the vehicle, Tess recalled once a girl described her appearance as "gross." "Instead of shooting back, I went to her profile and saw that she was recovering from anorexia. Then I wrote, 'I'm sad because you must be feeling really awful to say such nasty things. It's nice when you can talk with the people".
Tess also quoted people accusing her of "promoting obesity." "What makes me laugh the most? When people say I'm promoting obesity or recruiting people to be fat. If I say, 'I love myself,' and they think I'm saying," Hey, you need to be 150. " pounds, so you can enjoy life as much as I do, 'I have to smile. People act like I'm selling Tupperware or something - that's not how it works. I wish I had loved one hundred pounds less, but this is the body I'm in. I can't live life being unhappy, because I could die tomorrow.
"I get messages every day - and I have my whole life. I'd be lying if I said they didn't affect me. I'm going to therapy to try to figure it all out. I'll tell someone to fuck themselves if they deserve it, but I'd rather come." of a place of compassion, "he says.
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