{"id":90631,"date":"2024-04-16T21:39:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/tess-holliday-says-she-is-fragile-following-fatphobic-messages\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T21:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:39:05","slug":"tess-holliday-says-she-is-fragile-following-fatphobic-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/tess-holliday-says-she-is-fragile-following-fatphobic-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Tess Holliday Says She Is \u2018Fragile\u2019 Following &#8216;Fatphobic&#8217; Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/tess-holliday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tess Holliday<\/strong><\/a> is asking the public to stop criticizing her weight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/stylish\/news\/tess-holliday-in-a-string-bikini-celebrating-35th-birthday-pic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The plus-size model<\/a>, 38, posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@tessholliday\/video\/7358139331623554347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok video <\/a>on Monday, April 15 to address the negative messages that she constantly receives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing I\u2019m learning on this extremely fatphobic app is the minute you mess up, you can count on everyone to tell you how fat you are and that you should die. It\u2019s great. I\u2019ve honestly been loving it,\u201d Holliday said sarcastically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t keep it coming because the mental health is a little fragile right now,\u201d she continued. \u201cBut sometimes some of us are just doing our best. Sometimes we do make mistakes and we are never gonna be perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in Mississippi, Holliday was bullied about her weight, and the bullying has continued many years later on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe if we mess up or make a mistake and own it \u2026 maybe we could just not say that they\u2019re the most disgusting person on the planet and the fattest thing to ever walk the earth,\u201d she added. \u201cSome of us are just holding on so strong, and we\u2019re trying and that\u2019s not helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3580065\" style=\"width: 682px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:150%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Tess Holliday<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Jared Siskin\/Getty Images for National Alliance for Eating Disorders<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Holliday captioned her video, \u201cI really am doing my best and I love y\u2019all sm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time she has called out critics for body shaming her.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@tessholliday\/video\/7107439378179444010?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holliday responded <\/a>to a person who commented that following her on TikTok made them \u201cgrossed out\u201d enough to lose over 150 lbs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are seeking out content of larger-bodied individuals as a way to make yourself feel better, which is kind of a weird thing in general, especially when I can guarantee a lot of the larger-bodied individuals you\u2019re following have happy, full lives not despite them being fat, but they just are,\u201d Holliday said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m used to people using me as their \u2018before\u2019 pictures and inspo but the reality is that I\u2019ve gotten fatter over the years, my weight\u2019s fluctuated, but the one thing that I have maintained through all of this is my joy,\u201d she added. \u201cI\u2019m fatter right now than I\u2019ve been in awhile, but I\u2019m also happier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former makeup artist and hair stylist has been very open in the past about her body struggles.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2022, she revealed she was \u201creally struggling with body image\u201d after being diagnosed with anorexia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/celebrity-splits-of-2021-stars-who-broke-up-this-year\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Valerie-Bertinelli-Husband-Tom-Vitale-Split-After-10-Years-Marriage-001.jpg?crop=0px%2C59px%2C1200px%2C678px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Valerie Bertinelli Husband Tom Vitale Split After 10 Years Marriage\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Valerie-Bertinelli-Husband-Tom-Vitale-Split-After-10-Years-Marriage-001.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/celebrity-splits-of-2021-stars-who-broke-up-this-year\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Celebrity Splits of 2021<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tHeartbreak club. Not all celebrity couples got the fairy-tale ending they were hoping for in 2021, including\u00a0Shia LaBeouf\u00a0and\u00a0Margaret Qualley. Us Weekly\u00a0confirmed on January 7 that the\u00a0Even Stevens\u00a0alum and the\u00a0Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actress had split after one month of dating. The pair\u2019s breakup came amid LaBeouf\u2019s legal trouble with ex-girlfriend\u00a0FKA Twigs, who accused [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been almost debilitating because even though y\u2019all see me out having fun, it sometimes takes so much work &amp; energy just to be able to leave the house,\u201d Holliday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CcoS3nWvGz9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote on Instagram<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2021, she also discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CXXB9bUvM90\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suffering from body dysmorphia <\/a>\u2014 a mental health disorder in which people obsess over perceived flaws in their appearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy body dysmorphia has been really trying me lately and when photos from previous years pop up while I\u2019m scrolling through my phone, it causes me to spiral a bit,\u201d Holliday wrote via Instagram.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Her post included photos that she said represented a very difficult time when she was also dealing with anorexia, as well as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/tess-holliday-talks-healing-after-allegedly-toxic-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201ctoxic\u201d marriage<\/a> from 2015-2020 with ex-husband <strong>Nick Holliday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to check myself and ask: \u2018Why are you really sad?\u2019 Because I like how I looked there \u2014 but I was also in the throes of my most disordered eating, in an abusive relationship, and so deeply unhappy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>If you or someone you know struggles with body dysmorphia or an eating disorder, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaleatingdisorders.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Eating Disorders (NEDA)<\/a> website or call their hotline at (800) 931-2237 to get help.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-body\/news\/tess-holliday-says-she-is-fragile-following-fatphobic-messages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tess Holliday is asking the public to stop criticizing her weight. The plus-size model, 38, posted a TikTok video on Monday, April 15 to address the negative messages that she constantly receives. \u201cOne thing I\u2019m learning on this extremely fatphobic app is the minute you mess up, you can count on everyone to tell you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}