Tess Holliday is asking the general public to cease criticizing her weight.
The plus-size mannequin, 38, posted a TikTok video on Monday, April 15 to handle the destructive messages that she continuously receives.
“One thing I’m 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’s great. I’ve honestly been loving it,” Holliday mentioned sarcastically.
“Don’t keep it coming because the mental health is a little fragile right now,” she continued. “But sometimes some of us are just doing our best. Sometimes we do make mistakes and we are never gonna be perfect.”
Rising up in Mississippi, Holliday was bullied about her weight, and the bullying has continued a few years in a while social media.
“Maybe if we mess up or make a mistake and own it … maybe we could just not say that they’re the most disgusting person on the planet and the fattest thing to ever walk the earth,” she added. “Some of us are just holding on so strong, and we’re trying and that’s not helpful.”
Holliday captioned her video, “I really am doing my best and I love y’all sm.”
This isn’t the primary time she has known as out critics for physique shaming her.
In June 2022, Holliday responded to an individual who commented that following her on TikTok made them “grossed out” sufficient to lose over 150 lbs.
“You 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’re following have happy, full lives not despite them being fat, but they just are,” Holliday mentioned.
“I’m used to people using me as their ‘before’ pictures and inspo but the reality is that I’ve gotten fatter over the years, my weight’s fluctuated, but the one thing that I have maintained through all of this is my joy,” she added. “I’m fatter right now than I’ve been in awhile, but I’m also happier.”
The previous make-up artist and hair stylist has been very open prior to now about her physique struggles.
In April 2022, she revealed she was “really struggling with body image” after being identified with anorexia.
“It’s been almost debilitating because even though y’all see me out having fun, it sometimes takes so much work & energy just to be able to leave the house,” Holliday wrote on Instagram on the time.
In December 2021, she additionally mentioned affected by physique dysmorphia — a psychological well being dysfunction during which individuals obsess over perceived flaws of their look.
“My body dysmorphia has been really trying me lately and when photos from previous years pop up while I’m scrolling through my phone, it causes me to spiral a bit,” Holliday wrote through Instagram.
Her submit included pictures that she mentioned represented a really troublesome time when she was additionally coping with anorexia, in addition to a “toxic” marriage from 2015-2020 with ex-husband Nick Holliday.
“I have to check myself and ask: ‘Why are you really sad?’ Because I like how I looked there — but I was also in the throes of my most disordered eating, in an abusive relationship, and so deeply unhappy.”
When you or somebody you understand struggles with physique dysmorphia or an consuming dysfunction, go to the Nationwide Consuming Problems (NEDA) web site or name their hotline at (800) 931-2237 to get assist.