Model and body positivity advocate Tess Holliday stripped down for her Instagram followers, posting a steamy naked snapshot. Click through the gallery to see the fat activist’s nude photo.
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Tess, 33, posted the
photo in which she turns her back to the camera, showing off her butt and the tattoos on the backs of her legs. She looks seductively over her shoulder at the camera.
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Tess, 33, posted the
photo in which she turns her back to the camera, showing off her butt and the tattoos on the backs of her legs. She looks seductively over her shoulder at the camera.
At her feet, hugging her leg, is her friend Brad Walsh.
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She captioned the photo, “When friendship & whiskey becomes art @bradwalsh ? #effyourbeautystandards.” Eff Your Beauty Standards is a campaign Tess started to highlight the beauty of fat bodies.
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Last year, Tess covered
Cosmopolitan UK, becoming one of the first fat cover models of a major magazine. Some people criticized the mag for putting a plus size woman on the cover, but she told
Us Weekly that she embraced the haters.
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“I was terrified that I wouldn’t live up to the Cosmo girls and I know that’s silly because my body is a Cosmo body, which is why they picked me, but it is such an iconic magazine and I guess I just wanted to do it justice — and I feel like I smashed it,” she told the mag.
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“I was terrified that I wouldn’t live up to the Cosmo girls and I know that’s silly because my body is a Cosmo body, which is why they picked me, but it is such an iconic magazine and I guess I just wanted to do it justice — and I feel like I smashed it,” she told the mag.
“The more people hate it and talk about it, the more [social media] followers I get,” the author explained. “And those are people that could actually see my cover and move things forward and actually change things, so I embrace it.”
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What do you think of Tess’s naked photo? Sound off in the comments!
Tess, 33, posted the
photo in which she turns her back to the camera, showing off her butt and the tattoos on the backs of her legs. She looks seductively over her shoulder at the camera.
At her feet, hugging her leg, is her friend Brad Walsh.
She captioned the photo, “When friendship & whiskey becomes art @bradwalsh ? #effyourbeautystandards.” Eff Your Beauty Standards is a campaign Tess started to highlight the beauty of fat bodies.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
Last year, Tess covered
Cosmopolitan UK, becoming one of the first fat cover models of a major magazine. Some people criticized the mag for putting a plus size woman on the cover, but she told
Us Weekly that she embraced the haters.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
“I was terrified that I wouldn’t live up to the Cosmo girls and I know that’s silly because my body is a Cosmo body, which is why they picked me, but it is such an iconic magazine and I guess I just wanted to do it justice — and I feel like I smashed it,” she told the mag.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
“The more people hate it and talk about it, the more [social media] followers I get,” the author explained. “And those are people that could actually see my cover and move things forward and actually change things, so I embrace it.”
What do you think of Tess’s naked photo? Sound off in the comments!
Photo credit: INSTARImages