Model Tess Holliday hits back at backlash over bikini photo on yacht
Tess Holliday has shared a photo of her living her best life on a yacht, in response to the backlash she received for sharing photos previously.
The plus-size model showed herself sunning it up in Italy in an olive green bikini.
Holliday previously shared some pics on the vacation and people were quick to criticise and posted mean comments about her figure.
Fortunately, Holliday doesn't seem too bothered.
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She shared another snap with a comeback caption: "Another photo of me on a yacht in Italy just because my haters loved it so much,
“Feeling blessed," added the mum-of-two, who has sons Rylee, 20, and Bowie, 10.
The star also took the time to thank those who had been kind: "For the ones showing me love: thank you!”
“To everyone else: I hope you find the love within yourself that you clearly need.”
Holliday has been modelling since she made her New York Fashion Week debut in 2019 with swimsuit brand Chromat.
She went on to write a book called Take Up Space, Y’all, and also coined the hashtag for body positivity which went viral in 2018: #EffYourBeautyStandards
In another post, Holliday wrote: "People have always made my body the most interesting thing about me. I never have.”
“I’m too busy living my life, loving myself, raising my kids, working, laughing, creating, and actually being happy,” she added.
“Maybe if some of you spent a little less time obsessing over the size of my body and a little more time tending to your own lives, you’d be happier too.”
In a past interview with Self, she explained: “In the beginning I used to say, ‘I’m healthy, my cholesterol’s fine, I don’t have high blood pressure, I don’t have diabetes,’”
However, she soon corrected herself: "By telling people that you see a doctor, and telling people that you're healthy, it's perpetuating the abuse against bigger bodies and the mindset that we owe it to people to be healthy.”
"The reality is I don't owe you s*** and I don't have to prove that I'm healthy or not, because it is nobody's business," she insisted.
She shared another shot of her clad in lingerie, with the caption "Face card. Body card. Whole wallet, actually."
One fan summed it up: "I mean she is on a damn yacht in Italy and I’m not, so she is well ahead of me regardless of what I have to say"
"That’s her business and she’s on on a yacht!" added another. "I’m pretty sure her haters can’t even afford to be on one. I hope she was sipping champagne and eating chocolate covered strawberries."
She previously shared a video which collated together a lot of the cruel comments she received, and she clapped back at them too.
Holliday captioned it: “Sorry, I couldn’t hear you over how good I look.”
She hit back at another fan who said in the "age of mounjaro, what excuse do you have?"
Holliday replied: "Because not everyone wants to be skinny babe," over a pic of her in a sports bra, adding "Hope this helps!”
Needless to say, she isn't phased by their criticism.
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Jen Thomas