Just a few weeks ago, Tess Holliday became the first woman of her weight and height to be signed to a major modeling agency. Now she’s changing the fashion industry and beauty standards from the outside in.
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People just put Tess Holliday on the cover. Are you paying attention, fashion industry?!
This cover is just the latest achievement for the rising model, who gained national attention after signing with a major modeling agency in January, which led to more gigs and the spread of her #EffYourBeautyStandards campaign. A magazine cover is a whole new level of success though, for Holliday and all of us.
Plus-size models are clearly having a “moment.” Thanks to social media campaigns — like Tess Holliday’s #EffYourBeautyStandards, among others — and major brands featuring plus-size models in their ads, curvy women have arguably never enjoyed this much visibility in consumer fashion. But there’s more to these apparent victories than meets the eye.
Tess Holliday shows the absurdity of plus-size measuring in one Instagram photo
Most women have a love-hate relationship with shopping. One thing making it especially torturous? Sizes — particularly when they vary so wildly as to toy with your sanity and self-esteem. The struggle with sizes is particularly acute for plus-size women. No one knows this better than Tess Holliday.
When People put Tess Holliday on its cover in May, the headline shouted: “The World’s First Size 22 Supermodel!”
The headline makes it clear: Those double digits are the most important fact readers should know. Because even when we trumpet that “size doesn’t matter,” we are proving that it really, really does. In fact, we’re obsessed with it — and that means there’s still progress to be made.
— Theresa Avila for Mic
Gross Internet trolls are photoshopping plus-size women to “encourage” them to lose weight
For every plus-size model breaking boundaries, there are countless Internet trolls. Or at least that’s what this new trend would suggest. They call it Thinner Beauty and are operating across many platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (all three of which have been removed), a subreddit, a Twitter hashtag and their own website. Their goal, in their own words, is as vile as you’d imagine.
Record-breaking plus-size model launches awesome #EffYourBeautyStandards hashtag
Plus-size model Tess Holliday recently made history when she became the first woman of her size and height to be signed to a major modeling agency. At 5-foot-5 and a size 22, Holliday — real name Tess Munster — is slightly shorter and larger than most plus-size models.
That, however, hasn’t stopped her in the slightest.
Nadia Aboulhosn on how we can get a plus-size model on that Victoria Secret runway
In just a matter of weeks, the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show will be broadcast on millions of televisions across America. And if history repeats itself, there will be no plus-size or curvy women on that runway. But model Nadia Aboulhosn has an idea about how it can happen.
Mississippi school named after confederate leader to be renamed in Obama’s honor
A small public elementary school in Mississippi announced it would make a big change in 2018 by changing its name to honor former President Barack Obama. And while this is a nice gesture on its own, it becomes even more significant when you consider the school is currently named after Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Read more.