Tess Holliday On The Cover Of 'Cosmo' Is Everything We Need In This World

This is a UK cover, it won't run in the USA. We have a problem of obesity in this country. Obesity is unhealthy.

Fat is fat.

Jesus! Women want to be lazy, obese bitches and still be found sexy. When people are drooling over John Goodman I'll get on the body positivity bandwagon. #equalityforall

Oh and she's a fat unhealthy cunt!

Tess fan thread

F all of you. Good, fun, sexy cover...should boost sales and help raise the self-esteem of some fatties...SHE'S NOT HIDING IT.

It's not some shady stuff like slimming down Lens or Amy...she looks great.

(Don't get me started about how fatties ALWAYS have to be portrayed as jolly roly-polies...that's the next hurdle.)

R6 Quit Eating So Much!!!!! Alcohol and food...the last socially acceptable vices.

But she is hiding aspects of it, r6 - she loves being made up and posing for highly contrived, flattering photos (where there's usually no cellulite to be seen), but don't you dare mention the fact she can't get up from sitting without assistance. She's only wants to be celebrated but don't you dare speak of the downsides, limited mobility, or health complications of maintaining such a weight. She isn't sexy to my eyes but I'm not a chaser. I look forward to reading all about the broken sales records ;)

Does she need help hosing off on her porch?

Tess looked amazing, even as she arrived at the photo shoot!

I think the UK has even more obesity than we do.

I think it's just as bad to promote an overweight person as it is a severely underweight one.

[quote]Good, fun, sexy cover...should boost sales and help raise the self-esteem of some fatties...

What is good and fun about being grossly obese?

Are magazine covers with dangerously under weight models positive because they may raise the self-esteem of anorexics?

Also: I'd love to see the original photo. This one is Photoshopped to death. It's just as false as any other Cosmo cover.

It's just freak show stuff. We haven't moved on as much as people like to think.

Clever hiding of her huge fupa.

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Tess Holliday opens up about being sexually assaulted: 'I didn't realise it was rape'

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If she's happy, good for her. I don't understand how she can be a model anymore than I understand how trump can be president. I mean it's like giving the Nobel in physics to someone who can't count to 10.

How much cardio does she do each week?

I'm guessing zero hours?

Obese and horrendous tats. What a role model!

get real, OP

Great. What about having some young kids all smoking cigarettes on the cover of the next Cosmo?

Same shit.

She need to lose tirty pound in a munt.

does she talk at lenght about her ass wiping tecnique? how does she does that? does she need an assistant?

I was 50 Pounds overweight at one point. It was one of the most miserable times of my life. I was so tired all the time and it fell awful.i lost it thank god but she has to be like 150 pounds overweight so how is she managing that? She is setting herself up for all kinds of misery I’m the future . She might be kind of ok now but that is because she is young. Someone like Ashley Graham I can understand . She looks sexy and is not an unmanageable size but it is absolutely reckless to encourage this kind of shit in the name of inclusivity. Also just not attractive.

What a timeline! The cover girl is a cover house and the blurb poses to the women of the 21st century: is success an illness?

I predict in the near future when Tess is dying of fat related health problems, she and her feminist media will be blaming society for letting her get away with being obese.

“I mean, they put me on the cover of Cosmo, why would I think anything was wrong?”

Where are the doctors who aren’t pussies, correcting this bullshit?

I hate bullshit like this, not because I'm against the idea of it but because it's the fashion industry pulling that insincere tactic of pushing models in the name of diversity, but then making sure to pick women who are still exceptionally beautiful regardless of their flaws. Is it really being inclusive if each and every time, you keep choosing models who are so beautiful that their beauty cancels out their major flaw?

What if Tess Holliday had the face of the monstrosity below? Would she be on the cover of Cosmo? Of course not.

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What a roll model!

Fixed that for you, r21.

I have a large friend like her, r8 and she has no cellulite and beautiful skin. I have a very slender cousin who is riddled with cellulite on the backs of her thighs.

R32 Therefore?

on the daily mail link there's a video of her working out!! she probably works out 2 minute every month

Lowest selling cover evah!

People rag on Kaia Gerber for being too thin...this cow should not be immune from criticism.

She looks awful. She’s not promoting anything but being fat and slovenly. She wants the haters to kiss her ass...well, the target is quite visible.

To everyone saying I’m a burden to the British health care system, I’m american so you don’t have to worry about my fat ass. Worry about what horrible people you are by whining about how me being on the cover of a glossy magazine impacts your small minded life.

She looks like she should be flying over Parliament Square in Westminster.

She's no Tess McGill.

She is bravely providing you judgmental queens with fodder to annihilate. Yes, you are much more successful and much more respectable than Tess because you can control your weight. Bravo!

Sorry guys, I really do not want to scroll through the thread list and see that pic again. I-G-N-O-R-E. Hopefully I'll forget that obese and tatted out image by dinner.

Yes we need more american fatties

HOW did someone sexually assault her? Roll her in flour and find the wet spot?

If I wasn't gay before, I am now.

She shouldn't be on the cover of Cosmopolitan Magazine. She should be on the cover of Fat Magazine.

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Tess Holliday, Cosmopolitan U.K., October 2018

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R48 Jesus, vomit! Now that picture is what the Republicans are scared of...it's called "Gay Recruiting"

She is pretty

Courtesy of Tess Holliday/Instagram

photo by Catherine Harbour

I was going to make a bitchy comment and then I read some of the comments on that Twitter post R38 posted.

A lot of the comments are obviously pretty nasty and now I feel bad.

She's got a pretty face and hopefully we will see her become more healthy soon. Each to their own. That's the best I can do.

🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷

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Tess Holliday walks the SimplyBe 'Curve Catwalk' during London Fashion Week on September 14

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Dead by 40

R58 They should have been honest and shown her jiggly cellulite on the cover

How did she manage to endure pregnancy?

I used to be overweight (though nowhere in that league) and it sucked. I was embarrassed about it, felt tired and sick all the time and had sore joints. My embarrassment and sense of shame is partly what encouraged me to lose 70 pounds and get fit - and guess what - it is not an impossible task - people do it all the time if they are very motivated.

If we have fatties on magazine covers how is that going to help people realise that they need to lose weight? Or is it just going to be acceptable now to kill yourself with food?

WHY does she have a giant tattoo of Heather Locklear on her arm?

Or is it Loni Anderson?

What was the reasoning behind the editor's decision to have a very obese cover girl? Obesity is not healthy, least of all attractive.

They should have posted a size 12 or size 14 model -- that's the average size of most of the women worldwide, not a size 40 or whatever giant size she is.

She is doomed to have hip and knee problems in the future (as well as diabetes, stroke and heart attack). I used to work in an Ortho floor and lots of obese women ended up with hip replacements from all the weight.

Magazines and newspapers are going under and they have nothing more to say or sell. This cover reflects this diminished reality.

Never get a tattoo of a face that's better looking than your own.

She’s a blob covered in hideous tattoos. But we are all suppose to applaud wildly to show how hip we are.

^supposed

she's on Cosmopolitan because she's as big as a city

Bravo ! r64 how did you do it ? Just curious.

I can’t get past the hideous tattoos.

Unhealthy and too many tattoos.

This would not cut it, 30 years ago.

Is this a fetish porn magazine?

r68, especially if one can say so about Miss Piggy.

En plus she's a muff diver. Have at it, DL ladies!

No.. just nope.

She's almost as classy as Pepina.

Nice set of jugs.

It's one thing to be big, considered fat/thicker naturally. There are all body types. It's another to be morbidly obese, which is very unhealthy. This is a bad message, and tries to make this part of a "normal, healthy" lifestyle.

[quote]This would not cut it, 30 years ago.

This wouldn't cut it 10 years ago.

At least with Ashley Graham she seems healthy though not super skinny. I'm all for body positivity but being that big usually comes with health problems.

What is hypocritical is that these ‘plus size’ women ALWAYS have ‘thin’ faces/jawlines. You would never find a woman with a face face and neck, double chin as well as a fat body.

So is this Cosmopolitan magazine a porn mag?

[quote]Bravo ! [R64] how did you do it ? Just curious.

Cut out sugar and wheat/grains. Just eating unprocessed meat and healthy green vegetables + dairy.

Susanna Reid defends Tess Holliday’s Cosmo cover against Piers Morgan

Yes I’ll drink to that — Tess’s health is none of my business. So get that swollen demonstration of it OFF YOUR FUCKING COVER.

Her health IS our business. It's because of morbidly obese people like Tess that the rest of us have higher insurance premiums. WE pay when these fatties end up in the emergency rooms.

Her hubby.

This must be an earlier pic because she's a lot heavier now.

The article is claiming she is a UK size 20. One of her blubbery upper arms alone is bigger than that.

For reference, here is a pic of a UK18 model in an asos swimsuit.

[quote]Also: I'd love to see the original photo. This one is Photoshopped to death. It's just as false as any other Cosmo cover.

In fairness Cosmo had to make some adjustments to make her fit, otherwise they'd need to incur the added cost of a trifold cover.

Yeah, who cares. Some of you bitchy queens seem to get upset over the simplest things. So she's fat and on cosmo? How is this affecting any of you personally? And r93, you're a fucking hypocrite. We pay for more than just "the obese". How about all the hiv poz guys out there? How about the non hiv guys who are on prep? Look beyond your sad, shallow little world. We're also paying for the drug and alcohol affects on most posters here as well as all the various mental health issues. Don't get me started on the mentally ill trannies trying to destroy gays and lesbians all the while demanding outrageous things.

P. S. Her husband looks like a stud and her portrait tattoos are quite striking and done well. I wonder who her artist is?

R97. You're coming to a gay site, but trying to shame gay men for finding morbid obesity disgusting. I'm usually pretty cool with the fraus who post here, but don't try to shame gay people for expressing their opinions.

I'm gay r98, so go fuck yourself. Take your own advice then and stop trying to shame me (gay male) for expressing my opinion. See how that works you filthy cunt?

wow, R97, defensive much?

I work in the health field, specializing in Diabetes. Our country-- the USA-- has a Diabetes epidemic and it's affecting millions and taxing our healthcare system. Diabetes is brought about by unhealthy eating habits, lack of exercise, but 99% of the time, it is due to OBESITY. Even kids as young as 6 years old are getting diabetes and that was unheard of 30 years ago.

So please put away your holier-than-thou attitude. And how dare you compare this with people with HIV. This is totally unrelated. Obesity is an American health problem. It's shocking to see Obesity being celebrated like this. This woman is UNHEALTHY.

R32, maybe if your friend asks nicely she can have some of the cellulite our Tess is showing off at r57 and r58

Christ I can't believe this is a Cosmo cover! She has no knees!;! This is not a body type to be celebrated.

Considering that gay men in the fashion industry dictate who is beautiful and who isn't, considering so many gay men in the fashion industry (and most gay men in general) hate anything "fat", considering bitchy fabulous gay men in the fashion industry can't wrap their mind around the concept that even though a woman is as big as Tess maybe she wants to lose weight but maybe she'd like to have nice clothes to wear in the meantime. So I'm happy for her because so many of you are repulsed by her lol!

[quote]Considering that gay men in the fashion industry dictate who is beautiful and who isn't, considering so many gay men in the fashion industry (and most gay men in general) hate anything "fat",

[quote]So I'm happy for her because so many of you are repulsed by her

Most straight men will be just as repulsed by her. Women too.

This woman isn't just fat, she's morbidly obese.

Celebrating her obesity is as wrong headed as celebrating the body shape of an anorexic.

I demand equal time!

One extreme to another

When do I get my Cosmo cover?

Healthy at every size!

That tattoo is Dolly Parton, right?

"Uh huh."

As someone said: if they wouldn’t run a cover glorifying anorexia, why are the promoting this dangerously obese cow?

The husband is hot.

You can do fat, or you can do tattoos. But when you do both, you look like a druggy webcam model.

R41 said

[quote]Yes, you are much more successful and much more respectable than Tess because you can control your weight[/quote]

Yes. Yes, we are, because even without fame or wealth and despite all that life throws at many of us, and being older than her, many of us still keep our weight under at least some sort of control. Several examples in this very thread

[quote]don't you dare mention the fact she can't get up from sitting without assistance

What? She doesn't. Why did you make some stupid thing like that up, thinking would boost your case?

[quote]many of us still keep our weight under at least some sort of control

So? Nobody cares about some unknown rando who diets. Your weight doesn't matter.

Isn't it strange how they keep trying to make 'obese' a thing to accept at the same time they're trying to shove other types of shit down our throats?

No thanks, I'm with the rest of the people here who think this sends the wrong message. Is there room for a morbidly obese and confident woman in the modeling and entertainment world? Sure, there are plenty of roll models now (yes, I know it's a typo and it stays) who stay in their own part of the world where they get those nice clothes someone above cites as the reason for this 'celebration.' This shouldn't be celebrated...we should be helping people get better because this is a 'disorder' and is not healthy.

Love yourself, but please get some help, Tess. That baby is going to need his mother in the coming days.

Circus Sideshow is so au courant.

Tess's husband describes himself as queer.

Those hideous tats are going to be grotesque, if she ever gets around to losing some serious weight.

More proof r118 that the label "queer" is meaningless

I'd pay to watch her eat on a webcam.

Agree with above posters mentioning she wouldn't be on the cover without her pretty, slim face. Put an unattractive face on the cover if you are really trying to prove something. Her face as not the average face for an obese person. I can't help wondering if she has not had to have lipo around the jaw and neck to keep modeling.

On the Cosmo cover it looks like they airbrushed out her straw and milkshake.

R97, R99, And what have you proved? You want to stick up for a morbidly obese 'model' (freak-show performer), but shame people with HIV and other diseases. And you call me a 'filthy cunt' for politely disagreeing with your opinion.

R98

These morbidly obese "glamour girls" never date morbidly obese men. They always lust after fit dudes. Sexist much ladies?

Tess could get a profitable side gig like this.

And I can't be on the cover of Cosmo because I'm not fat enough. What about me????

What does she eat in a day I NEED TO KNOW

I think I would rather see Caitlyn Jenner on the cover.

How much would you have to eat to be that big?

Tess's message to all those who accuse her of "glorifying obesity". She doesn't realise how freakish and stupid she looks.

Photograhers and editors slim her down. Watch her ig video to see how fat she really is. There is no way that level of obesity can be justified or promoted as a positive thing. Yes, it is strange that her face is so much slimmer compared to her body.

Her husband, who describes himself as a "queer dad"

I bet she fucking stinks in warm weather.

At least she's trying to tan that hide.

Some people just have the genetic makeup I guess to be bigger and have good structure to their face.

So, what, he fucks skinny dudes on the side?

[quote]This is a UK cover, it won't run in the USA. We have a problem of obesity in this country. Obesity is unhealthy.

There’s an obesity epidemic in the U.K.

r132 He also claims he was sexually assaulted multiple times. Not as a child, as a grown man, by both men and women:

[quote]People laughed in my face about how it’s not possible to rape a man. When the perpetrator was a woman, they acted like I should be grateful. When it was a man, it was my fault for being drunk at a gay bar. I was met almost universally with nothing but ridicule and incredulity. So I stopped talking about it.

I don't know about that r138, but he should be careful when getting drunk in gay bars.

[quote]Yes, it is strange that her face is so much slimmer compared to her body.

This has me wondering if that doesn't play a large part of her so-called "self-acceptance." She wouldn't be this self-accepting if her weight showed in her face and she looked like Mimi Bobeck.

Has she gotten even larger?? Looks like feeder pr0n at R131.

Here's a picture of her posing with her husband.

R132 What a queer couple

LOL r142!

r142 made me laugh and also hate myself for laughing!

WTF is this pic he just posted?

[quote]Magazines and newspapers are going under and they have nothing more to say or sell. This cover reflects this diminished reality.

[quote]It's just freak show stuff. We haven't moved on as much as people like to think.

Here's the September 2018 cover of National Geographic, which a for-profit magazine since 2015, when Rupert Murdoch took over.

Let's storm all the museums around the world which depict "fat women" and tear down these despicable images promoting obesity. Probably why are insurance rates are sky high!!!

I sit back and laugh at how society in general has embraced outrage culture to an extreme that hasn't been seen in history. Everyone is in hysterics about every fucking thing. A big girl with a pretty face and beautiful tattoos gets on a cover of a magazine and people lose their minds. Stop and think how exactly is she affecting your life right now at this moment? She's not, she's living her life and seems to be relatively content with life. Move on folks, nothing to see here. Work on your own life, that's all that matters.

And to the person up thread who is equating this to portraying an anorexic is dead wrong. The body is more likely to easily recover from obesity than it is anorexia. For centuries big women (ever heard of rubenesque?) have been portrayed as objects of beauty. There are some cultures today that think of a robust woman as a sign of health/wealth and is the object of desire. Never in history has a skeletal person been looked upon as anything other than sickly. This anorexic shit is the result of the unattainable constructs of beauty forced upon women by t.v., movies, and magazines all in the effort to make money.

R148 Such horse shit. Yes there is rubenesque. She is not rubenesque. She is morbidly obese. There is a difference.

Sorry r149 but your wrong. Thanks for chiming in though you filthy cunt. Next

..you're wrong that is... Lol

And you're still a filthy cunt

Tess is actually bigger than the whale in r142.

R148 is one of those stupid people it's hard to avoid on the internet.

My guess is that he or she also has some weight issues.

Please shit in my mouth r154.

[quote]A big girl with a pretty face and beautiful tattoos gets on a cover of a magazine and people lose their minds.

Describing her as a "big girl" is disingenuous. She's morbidly obese. Look at the photo at R134.

And no one is "losing their minds"...we're going our opinions. The one losing their mind seems to be you.

[quote]Stop and think how exactly is she affecting your life right now at this moment?

She's not affecting any of our lives. We're simply giving our opinions about the cover....as we do with so many other things portrayed in the media. Something wrong with that?

[quote]And to the person up thread who is equating this to portraying an anorexic is dead wrong. The body is more likely to easily recover from obesity than it is anorexia.

Recover? So now you ARE saying she's obese.... not just a "big girl"... and you're also saying that obesity is something to recover from. Well, we're in agreement about that.

[quote]For centuries big women (ever heard of rubenesque?) have been portrayed as objects of beauty.

The body shape at R134 is not Rubenesque

[quote]There are some cultures today that think of a robust woman as a sign of health/wealth and is the object of desire.

"Robust woman"?

No fat person is happy. They'd chew their right arm off to be thin and toned. And they are fat fucking liars if they try and pretend otherwise.

Who is this person? I will cut a bitch if she thinks she can take the place of America's sweetheart Chrissy Metz …..

As someone who's never been overweight, all I can think about when I look at R134 is how INSANELY uncomfortable it looks like it'd be to carry that much excess weight. What the hell does she do in the middle of the night when she's sleeping on her side, and gets a sudden itch in her lower back?

It's a shame, because she really does have a classically beautiful face—which, as other posters pointed out, is the ONLY reason she's made it this far; so much for "rebelling against beauty standards."

And R146 geez, that's gonna be one screwed-up kid.

If Tess cares anything for her child, she will lose weight. She is a very pretty girl but her obesity is too out of control.

R146, that's apparently his son playing on his butt, which is actually a very disturbing idea, especially as the kid gets older. There is some fucked up stuff going on in that household. Those people are a mess.

You can tell the fatties in this thread by their indignant responses.

R156 I think you have too much time on your hands, what with dissecting people's posts and all. You may want to take a look in the mirror(literally and figuratively) and do some self reflection. Ask yourself, "why do I need to lash out at others under the guise of "expressing my opinion""? The life you live must be so sad.. And r162, not everyone is a "fattie" as you claim who are responding indignantly, they are just wondering why would someone who should be comfortable with their lot in life complain about someone who actually is comfortable with their lot in life. I feel sad for all you angry, bitter, gin soaked queens.

[quote]"why do I need to lash out at others under the guise of "expressing my opinion""?

The one who is "lashing out at others" is you dear. Why so defensive?

The woman on the cover is horribly obese. Is there some problem with pointing out the reality?

If she were horribly thin we'd be commenting as well.

Relax and don't take things so personally. Ok?

I eat fat peoples excrement.

"Play nice, people!"

[quote]I eat fat peoples excrement.

Says Ms. "Not taking things personally"

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I could have lived a long and happy life without seeing that picture. This is one time the the internet is bad. Very bad...

I enjoy sprinkles on my excrement.

Wonder if anyone told Tess she would be pretty if she lost 200 pounds...

She's gorgeous, you bitches are just jealous she's getting all that meat from her stud husband.

In the videos at R168 and R131, is she so mammoth that her head looks tiny in comparison? Her edited photos are all so photoshopped and slimmed down that her head appears proportionate to the rest of her.

'My health is nobody's business!'

Except that you put your business on the cover of a magazine for the world to see and discuss.

Same with Tiger Woods. He cultivated the fame and interest and sold every detail down to his shaving cream preferences . He stuck his family on the cover of People to sell that, too. Then when the chatter turned negative he wanted to take it all back and claim privacy.

It doesn't work that way, Sweetie. Your choices, your blowback. You get to own it all.

The above poster is right. This is the tattoo'd/fat lady, formerly found in a freak show, wanting to get on a beauty magazine in order to 'deconstruct' people's perceptions and manipulate opinion. Demolition is messy, so don't bitch because you got what you wanted.

It will be everybody's business when our tax dollars pay for her triple bypass.

First they came for the morbidly obese.....

I thought Michelle Obama eradicated obesity.

Lol... No, she didn't eradicate anything but her husband sure stepped up the whole drone thing and eradicated plenty of innocent people overseas.

R166 that is the worst thing I have ever seen. And it can never be unseen.

R177 the only thing Michael Obama eradicated was her own dick

R157 is correct - no fat person is comfortable, happy or proud. I'm an Australian size 18 (which I think is 14 in US sizing) and I got to this size from eating shit and drinking too much. Now I bust my ass at the gym and count calories on Myfitnesspal but the weight is hard to budge. I refuse to get surgery yet because I want to try and lose it naturally. Anyway, back on topic, people like Tess who glorify obesity do no favours for fatties like me, just makes people despise us even more. To me it seems like Tess loves attention but can't be bothered doing any hard work - she makes excuses to herself and the people around her buy into it which further justifies her stance. And believe me, all those skin folds will stink. Even on cold days.

R6, she doesn’t look great. There are curvy, bigger than usual women who look great, and Tess is not one of them.

Tess isn’t curvy, she just plain ole FAT. Look at the size of that gut. And those tats will be an even bigger disaster if she ever decides to lose weight.

I understand how it happens. I’ve been depressed, and I’ve eaten my fair share of chocolate bars, but I cannot bring myself to “letting it go”. You know why? Because I have common sense, coupled with a healthy dose of vanity. I have a beautiful fucking face, and a fantastic body. I’ll be damned if I allow myself to become a fucking cow in some body shaping underwear. Fuck that. I have my pride.

This chick needs to snap the fuck out of it. She’ll be six feet under before she even turns 60, and assholes are cashing in on her poor health, while fat frauen convince themselves that it’s OK to develop diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease, all because someone touched them in their “no no” spot when they were children.

Get a fucking therapist, and a sturdy treadmill.

Well R182, I agreed with you until the "no no spot" comment. That may be true for some obese PEOPLE, but not for all.

She's unhealthy and needs to get at the root of her problem. Deal with the immediate fire first and then get to the cause.

She may not need a therapist after she likes what she feels like on the treadmill.

R183, Tess will not lose the weight. She’s a short gal, and won’t make any money as a model, at her height.

She hasn’t any motivation to get fit. Her weight is what she’s cashing in on.

I am really puzzled as to why people are enabling this. Does the industry believe that this is the correct answer to eating disorders such as anorexia, and bulimia? It’s almost like Tess is being used as a big huge middle finger to the critics. A parody of normal weight, in the extreme.

There’s absolutely nothing about Tess that makes her unique. She’s not unusually beautiful, she’s fat, and is covered in ugly tattoos. Hey, live and let live, sure, but this makes zero sense. It’s like the industry has decided that this is what most women look like.

I know that there are lots of huge women out there, but am I being naive to think this is not the norm? Or is it? Is this what the majority of young women look like in America and the UK today?

I cannot believe that the woman at r107 is still alive. She needs to be hospitalized, STAT. How fucking heart breaking.

[quote] I know that there are lots of huge women out there, but am I being naive to think this is not the norm? Or is it? Is this what the majority of young women look like in America and the UK today?

Definition of terms helps. Absolutely, women with measurements like Tess Holliday are unhealthy. The majority of young women in the US do not look this large -- their metabolisms are still faster than more mature people's. I am comfortable stating that most women I see from UK and US media are near Ms. Holliday's measurements. From what I've read and seen recently from the UK, the younger women seem larger than they did a generation ago.

A waist-to-height-ratio (WHtR) is considered at present a highly accurate indicator of health in both the UK and in North America. The risk of developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease begins to rise with a WHtR above .50 (i.e., subject's waist measurement half the measurement of the subject's height). The WHtR measurement is more precise at measuring life expectancy.

My source for this claim is the peer-reviewed research article "Waist-to-Height Ratio Is More Predictive of Years of Life Lost than Body Mass Index" by Margaret Ashwell , Les Mayhew, Jon Richardson, and Ben Rickayzen. It's not body-shaming to state that men and women with waist to height ratios over .5 are at increased risk of developing cancer, diabetes and heart problems), or that men and women with waist to height ratios under .4 are at increased risk of dropping dead from undernourishment and heart problems. "Health at Every Size" is an illusion. It is body-shaming to tell them they look disgusting, grotesque and freakish as the concern about health is entirely absent. If you're not paying for their food expenditures and medical bills, the only worthy critical remark is: "Why not talk to your GP [US: family medicine doctor] and take action?"

Without a measuring tape, I would estimate from the retouched photos in this thread that Ms. Holliday's WHtR is above .6. No respectable, sane physician would call that a healthy size. But there are decades of precedents of women's fashion magazines putting women with the other extreme of unhealthy shapes on the cover. Women's fashion magazines don't make much money from women who are happy with their physiques, healths, money, and love lives.

Including below a link to a Quartz article with a WHtR calculator so you can have fun estimating your own health risks (and maybe the health risks of delusional public figures):

I know it's cliched to say, but she has such a beautiful face and gorgeous hair. God, why would you allow yourself to get that big when you're that attractive? A little overweight is fine, but morbidly obese means you will die sooner than you should.

[quote]But there are decades of precedents of women's fashion magazines putting women with the other extreme of unhealthy shapes on the cover. Women's fashion magazines don't make much money from women who are happy with their physiques, healths, money, and love lives.

For the most part, the most photographed models of the last couple of decades have been fit and of a healthy weight: Cindy Crawford, Christie Brinkley, Gisele, Cheryl Tiegs, Claudia Schiffer, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell...etc.

On the runway, designers choose thin models because they show off the clothes better. Remember, runway shows were for buyers and journalists... not the general public.

Her own brother says she is a hateful human being.

Daaaamn, R189

I found a web page for Tess Holliday's measurements (height 65 inches), and her waist size (49 inches) is beyond the scope of the Waist to Hip Calculator at r186, in which the maximum waist measurement is 47 inches.

Looks like she has a tattoo of Divine, how can you hate that? Lot jealous bitches here. She's tremendous!!!

I don't know if she's a hateful human being r189, but she comes across as a complete asshole - which makes it even worse that Cosmo has decided to push her onto us so much.

The fact she took on a pseudonym (her real name is Ryann Hoven), and not just her married name, says a lot about her.

Wow r193, you're that helpless and not in control that you believe Cosmo is "pushing her onto you"? Christ you're pathetic. Try walking away from the magazine section and/or cancel your subscription. You're in control of your life NOT Cosmo.

SHE'S FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT !!

Would you want to see Michael Moore in a bikini?

"Bitch, you ain't got nothin' on me"

I hope they put Serena Williams on next month's cover.

To the women stating we are jealous because she gets to fuck her hunky husband and we don't - he labels himself a queer dad. I don't think she is fucking him that much.

Tess is a bitch, she took a bunch of money from selling those ghastly "eff your beauty standards" shirts and went to Disneyland. She also lies about her size, she tells people she's a 22 and they come to shoots unprepared for how huge she is and not having the right size clothes. She's totally airbrushed though you can't do anything about those fucking backwards knees.

Her tattoos are beautifully done. Wonder who her artist is??

Husband is cute too...

What if I have a subscription to Cosmo or buy it monthly or follow their IG account, r195, as many women do?

The whole point of pushing obese people like Tess on us is apparently to challenge the beauty standards that are supposedly being "pushed" on women. Why don't Cosmo or Tess just walk away from those standards? No one's pushing them on her (talking about how unhealthy and what an asshole she is is a different matter).

Scroll down on the link at R200 for "before" and "after" photos.

OMG.

This woman knows what she's doing as far as marketing her "brand/image". Sure she's a big girl but guess what so are the majority of American women. She's rolling in the fame and fortune, while the less savvy screech and wail about how fat she is, which I'm sure she knows.

[quote] Circus Sideshow is so au courant.

R117 I brought it back. And this is just the very beginning of a glorious new age...

The miracle of Photoshop!

R85 yeah, I've been wondering about how much the face has to do with it. Women's faces are one of the first things people instinctively examine for clues about health/youth and they act as a status marker for a 'mate'. The choice of Tess with the glamorous face and enormous tits makes this monolithic pattern very obvious.

Straight men go crazy for a woman who is (key words) *very slightly* overweight (think Marilyn) because the lizard brain does the talking for most human beings when it comes to visual sexual attraction. That said, I'm still not certain how that works for us, being gay and all, but I'm sure some bright spark knows the answer) or how it accounts for women like Holliday gracing us with her presence and selling out merch/covers etc.

It's interesting how lesbians take a dim view of women carrying any extra weight. As a size 10 U.S. I've been given brush-off by very athletic size 2-6 lesbians who think that anything above 0% bodyfat is disgusting. Naturally healthy women older than 18 will all carry 5-10 extra lbs of fat (so, not like Tess, ofc) and retain it because of evolutionary adaptation, but somehow this is unreasonable in the harsh les-eat-les world.

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I can't find varification, so I think the blind part is humor. Tess is huge, though. She has to be close to 400 lbs.

Making stuff up, R114?

Yeah r114, why would that be outlandish sounding to you? Have you seen her?