Hey guys, welcome back to the show.

Today we're going to be talking about the strange relationship between body positivity and

Photoshop and this whole story revolves around a woman named Tess Holiday.

I'm sure most of you guys already know who she is, but for anyone who doesn't test holiday is a plus-sized

model and unlike other plus-sized models like Ashley Graham for instance who really

isn't even that plus-sized I mean she's not that far off from your average person's weight.

Tess Holiday on the other hand is a bit more... more.

It's been reported that she weighs 300 pounds which is around a UK size 26 and I'm not even sure how to conceptualize how big that would be in person

But there you go she big girl aside from her modeling work. She's probably best known for promoting the F-Your Beauty Standards

Movement, which aims to increase the amount of diverse representation in industries like modeling,

beauty, fashion, and just media in general. It's all about

hashtag self-love and body positivity and appreciate your body for what it is,

that kind of thing. As one fawning write-up about the movement in the

Huffington Post read, Holiday made headlines when she was signed by Milk Model Management as the largest woman on their books, proving wrong critics who said she was too large to model.

She wants to continue to help other women to feel confident in their bodies,

regardless of their size or what society tells them is beautiful. I created the hashtag

F your beauty standards because I was tired of being told what I could and

couldn't wear by the media and how I should cover my body because of my size. I

decided F that I'll wear what I want. That article was written in 2015 and since then Tess Holiday's popularity has really blown up, so to speak.

She's been featured on magazine covers like People and Cosmo as well.

And she also has almost 2 million followers on her personal

Instagram account. As popular as she is though, Tess Holiday has always been

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