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How to Love Yourself with Tess Holliday

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Unladylike Media

Feminism, Gender, Media Analysis, Body Politics, Patriarchy, Intersectionality, Society & Culture, Cultural Commentary, Beauty Standards, Internet Culture, Womens Rights

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Self-love is easier said than done, even when you're a body positivity icon like Tess Holliday. We're going deep with the model, activist and tattoo queen about chasing her dreams, chasing off fatphobic trolls and learning what it really means to love herself.


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0:00.0

You know, it's easy to say, love yourself and do this and things will be fine, but that's

0:08.6

not the reality because the reality for me was I genuinely thought that when I learned

0:14.2

that it was okay to love my body, that that meant that I would never be in a toxic relationship,

0:18.5

that my life would be great, that my jobs would be easy.

0:21.3

And then you realize that that's all bullshit and it's not true and that loving yourself

0:26.3

some days isn't loving yourself.

0:29.5

It's having to sit and be okay with that.

0:31.7

Lady, lady, like a lady, like a lady, like a lady, like a lady, like a lady, like a lady,

0:41.9

like a lady, like a lady, like...

0:45.5

I can't enough.

0:48.7

Hey y'all and welcome back to a lady like...

0:52.3

I'm Kristen.

0:56.4

I'm Caroline.

0:58.6

How excited are you to be back for our first brand new episode of 2021 on a scale of 1-10

1:07.7

air horns?

1:10.2

I'd say I'm at like 35 air horns thrilled, excited, these words don't do my feelings, justice,

1:17.6

and listen y'all, we hope that y'all are just as excited because not only are we kicking

1:23.0

off new, unlady-like episodes today, we're also making some changes around here.

1:29.6

First and foremost, we are getting rid of those long breaks between seasons.

1:34.0

From here on out, we will be delivering fresh new episodes nearly every single week for

1:38.8

the next year.

1:40.2

We're also planning to try out some new episode formats.

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