Quotes from Tess Holliday

I've been called fat my whole life. I am fat, so it's kind of silly to get mad about it.

Miss Piggy's a big girl, and glamorous, and people think it's silly when I say she's a role model to me, but she was.

Obviously I probably have internalized fatphobia about myself and what the world has ingrained in us.

None of us have it all together; it just seems that way on Instagram.

I can never celebrate a success in my career without it being picked apart because of my size or 'my health.'

Designers are either not interested in making larger sizes or they don't feel that it's important.

For so long advertising hasn't been inclusive when it comes to plus sizes which is crazy to me.

I feel like it's important to talk about my health, which is fine, and my size because there are young girls who see someone like me and can validate their own existence.

I think it's really important for all young girls to see themselves represented in fashion so they don't feel alone in the world.

Just because we're plus size, doesn't mean we have to prove that we're healthy, just as someone who is smaller than us or average size doesn't have to prove they are healthy.

I think it frustrates me that so many people have bought into the idea of what we should look like instead of actually giving a crap about everyone around you.

Being able to love who I was, while also understanding that I deserved to be treated with kindness, helped me create a more positive and happy environment for myself.

If you want to eat pizza, have the pizza. If you want to run 5 miles up a hill, cool, go run. Do whatever you want to do, but don't let the size of your body and other people's opinions about you stop you from living the life you deserve.

All I want is to feel good and really own my body, and that's what I tried to create.

Designers still won't dress me, and if they do, they will send a dress that doesn't fit me because it's the only sample that they have in their office that we can get to in time, and then it's hard because I don't want to support certain brands that I don't feel like are diverse in their messaging.

Sometimes I feel like a million dollars and sometimes I feel terrible. But I've always been open about the fact that it's OK to be human and embrace those feelings.

Millions of followers doesn't equal millions of dollars.

I think in the past, I was motivated by seeing what I could do with my own career as far as success. I was definitely motivated by my followers and family, which hasn't changed.

I've been thinking a lot about my relationship to my own queerness, and I think the word pansexual speaks to me more than bi does.

My past is just that, my past. I try to not think about it and only keep moving forward.

Learning to love yourself is not going to happen overnight - the first step is trying to be kinder and more patient with yourself, and I understand that it takes time.

Imagine just wanting to share photos of my kid and instead being told I'm unfit to be his mom because of my size.

I do admit that black men love me. I always forget that, and then I come to a black neighborhood and I remember.

I love taking baths with Lush bath bombs, or just sitting in a dark room and watching Netflix to turn my brain off.