Meet the size-22 model who just signed with a major agency

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Arienne Thompson, USA TODAY


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Model Tess Holliday just went from small-town girl to fashion-world big deal.

Tess, a 29-year-old Mississippi native, signed a contract with British modeling agency MiLK Management and tells People that her success comes after years of bullying and self-doubt.

"It's something that I've wanted my whole life, so to even think that it's happened, it feels like an out-of-body experience. … I found out about plus-size modeling when I was 15, and I went to an audition in Atlanta. They told me that I was too short and I was too big, and I would never model. But I'm very hardheaded! … I was getting shoved into lockers, I was being called names. Modeling really helped my confidence because I started seeing myself in a different light. I started seeing myself like, 'Wow, I'm actually pretty.'"

Um, yeah she is! Check out some of her glam Instagram pics.

http://i.imgur.com/QJhwwzY.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jGlZGN4.jpg

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[Yt Trash]

Cute face, but that's about it.

[deebakes]

is she decided to become one of those "suicide girls" she could have by far the most tattoos of any of them, she has the most real estate :shrug:

[FBD]

http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1140169/staypuft.jpg

[redred]

did she eat jezzie

[FBD]

is she decided to become one of those "suicide girls" she could have by far the most tattoos of any of them, she has the most real estate :shrug:

:lol: could fit the entire spider man series, framed out

[DemonGeminiX]

http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1140169/staypuft.jpg

:lol:

[MovieBuff]

Her face ain't bad, but that body...:S

[RBP]

"It's something that I've wanted my whole life, so to even think that it's happened, it feels like an out-of-body experience. … I found out about plus-size modeling when I was 15, and I went to an audition in Atlanta. They told me that I was too short and I was too big, and I would never model. But I'm very hardheaded! … I was getting shoved into lockers, I was being called names. Modeling really helped my confidence because I started seeing myself in a different light. I started seeing myself like, 'Wow, I'm actually pretty.'"



As if... :rofl:

[deebakes]

she probably meant onto not into :lol:

[RBP]

It was her quote. :lol:

[deebakes]

i know, but most models are pretty dense :shrug:

[RBP]

i know, but most models are pretty dense :shrug:

Especially in this case. :rofl:

[deebakes]

:dance:

[FBD]

:hand: adipose is pretty much the least dense tissue

[Hal-9000]

As if... :rofl:


meat lockers..




:lol:

[Hal-9000]

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