Self magazine features plus-size model Tess Holliday on first digital cover

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[TigerClaws]

Self Magazine debuted its first digital cover this week, which showed plus-sized model Tess Holliday and told readers that her “health is none of your business.”

The health and wellness magazine posted the cover to its Instagram account and included a portion of Editor-in-Chief Carolyn Kylstra’s editor’s letter, which explains why the publication decided to give Holliday “a platform.”

“Holliday identifies as a fat woman; we chose to give her a platform because she has insightful things to say about thriving in a world that devalues bodies of size,” the letter said. “We also chose to feature her because size representation is necessary, especially for a national health media brand that can help guide the conversation about what it means to be healthy and how to make health accessible.”

It went on to add that a person’s level of health can’t be determined "just by looking at them."

“And moreover, you should know that concern trolling — using a person’s perceived health to justify making them feel bad about themselves — isn’t just counterproductive, it’s abusive,” it said.

Some commenters on the post applauded the magazine’s decision, with one user writing, “Thanks for showing ALL kinds of beautiful women!” and another saying they “adore this!”

[Captain Peter Blood]

That is all BS. Her lifestyle might be her business but her future health problems will be our problem.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”His mom tried to bribe her NOT to marry her son.”

Al Bundy would reply:”Did she try a bucket of KFC?”

[Rummyfan]

It should be a beach shoot. She would really take to the water.

She might get harpooned!

[EC Washington]

She has her clothes made by Omar the Tentmaker.

[Flaming Conservative]

No matter how hard they try, they will never succeed with (Men anyways...) in convincing that fat girls are as pretty as skinny ones.

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Speak for yourself. I know many men who prefer women with some extra padding on them, including my husband. “Skinny women are all bones and angles; not very comfortable to get close to.”, according to him. And lest you think he’s a loser, who had to settle for who he could get, he has always been considered a “catch”. And while I’m nowhere nearly as well upholstered as the woman in the magazine, I have enough padding to make me nice and comfy, thank you very much.

[Bodleian_Girl]

I am pretty sure that is a life-size tattoo of Dolly Parton on her upper arm.

You win the internets with that.

[nutmeg]

OMG. That is seriously the 'model'?? I thought it was a joke.

That is NOT a "plus-size" model. That's a super-super-super plus-sized model! :-O

[alternatives?]

“How about a mag that glorifies unemployed meth guys..?”

Some animals are more equal than others.

[chris37]

I love me some Wilford Brimley! Especially Evil Wilford Brimley >;-]

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

because you’re only wasting ink...

And a hell of a lot of it at that.

[Clarancebeaks]

What a porker!

[DaxtonBrown]

Guilty!
She doesn’t even have to commit a crime.

[Pollster1]

Posted out of consideration for the victims of this thread.

[SaveFerris]

[I love me some Wilford Brimley! Especially Evil Wilford Brimley]

Wilford tried to stop Jack from opening the relief valves. He was by the book. The book said you can’t do that.

Never bet your life on one single gauge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nemYBeT4aQY

Fortunately, there were no Soviet SA-2 or SA-5’s in the visitor’s observation area just above.

[M Kehoe]

“Plus size?”

Okay, how many “pluses?”

5.56mm

[Trillian]

First they ruined women’s magazines with commie politics, now this. Going out of business must be their business model.

[353FMG]

Mega Plus.

[sipow]

“the one on her arm” - lol

[shanover]

The same people are advocating for universal health and want taxpayers to fund her obesity.

Society is truly regressing.

[353FMG]

There is already a huge price to pay.

It’s called diabetes/heart attack/stroke and other unwelcome niceties.