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tess holiday has addressed a comment made by a flight attendant about her weight.
talking to People, plus-size models Remembering how she sat in first class A United Airlines flight She was flying from Tampa with her nine-year-old son when she stood up to use the restroom, and her hips accidentally hit the button used to summon the flight attendant.
“When I came out of the bathroom, the flight attendant started telling me that they noticed I was traveling with my baby and it would be in my best interest to lose weight,” she said. publication,
As she started to walk back to her seat, Holiday claimed the flight attendant started talking about how her sister was “very, very big, probably”. [Holliday’s] Size,” and recently she was discriminated against on a flight.
Holliday continued, “She said her sister also needed to lose weight and that the long-term effects on our bodies are not good for our health.” “It lasted about 10 minutes, and I think I just froze. I didn’t want to make a scene because my son was flying with me, but I was also in a state of shock.”
After the flight landed at its destination, Holiday spoke to United and said he “apologized for the situation.”
“I told them I don’t want the flight attendants to be fired, and maybe they could do some sensitivity training,” she said.
The model also referred the airline to the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, a non-profit organization whose mission is to “end discrimination based on body size.”
United Airlines refused The Independent’request for comment
Holiday has previously spoken about other conversations she has had with people regarding her weight. In 2022, she posted a video on Instagram detailing a conversation in a doctor’s office waiting room, where she revealed she was waiting and “minding her own business” when another woman complimented her appearance.
“She says: ‘You’re so beautiful. Your face is beautiful and your hair is beautiful.’ And I mean, I look like this, and my face is covered, but I’m like: ‘Oh, thank you!'” Holliday recalled.
However, according to the model, The woman then asked why she did not lose weight, Holliday recalled how she “kept saying to me: ‘Why don’t you lose a little weight?'”
In the clip, Holiday admitted that she is “no stranger” to these comments, as it “happens quite often”, before explaining that she usually responds in a way that defuses her “trauma” and people-pleasing tendency to “make diet conversations feel a little better.”
However, in this instance, Holiday said her reaction was different because she was “tired”.
Holliday said, “I looked at her, took a breath and said, and I still can’t believe I said this, look at me smiling, I’m so proud of myself, I looked at her and said: ‘Ma’am, I’m one of the most famous plus-size models in the world; I think I’m doing OK.’