Tess Holliday Quotes

I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.

I've always hated modeling. It's superficial and fake, and I hate to have to care about what I look like. I get a pimple and freak. The whole business is all about selling beautiful girls' faces and bodies, so how can there be anything intelligent or nice about that except for the girl who makes money?

People put too much emphasis on looks.

I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.

It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.

I used to do fake tanning because I was told that I didn't look great.

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

I hate being too pretty.

People don't understand the pressure on me to look perfect.

I was lucky not to have been born pretty.

You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.

I was always handsome under all the fat.

Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.

I care about being formally physically attractive in my life, and I think that I am quite vain about my performance. I'm just not vain about how I look while I give the performance.

I think modelling is a very difficult thing. It's glamorous and fun, but underneath it all, you know your flaws, and those are what you focus on.

Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.

People expect me to be thin and perfect... I'm not.

You see those magazines, 'Oh, look at so-and-so without makeup, Halle Berry without makeup.' It's so crazy to wake up in the morning and have that thought - 'Do I need to put makeup on? Do I need to do something because I know people are going to know who I am?'

I don't think I look great. I only see flaws in myself on the small screen. I make an extra effort to look good.

The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it.

As far as TV goes, of course there's pressure to look good. It's not something I've ever cared about too much.