Posted on 07/02/2018 9:02:19 AM PDT by 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!”
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She’s so fat, she has her own zip code.
Dang! I posted before readin the comments!
GMTA :)
Morbid obesity isn’t funny or desirable. I don’t think we should mock it but certainly not celebrate it. If this poor girl lives long enough she will be facing multiple chronic health issues.
My fat BIL who does not have the will to lose 60 lbs is now plagued with type 11 diabetes to the point of starting insulin next week, necropsis of the feet to the point he shuffles around, renal problems and God knows what else. All due to overweight.
RE:”There are some men (a very small number) who are attracted to obese women. I think it’s a fetish and an unhealthy one at that.”
Like if she rolled over in her sleep?
Gotta roll 'er around in flour to find the wrinkle with the wet spot ...
IN before the ping Laz post.
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No kidding. Laz is going to be mighty upset with us for not including him on all this flesh fixation.
Mighty upset.
Her health is none of my business?
By that logic, my health care is none of my government’s business either
Fair is fair.
Is Michelin looking for a new spokesperson/mascot?
I like a sexy thick female but this is way too much!
One so inclined to do it better insist on top, bottom could be fatal!
Not even with your d*ck!
Then stop taxing soda, banning cigarettes, etc.
They can do what they like, it is their magazine. I don’t have any problem with fighting the devaluation of a person as a PERSON for being overweight.
I do have a problem if they are going to try to tell me THAT woman’s body shape is physically attractive, because it isn’t, and no amount of social justice warrioring is going to make any normal man think otherwise.
And the idiotic tattoos only make her look less attractive, and stupid to boot.
I cannot stand this leftist crap. I don’t judge PEOPLE and who they are on the basis of their physical appearance, but I get pissed when they try to MAKE me feel like there is something wrong with me for thinking a woman who has a physical appearance like that is wrongly “devalued” by normal people because she is GROSSLY obese and has a bunch of dumbass tattoos on her skin. That I DO have a problem with.
See #35
“How dare you say that to my face?”
“I’d say it behind your back, but my car’s only got a half tank of gas.”
I’d hit it. But would she even know it?
SELF!
She fits the cover perfectly for this GLUTTONOUS, SELFISH, PRIDEFUL, SLOTHY, and IMMORAL Magazine.
Is she modeling Diabetes?
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