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Tess Holliday
Ryann Maegen Hoven (born July 5, 1985), known professionally as Tess Holliday and formerly known as Tess Munster, is an American plus-size model, blogger, and make-up artist based in Los Angeles.
Holliday was born and raised in Laurel, Mississippi. Her mother left her father when Holliday was a young child, and Holliday claims her family moved 40 times before she turned 10.
In June 1995, her mother was paralyzed and disabled after she was shot twice in the head by her fiancé, who was charged with attempted murder. At the age of 10, Holliday and her brother moved back to their grandparents' house in Mississippi while their mother recovered.
Holliday was bullied from fifth grade on for her weight and pale skin, having a disabled mother, and because they lived in a trailer behind her grandparents' house. She left school at the age of 17 and earned her GED.
Holliday has also alleged that her father verbally abused her for her size, but that her mother encouraged her to become a model. Holliday has severed contact with her father.
At the age of 15, while she was a US size 16 (UK 18/20) and 5 feet 3 inches tall, Holliday auditioned at a casting call for plus models in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was told she would be lucky to do print advertisements or catalogue work because she was too short and big.
Subsequently, Holliday relocated to Seattle where she stayed for two years and worked as a make-up artist, hair stylist and creative director at fashion shows. She then moved back to Mississippi and gave birth to her son (at the age of 20). Then, following Hurricane Katrina, she returned to Seattle (where she had some pictures taken for her then-boyfriend and posted them on Model Mayhem in October 2009) then she moved to Los Angeles in 2010.
Her move to Los Angeles helped her gain confidence. She became a professional model in 2011 while working as a receptionist at a Los Angeles dental office. She responded to 'House of Dreams Model Search' by Torrid and was accepted. At the same time, A&E chose her to be the face of documentary television series Heavy after being discovered online. In June 2011, she became the face of the television show and was on an advert that ran nationwide and billboards across the country. Holliday has been featured on "fatshion" blogs, she models accessories and plus size clothing lines, and was contacted to audition for Vh1's The Big Girls Club. She has shot a campaign for Benefit Cosmetics, worked with David LaChapelle, featured in Vogue Italia and appeared in Nylon magazine.
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Tess Holliday
Ryann Maegen Hoven (born July 5, 1985), known professionally as Tess Holliday and formerly known as Tess Munster, is an American plus-size model, blogger, and make-up artist based in Los Angeles.
Holliday was born and raised in Laurel, Mississippi. Her mother left her father when Holliday was a young child, and Holliday claims her family moved 40 times before she turned 10.
In June 1995, her mother was paralyzed and disabled after she was shot twice in the head by her fiancé, who was charged with attempted murder. At the age of 10, Holliday and her brother moved back to their grandparents' house in Mississippi while their mother recovered.
Holliday was bullied from fifth grade on for her weight and pale skin, having a disabled mother, and because they lived in a trailer behind her grandparents' house. She left school at the age of 17 and earned her GED.
Holliday has also alleged that her father verbally abused her for her size, but that her mother encouraged her to become a model. Holliday has severed contact with her father.
At the age of 15, while she was a US size 16 (UK 18/20) and 5 feet 3 inches tall, Holliday auditioned at a casting call for plus models in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was told she would be lucky to do print advertisements or catalogue work because she was too short and big.
Subsequently, Holliday relocated to Seattle where she stayed for two years and worked as a make-up artist, hair stylist and creative director at fashion shows. She then moved back to Mississippi and gave birth to her son (at the age of 20). Then, following Hurricane Katrina, she returned to Seattle (where she had some pictures taken for her then-boyfriend and posted them on Model Mayhem in October 2009) then she moved to Los Angeles in 2010.
Her move to Los Angeles helped her gain confidence. She became a professional model in 2011 while working as a receptionist at a Los Angeles dental office. She responded to 'House of Dreams Model Search' by Torrid and was accepted. At the same time, A&E chose her to be the face of documentary television series Heavy after being discovered online. In June 2011, she became the face of the television show and was on an advert that ran nationwide and billboards across the country. Holliday has been featured on "fatshion" blogs, she models accessories and plus size clothing lines, and was contacted to audition for Vh1's The Big Girls Club. She has shot a campaign for Benefit Cosmetics, worked with David LaChapelle, featured in Vogue Italia and appeared in Nylon magazine.