Model Tess Holliday is a body-positive activist Swan Gallet/WWD/REX/Shutterstock
WOMEN’S glossy magazines often get flak for promoting unhealthy beauty ideals, but usually it is because their models are so thin. Not so for , which features the plus-sized model Tess Holliday resplendent in green satin underwear.
Holliday’s success in modelling, despite her UK size-26 figure, epitomises the burgeoning “body-positive” movement, which says that people’s weight is their own business and that no one should dislike the way they look.
“If I saw a body like mine on this magazine when I was a young girl, it would have changed my life,”…



