{"id":833059,"date":"2026-11-13T06:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T06:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/833059\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T06:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T06:40:14","slug":"plus-size-model-tess-holliday-slams-fitness-community-for-making-it-so-hard-for-bigger-people-to-lose-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/833059\/","title":{"rendered":"Plus-size model Tess Holliday slams fitness community for ‘making it so hard’ for bigger people to lose weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plus-size model Tess Holliday has clapped back at people who ‘stare at her’ and ‘videotape her’ at the gym, as she hit out at the fitness community for ‘making it so hard’ for bigger people to lose weight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Social media star and best selling author Holliday, 41, took to TikTok<\/a>\u00a0recently to share her frustrations over the ‘lack of accessibility’ when it comes to workout equipment and clothes.<\/p>\n

She explained that she had been ‘going to the gym a lot lately’ but noticed that many of the machines weren’t equipped for her body type.<\/p>\n

She also slammed people who give her looks when she’s working out, while claiming that\u00a0‘the fitness industry doesn’t actually want plus-size people in their spaces.’<\/p>\n

‘The leg machine – I can’t even put my legs through,’ she raged in the now-viral video.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘The chest press machine is hard because I have arms that are disproportionally big so when I try to push it forward it doesn’t work.’<\/p>\n

The social media star claimed that oftentimes when she’s in the gym she notices ‘people staring at her, videotaping her and judging her.’<\/p>\n

She also scrutinized activewear brands for not making workout sets that fit plus-sized people.<\/p>\n

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Plus-size model Tess Holliday (seen in 2023) has clapped back at people who ‘stare at her’ and ‘videotape her’ at the gym, as she hit out at the fitness community for ‘making it so hard’ for bigger people to lose weight<\/p>\n

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Social media star and best selling author Holliday (pictured in September), 41, took to TikTok recently to share her frustrations over the ‘lack of accessibility’ when it comes to workout equipment and clothes<\/p>\n

‘And don’t get me started on the lack of accessibility when it comes to plus-size activewear,’ she continued.<\/p>\n

‘All these activewear brands will launch collections and they don’t even go past XL.’<\/p>\n

‘It’s just frustrating. Everyone is like, “Get your fata** in the gym, go lose weight.” Why do people make it so hard for us to do those things and for us to be in those spaces and have access to those things?’ she concluded. ‘I just think it’s really corny and stupid.’<\/p>\n

Holliday’s rant sparked a mixed reaction from viewers. While many agreed with her and shared their support, some replied with negative comments.<\/p>\n

And the model was quick to hit back at her haters.<\/p>\n

‘Plus-size is not obese… let’s be real,’ one person commented, to which Holliday fired back: ‘What\u2019s crazy is y\u2019all are in here shaming me and my comments and I\u2019m literally talking about working out. You\u2019re pathetic.’<\/p>\n

‘There’s nothing hard about grabbing free weights and doing free weight exercises until you can fit in the machines or\/and bodyweight exercises,’ a different viewer typed.<\/p>\n

‘I\u2019m already doing all of this. It wasn\u2019t the point of my video,’ Holliday replied.<\/p>\n

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She explained that she had been ‘going to the gym a lot lately’ but noticed that many of the machines weren’t equipped for her body type<\/p>\n

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She slammed people who give her looks when she’s working out, while claiming that ‘the fitness industry doesn’t actually want plus-size people in their spaces.’ She’s seen walking the runway during New York Fashion Week in 2019<\/p>\n

After someone wrote that ‘fitness is for fit people,’ she responded by posting a video addressing the backlash.<\/p>\n

‘In every lifetime, I would choose to be fat over being like this,’ she said in response to the comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I choose to show up authentically, to be who I am with no apologies. What an absolute privilege it is to be able to be in my body and love and honor it.<\/p>\n

‘What an absolute privilege it is to be able to share my love for myself and others with everybody else.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘What an absolute privilege it is to love myself enough to want to change things. I will choose again and again to show up the way I am.’<\/p>\n

After another user commented: ‘You have to lose weight first and then go to the gym to build muscle,’ she also shared a clip of herself lifting weights as she wrote: ‘Another day of ruining someone’s idea of what fitness looks like.’<\/p>\n

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The social media star (seen in 2021) claimed that oftentimes when she’s in the gym she notices ‘people starring at her, videotaping her and judging her’<\/p>\n

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Holliday’s rant sparked a mixed reaction from viewers. While many agreed with her and shared their support, some replied with negative comments<\/p>\n

Holliday\u00a0has long spoken out against fatphobia and advocated for body positivity.<\/p>\n

Back in 2021, she revealed that she was ‘anorexic and in recovery’ <\/a>after decades of struggling with body image and backlash over her weight.<\/p>\n

‘I\u2019m anorexic and in recovery. I\u2019m not ashamed to say it out loud anymore,’ she posted on X at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I\u2019m the result of a culture that celebrates thinness and equates that to worth, but I get to write my own narrative now. I\u2019m finally able to care for a body that I\u2019ve punished my entire life and I am finally free.’\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plus-size model Tess Holliday has clapped back at people who ‘stare at her’ and ‘videotape her’ at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[97,6647,102,655,93462,617,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-833059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-dailymail","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-lifestyle","tag-lifestylefitnesswellbeing","tag-tiktok","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}