Tess Holliday confesses: “I have anorexia nervosa. And I’m not ashamed to say it “

Five years ago the modella plus size Tess Holliday, champion of the «body positivity» movement, nshe hadn’t used turns of words, as is her style, to describe herself after the birth of her second child:I was fat before, I gave birth to a healthy baby, and guess what, I’m still fat. And it suits me. I don’t want to lose weight, but work to learn to love my new body ».

Now Tess has returned to make her voice heard on social networks with a post in which she makes it known that suffer from anorexia nervosa but he’s recovering (“I’m eating healthy”).

And that’s her eating disorder is “the result of a culture that celebrates thinness to the point of making it a value “. But now «I am finally able to take care of a body that I have punished all my life».

Holliday decided to talk about her eating disorder after receiving many comments about her weight loss: “To all those who keep saying “You seem in good health lately” or “You’re losing weight, keep it up!” Stop, ”he wrote on Instagram. “Just comments on my size. Just equate weight loss with health. I’m recovering from an eating disorder ».

Alongside Tess, as always, he compagno Nick Holliday. But it’s not him that the mother of two wants her self-esteem to depend: “Every day Nick tells me I’m beautiful, but our partners’ job shouldn’t be to lift our spirits, we have to be the first supporters of ourselvesHe explained a few years ago.

After the new post the model received many encouraging comments ma there were also those who questioned his eating disorder. The most malicious have written phrases such as: “You are fat, how can you be anorexic?“. She dismissed them like this: “You don’t know how science and the body work. I have one diagnosed with anorexia nervosa and yes I’m not ashamed of it. I am damned happy for you that you approach me only to try to attenuate my splendor ».