Model Tess Holliday claimed on Wednesday that she was denied life insurance because of her weight.
“I’m sorry. Yes, I thought I could get life insurance because I’m 40 years old and don’t smoke, drink, and have health issues. Honestly, it was my fault,” she sarcastically said in a TikTok video.
“I’m 5 feet 3 inches tall and weigh over 300 pounds?” she continued. “And apparently that makes me ineligible for life insurance. Yeah, that’s right.”
She added that she exercises every day, has no pre-existing conditions and does not take any medication.
The plus-size model called the “medical-industrial complex” “fatphobic” and claimed that “the system is broken.”
“It’s my fault and my responsibility,” she added sarcastically. “And, to be honest, it won’t happen again. Lesson learned.”
“AAA, you did something dirty to me,” she wrote in the caption of the post, adding that she was “shocked” by the incident.
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Last week, Holiday posed in a green bikini with the word “fat” emblazoned on it, captioning the video, “POV: I lost weight but it never became who I am.”
She added in another caption to the video, “Imagine self-acceptance being toxic. It can’t be me.”
Holliday said she was reviving the #effyourbeautystandards movement, which she started, writing: “Because this message is still relevant. Thirteen years after I started this movement, we still need to be reminded.” “Maybe now more than ever.”
Last fall, the model said she went into “a state of shock” when a flight attendant encouraged her to lose weight.
The 40-year-old said she was flying first class on a United Airlines flight from Tampa, Florida, with her 9-year-old son when she got up to go to the plane’s bathroom.
“I was in the bathroom and my lower back hit the flight attendant’s call button,” she told People magazine. “When I came out of the bathroom, the flight attendant started telling me that she realized I was traveling with a child and that it was in my best interest to lose weight.”
She said she kept talking about her sister, who had recently been discriminated against on a plane. “She was very large, probably (Holiday’s) size,” she said of her sister.
“He told me that my sister also needed to lose weight and that the long-term effects on our bodies would not be healthy,” she said. “This went on for about 10 minutes. I think I just froze up. I didn’t want to cause a scene because my son was on the plane with me, but I was also in a state of shock.”
In the video, she said that a flight attendant said someone had complained to United about her sister’s weight, and that United had said things about her sister that were “offensive,” but that her sister “certainly agreed that she needed to lose weight.”
“He then went on to say that it was a joke to think I didn’t need to lose weight because I was big,” she claimed.
Holliday said she knows people who heard her story might think he was just trying to be helpful.
“That’s not the point,” she insisted. “You don’t say things like that to people. He said a million other things. The conversation went on for far too long. Thankfully, I stopped the conversation when another passenger came to the bathroom.”
In a comment after the video, Holiday said: “I spoke to United and they said they would pass that on and talk to the rest of the team. I also told them I don’t want anyone to lose their job. I just want them to be careful and do some sensitivity training so it doesn’t happen again.”
