Model Tess Holliday is speaking out about a recent flight experience where she says she was instructed by a flight attendant to lose weight after he indirectly called her “very, very, very large.”
The curvy model recalled the event on her TikTok account, and said she was traveling with her 9-year-old son, Bowie, on a United Airlines flight when she got up to use the bathroom. While in the bathroom, Holliday said her hip accidentally hit the flight attendant call button.
An attendant knocked on the bathroom door, and the two began conversing when the model got out. Though the conversation started out OK, Holliday told her followers that things took a turn.
The man began to speak about his own sister, whom he called a “very, very, very large woman” he estimated was “probably” Holliday’s size. He told a story about his sister running into issues with her weight while flying recently, and said that he “did agree” that she “did need to lose weight because she was very large.”
The flight attendant proceeded to tell the 40-year-old that he saw she was traveling with her child, and that if she “cared” about her child, that she would “do something” about her weight.
