Size 22 Mississippi mother Tess Holliday has proven her critics wrong and, after years of trying, been signed by a modelling agency who is hailing her as the largest professional plus-size model in the business.
'I feel like it's breaking ground,' the 29-year-old told The New York Daily News.
'This is a milestone. I never could have imagined that I could be here.'
Holliday endured years of bulling during her small town upbringing in Laurel, and the abuse she suffered would continue through to her adult life and career.
'It took a really long time to get over things that had happened to me during the vital years of my life,' she said.
As a teenager, Holliday traveled to Atlanta for a model casting, but, at 5 feet 5, was told she was too short and too big.
'My mom always encouraged me,' she said.
'But the rest of my friends and family thought I was nuts.'
Holliday puts her determination down to her activeness.
Lazy she is not.
Holliday has a nine-year-old son, a husband, she works out with a trainer, and is now getting a steady stream of work.
'I never sit down. If I'm not shooting twelve hours a day, I'm out doing errands and going to meetings,' Holliday told The Daily News.
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