{"id":2122094,"date":"2025-10-29T07:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2122094"},"modified":"2025-10-29T07:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:12:07","slug":"plus-size-model-tess-holliday-claims-united-airlines-flight-attendant-told-her-to-lose-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/plus-size-model-tess-holliday-claims-united-airlines-flight-attendant-told-her-to-lose-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Plus size model Tess Holliday claims United Airlines flight attendant told her to lose weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F10%2Fnewspress-collage-h3gt6ovnx-1761720032317.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261761705655\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Plus-size model\u00a0Tess Holliday said this week that she was recently told to lose weight by a flight attendant, and it left her in a \u201cstate of shock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old said she was flying first class on United from Tampa, Florida, with her 9-year-old son when she got up to use the airplane bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in the restroom, and my hip hit the\u00a0flight attendant\u00a0call button,\u201d she told\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/model-tess-holliday-says-united-flight-attendant-told-her-to-lose-weight-11838273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">People magazine<\/a>. \u201cWhen I came out of the bathroom, the flight attendant then started to tell me that they noticed I was traveling with my child, and that losing weight would be in my best interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said he continued to tell her about his sister whom he said was \u201cvery, very large, probably [Holliday\u2019s] size,\u201d who had been discriminated against on a flight recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said that his sister needed to lose weight as well, and that the long-term effect on our bodies isn\u2019t good for our health,\u201d she said. \u201cThis went on for about 10 minutes, and I think I was just frozen. I didn\u2019t want to make a scene because my son was flying with me, but I was also in a state of shock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holliday said in a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@tessholliday\/video\/7563389636010085662?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TikTok video<\/a>\u00a0that it was also an important flight for her son because it was his first time flying first class since he was little.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had flown when he was a baby, but didn\u2019t remember, so this was a really exciting experience for him,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Plus-size model\u00a0Tess Holliday said this week that she was recently told to lose weight by a flight attendant, and it left her in a \u201cstate of shock.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Tess Holliday\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Holliday said in a\u00a0TikTok video\u00a0that it was also an important flight for her son because it was his first time flying first class since he was little. <span class=\"credit\">Tess Holliday\/TikTok<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She said in the video that the flight attendant mentioned that someone had filed a complaint to United against his sister for her weight, and that United reached out to him and said things about his sister that \u201cmade him uncomfortable,\u201d but he did \u201cagree that she did need to lose weight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cosmopolitan UK cover girl said the flight attendant allegedly told her that he saw she was traveling with her child \u201cand that if I cared about my child that I would do something, that I would lose the weight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe then goes on to tell me that because of my size, I am kidding myself if I think that I don\u2019t need to lose weight,\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The Cosmopolitan UK cover girl said the flight attendant allegedly told her that he saw she was traveling with her child \u201cand that if I cared about my child that I would do something, that I would lose the weight.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Tess Holliday\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A United Airlines flight at Tampa International Airport. <span class=\"credit\">Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Tess Holliday seen on the streets of New York City on Sept. 2, 2025. <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Holliday said she knows that people hearing her story might think he was just trying to be helpful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not the point,\u201d she stressed. \u201cYou don\u2019t say things like that to people. He said a myriad of other things. The conversation lasted entirely too long. Thankfully, I excused myself from the conversation when another passenger came up to use the bathroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the video, she added that the same flight attendant came around to her seat offering snacks and allegedly gave her son gummies to keep him from being \u201ctempted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a comment after the video, Holliday said that she had \u201ctalked to United, and they said that they would pass it along and talk to the team member. I also told them I don\u2019t want anyone losing their job. I just want them to be aware and maybe do some sensitivity training so it doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital has reached out to a rep for Holliday for comment. United had no comment for Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus-size model\u00a0Tess Holliday said this week that she was recently told to lose weight by a flight attendant, and it left her in a \u201cstate of shock.\u201d The 40-year-old said she was flying first class on United from Tampa, Florida, with her 9-year-old son when she got up to use the airplane bathroom. \u201cI was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2122095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[345403,21741,402936,25747,402937,344052],"class_list":["post-2122094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-body-shaming","tag-entertainment","tag-flights","tag-models","tag-plus-sized-models","tag-united-airlines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Plus-size-model-Tess-Holliday-claims-United-Airlines-flight-attendant.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122096,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122094\/revisions\/2122096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2122095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}