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Tess Holliday Denied Life Insurance for Weighing Over 300 Lbs
Weight Stigma and Metabolic Health

Tess Holliday Denied Life Insurance for Weighing Over 300 Lbs

Tess Holliday, a prominent body positivity advocate, shared her shocking experience of being denied life insurance solely because she weighs over 300 pounds at 5 foot 3, despite no pre-existing conditions or medications. Her story highlights deep-rooted fatphobia in the insurance and medical systems. Amid GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic promoting thin ideals, she relaunches #EffYourBeautyStandards to fight back.

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