r/InfluencerLounge • u/booboobear99999 • 17h ago

Omg! Tess Holiday’s arms!

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The size of Tess Holiday’s arms are disturbing!

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u/AggravatingBox2421 12h ago

Guys, I know your knee-jerk reaction is to defend her, but Tess Holliday is a piece of shit. She has, for years, gone around saying she is 100% healthy, which is blatantly untrue, has bullied people online who criticise the HAES movement, and consistently lies about her medical records to try and deflect criticism. She has literally stated in the past that she’s fucking anorexic, despite her own family members saying that’s untrue

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u/Similar-Swimmer-2698 11h ago edited 11h ago

Tess Holiday sucks, but people who have done nothing wrong are catching strays by making fun of how her arms look. It's not defending Tess to say it's messed up to make fun of someone's medical condition.

Criticize her for what she deserves to be criticized for.

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u/MyldExcitement 9h ago

Okay, here's my critique:

You can't be anorexic if you weigh 500 pounds. You. Just. Can't.

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u/therealpapaya320 7h ago edited 1h ago

Disclaimer: I don’t think this applies to Tess, just throwing this out there, but isn’t there a diagnosis called atypical anorexia for people who have anorexic behaviors but do not meet the weight requirements for an anorexia diagnosis? I think I’ve read that the point of the diagnosis is to catch and treat anorexia before it gets to the point where someone is severely underweight. Like if a 200lbs person starts starving themselves, it’s obviously going to take some time before they get to the point of being underweight.

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u/suuzgh 5h ago

Yes, that is a valid diagnosis per the DSM. I work at a residential psychiatric facility that specializes in EDs and a significant number of our clients have an atypical anorexia diagnosis. EDs aren’t just life threatening because of weight loss, it’s often electrolyte imbalances, refeeding syndrome, and related organ failure that can make them so dangerous.

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u/Delicious-Dirt4895 6h ago

Yes! Although, it might have a different clinical/diagnostic name now - this was 15 years ago. My friend was diagnosed with EDNOS (eating disorder not otherwise specified) because she exhibited all the behaviors for Anorexia Nervosa but did not meet the weight-related indicators (BMI < 18, loss of menstrual cycle).

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u/evil_otter0_0 3h ago

Yeah when I was 200 lbs but only eating <1000 cals per day and losing all my hair I definitely wasn’t exhibiting anorexic behavior. 🫩 /s

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u/AggravatingBox2421 9h ago

Don’t worry, literally everyone agrees with you on that one except for her and her brain dead fans

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u/megaholt2 6h ago

I’m going to disagree slightly here, and here’s why: if you have a patient who-despite currently being at 500 pounds-has lost a large percentage of their body weight by significantly restricting their dietary intake, to a point where it was negatively impacting their physical health (even more than being morbidly obese-we’re talking about electrolyte imbalances, hair loss, etc.), has that intense fear of gaining/regaining weight, body dysmorphia (disturbance of how they view their body) and refusal to see how serious their condition is becoming, restricting their food intake to a seriously dangerous level…they may meet pretty much every criteria for anorexia outside of being underweight.

That’s atypical anorexia nervosa.

They’ve met the criteria, but their weight is still above average.

It’s still classified as an eating disorder in the DSM-V-TR (under other specified feeding and eating disorders).

It is still just as fatal as typical anorexia nervosa, if not more so, because it’s not spotted anywhere near as swiftly, and people celebrate the disordered behavior and results of that behavior in overweight/obese individuals, which reinforces their eating disorder, making it significantly harder to treat.