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    Tess Holliday Hilariously Hits Back at Commenters Who Think She's Lying About Her Clothing Size

    Body-shaming is a big yikes!

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    Tess Holliday has a lot of thoughts to share with commenters who think she's lying about her clothing size for some reason.

    Here's what happened: A few days ago, Holliday posted a TikTok from her Italian ~holiday~ which has since gone viral, on which she wrote, "Jumping in the Adriatic Sea as a size 24 with fans turned friends from all around the world because we all deserve to take up space."

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    When they saw this, some people thought they should inform Holliday that they didn't believe she was in fact a size 24.

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    In response, the model posted a series of tongue-in-cheek TikTok videos to tell those commenters exactly what she thought about all this.

    In the first she said, "I just woke up and I am so excited that everybody is so obsessed about me lying about my size, because this video that everyone's commenting on is already almost at a million views, so please keep debating, please keep telling me I'm disgusting."

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    In another video, Holliday said sarcastically, "Oh no you guys, I was just exposed! I am so sorry. I'm actually a size 69, get into it. I don't know how to apologize. I just wanna say first, get into it, yeah, get into it. But yeah, it won't happen again, I promise, I promise. And I am sorry to those of you that I have hurt and misled."

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    In a third video, Holliday just showed her followers the size written inside a pair of her shorts (3X), and compared it with a Target sizing chart, which (obviously) confirmed that this corresponds to a U.S. size 24 or 26. So, we good?

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