WhatAMessTess

By now you’ve probably seen the screenshot of Tess Holliday, just Ryann back then, bragging about meeting infamous and convicted pedophile Mary Kay Latourneau at a Seattle bar back in 2009. 

Because more people are willing to call Tess’ out for being shady, she responded under her personal FB account earlier in the week. 

That’s right, Tess wants you to ignore her glowing post as a youthful indiscretion that happened simultaneously when she was 19 and 23. 

Here’s why it’s highly unlikely that picture was taken in 2004, when Tess was 19 and Letourneau and Villi Fualaau were married.  For starters, Latourneau was in jail until August 4, 2004. ( http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Letourneau-registers-as-sex-offender-1150919.php) Technically, Tess could have taken this picture with Latourneau after that date. It’s entirely possible even though Tess wasn’t 21 (the legal drinking age in the US) until 2006. However, there’s no way Tess was at Fuel Sports Bar in Seattle, WA in 2004 to meet Latourneau and her husband. This is because Latourneau and Fualaau didn’t marry until 2005. (http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Letourneau-marries-Fualaau-amid-media-circus-1174066.php)  Additionally, the bar where this took place started doing the “Hot For Teacher” night featuring Letourneau and Fualaau in 2009. (http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2009/05/24/inside-the-mary-kay-letourneau-hot-for-teacher-night/?source=mypi).  While it is possible that Tess bumped into Letourneau at Fuel on a random night in 2004/2005, it’s unlikely. Putting aside what is most likely a sloppy lie, if we believe that she was just a foolish 19 year old who took a picture with a random “celebrity” and then posted it to LiveJournal as an equally foolish 23 year old, her language in the post implies that she’s thrilled to meet and be seen with a woman who is mostly known for raping a child. By the time Tess was 23, she had a child of her own. As a mother what possible rationale could she have for saying that she can “die happy now” because she met Letourneau and that she “was more than happy to be a part of every moment”? Tess posted this in 2009, before she made it big, before she was an established indie model. She had no fans to impress by posting this picture. Her tone implies that this is a big deal.  Tess ends her “defense” with her classic “don’t believe everything you read on the internet” logic which is pretty tired at this point. Contrary to what she thinks, it constitutes neither an apology nor a defense for her actions. 

If she’s sincerely ashamed of her LiveJournal, if this was all just a youthful mistake, why not delete the entire thing? Surely, she can use her Z-list status to get her internet past scrubbed. I’m sure there are stans who would it for free. I’m sure Pennignton’s would chip in since they’ve got a lot riding on her clothing line. 

source: www.tess-munster.highwire.com

@tesshollidayofficial your Facebook fans doxxed a kid on New Year and you have been caught publicly supporting the online bullying of your critics 👌🏼🙌🏼👍🏼 Do you want to be the pot of the kettle on this situation?

Tess Holliday Scam

“ There’s no doubt in my mind that you all know who Tess Holliday is. Founder of “Eff your beauty standards”, plus size model, (apparent) body positivity icon.. oh, and scam artist!

 In November 2014 hundreds of her loyal fans purchased shirts with her “EYBS” branding emblazoned on them,also under the impression that a portion of the proceeds would be donated to a Domestic Violence charity (many fans have said that the reason they were able to justify spending $40 on a shirt is that they were glad that some of the money would to go a DV charity). Not only did hundreds of fans NEVER receive their shirts/merchandise, but not a single cent went to charity. Fans asked Holliday why they hadn’t received their items yet via Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, only to be blocked by her (Tess herself has admitted that she is in control of all of her social media accounts). 

After several attemps by many disappointed fans, the Facebook group “Eff your Customer Service” began. With now 450 members, Holliday could no longer ignore the fans who had rallied against her. 

Still, many were disappointed that none of the proceeds from their purchases were going to the DV charity as they had been lead to believe. Holliday claims that the reason for this is because EYBS operated at a loss, despite doing their own packing, advertising and selling shirts at $40 each. Fans asked her why she couldn’t just donate some of her own fortune to the charity to write her wrongs, however no comment was made. Holliday (whose real name is Ryann Maegan) claims to earn 6 figures, and her constant updates on her expensive lifestyle understandably angered fans who were left with no refund, no shirt, and no DV charity contribution.

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these people

and still do not have your merchandise after waiting for months or years, consider filing a police report the the Pasadena, California police department. You will need to tell them that Ryann Hoven, a Pasadena resident, runs Effyourbeautystandards and has taken money from you without delivering goods as promised.

The title of this story is revolting.

@tesshollidayofficial you have a known history of lying, gaslighting, blocking and stealing (once from a child dying of cancer) from your fans and colleagues but you’re the victim in all of this.

I don’t struggle to believe that you would commit charity fraud against the NCADV because YOU DID. For nearly two years you told your fans that part of their purchase would go to NCADV and not one red cent went to charity. You should be ashamed of yourself. You say you have sleepless nights over this? Why did it take you so long (you’ve had merch issues since 2012) to address it? Why have you never publicly apologized?