Tess Holliday Promotes Body Positivity After 'Trolling' Chloë Grace Moretz For Snow White Controversy

Size 22 model Tess Holliday continued her fight against body shamers after Chloë Grace Moretz slammed a controversial poster for her new movie, “Red Shoes & the 7 Dwarfs,” which is a riff on Snow White. Holliday posted a glamorous picture of herself, beckoning naysayers to answer what was wrong with her body.

One of the problems Holliday faces while promoting body positivity is that she is supposedly promoting an unhealthy lifestyle. “Explain to me how just existing in my body is ‘promoting obesity?’” she tweeted Friday.

In another post, she got heated when a follower asked what “fat” equals. “Fat equals a human who deserves the same fucking respect as everyone else regardless of their size,” she tweeted the day before.

The beauty is an advocate of body acceptance, so it wasn’t surprising to her fans when she called out a controversial poster for “Red Shoes & the 7 Dwarfs,” which essentially told children that being curvy and short was less attractive than tall and slender. When addressing the issue Wednesday, she took to Twitter and tagged the film’s lead star, Chloë Grace Moretz. While it seemed like Holliday was slamming the actress for her part in the film, Holliday explained that wasn’t the case.

“The only reason I tagged Chloë in the tweet was because I was just a little shocked that someone who's been so vocal about feminist issues and things that this movie says is encompassing, I kind of was like, I feel like she doesn't know this is happening,” Holliday told Entertainment Tonight Online in an exclusive interview Thursday. “I wasn't attacking her at all, it was more like I was saying, ‘Hey, you're in this movie and why was this OK to say.’”

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But what shocked her the most was the poster itself. “My first reaction when I saw the ad campaign was horror, I think,” Holliday said. “I had to look at it to see if it was real, because I couldn't wrap my head around if that was a real movie poster in 2017.”

“The fact that they put on the poster, or it was implied that Snow White wasn't beautiful because she was plus size, part of why that bothered me was the obvious,” the model continued. “This movie, you're catering it to young girls -- young children, even -- you know, big kids like me who love Disney or just that genre. You're telling them that it's not OK to look the way they do or be plus size at all, and more than likely, these children have parents or someone in their lives that look like me. They might be plus size themselves, and so it's just sending a message that they're not OK the way that they are or someone in their life isn't, which is obviously really damaging, which is why I was so confused on how it came about to begin with.”

The following day, 20-year-old Moretz issued a statement about the poor marketing for her movie. “I have now fully reviewed the [marketing] for ‘Red Shoes,’ I am just as appalled and angry as everyone else, this wasn't approved by me or my team,” she wrote to her 3.22 million followers Wednesday. “Pls know I have let the producers of the film know. I lent my voice to a beautiful script that I hope you will all see in its entirety.”

READ: Tess Holliday Fights Snow White Poster That Claims Short, Curvy Princess Is ‘Less Beautiful’

After Moretz issued her statement, Sujin Hwang, one of the producers of the film, issued a statement to International Business Times on behalf of the production company.

“As the producer of the theatrical animated film 'Red Shoes and the 7 Dwarfs,' now in production, Locus Corporation wishes to apologize regarding the first elements of our marketing campaign (in the form of a Cannes billboard and a trailer) which we realize has had the opposite effect from that which was intended. That advertising campaign is being terminated.

“Our film, a family comedy, carries a message designed to challenge social prejudices related to standards of physical beauty in society by emphasizing the importance of inner beauty. We appreciate and are grateful for the constructive criticism of those who brought this to our attention. We sincerely regret any embarrassment or dissatisfaction this mistaken advertising has caused to any of the individual artists or companies involved with the production or future distribution of our film, none of whom had any involvement with creating or approving the now discontinued advertising campaign.”

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