Tess Holliday Graces Cover Of Cosmopolitan And It Means Everything

Tess Holliday has booked plenty of gigs in her modeling career but few may be as important to her as Cosmopolitan UK’s October cover.

The magazine, on newsstands Friday, features Holliday in a swimsuit.

Holliday gushed on Twitter about her disbelief that she’s “literally a COSMO Girl!” but the message behind the photo meant so much more to her.

“If I saw a body like mine on this magazine when I was a young girl, it would have changed my life,” she wrote Wednesday.

One Twitter user summed up the impact of Holliday gracing the cover of a fashion magazine often associated with the very thin.

“This is especially great bc most of the times I’ve seen plus size or even just slightly chubby women on a magazine cover, it’s a tight crop on her face,” advocacy consultant Marion Teniade Johnson wrote. “It’s the 'you have such a beautiful face' of shots."

Not this time. And fans are pleased.

Holliday, author of The Not So Subtle Art Of Being A Fat Girl, and a prominent advocate for body acceptance, scored another victory recently with a see-every-curve shot on the digital cover of Self .