Plus-size model Tess Holliday said this week that she was recently told to lose weight by a flight attendant, and it left her in a “state of shock.”

The 40-year-old said she was flying first class on United from Tampa, Florida, with her 9-year-old son when she got up to use the airplane bathroom.

“I was in the restroom, and my hip hit the flight attendant call button,” she told People magazine . “When I came out of the bathroom, the flight attendant then started to tell me that they noticed I was traveling with my child, and that losing weight would be in my best interest.”

She said he continued to tell her about his sister whom he said was “very, very large, probably [Holliday’s] size,” who had been discriminated against on a flight recently.

“He said that his sister needed to lose

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