Model Tess Holliday Says United Flight Attendant Told Her to 'Lose Weight'

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Model and activist Tess Holliday is speaking out after she says a flight attendant told her to "lose weight"

The incident allegedly occurred on a flight departing from Tampa, when Holliday accidentally bumped the attendant call button with her hip

Holliday was traveling on the flight with her 9-year-old son, Bowie

Tess Holliday is speaking out after she says a flight attendant told her to “lose weight” while she was traveling.

The model and activist says that she was traveling first class on a United flight leaving Tampa when she received the unsolicited advice from the flight attendant.

“I was in the restroom and my hip hit the flight attendant call button,” she told PEOPLE exclusively. “When I came out of the bathroom, the flight attendant then started to tell me that