. >>> body positivity plus sized model tess holliday knows what it's like to be body shamed.recovery after first spotlighting an eatg dirder that gio both supportive and s here is abc's cannon whitmore. >> gorgeous. thank you. >> reporter: model tess holliday. known for her bright red hair and body positivity. she has amassed over two million follow owners instagram, and major brand partnerships. but below the surface, tess says she has been suffering with an eating disorder. >> i wasn't taking care of myself in the way i needed. i wasn't looking after my mental health in the ways that i should have. i was always making sure everyone else's cup was full and i wasn't filling my own. so i think that's how i went so long without really being able to address, you know, myself an >> reporter: the 35-year-old mother of two says her decades long disordered eating caught up to her in the last year. >> i would go all day without eating. and i would chalk it up to i'm busy. i'm this. but the thing is, i had hunger pain all day, and i was sick all day. oh, i'm busy. i'm a mom, i'm this.

tess holliday revealing her battle with anorexic.know. good morning, kayna. >> reporter: michael, good morning. tess says it was hard for her to hear that diagnosis, confusing even, and this morning, she says she's proof that eating disorders don't discriminate. this morning, plus size supermodel tess holliday revealing her struggle with anorexia. the mother of two saying she was recently diagnosed by a psychologist but has ultimately been struggling with disordered eating most of her life. >> i always thought that i overate, but then people in my life would say, oh, yeah, i eat more than tess and it was almost like i wore it as a badge of honor. >> reporter: known for loving and celebrating her curves as a body positive activist, holliday has been receiving support for her honesty from many but being questioned by some online about how she could love her body and also have an eating disorder. >> i've had a lot of messages from folks that are anorexic that are livid and angry because they feel like i'm lying. i am plus size but advoc

holliday it was also intense heat costs and all of that every single russian into his family archive and his photo album and think of his ancestors and what role they play oh i know for myself on this day more than most i think of my grandmother. houston is 15 years old when she lied about her age and she signed up to fight and she was in the immediate independent women's i was the foster polish an infantry unit in the red army and something unbelievably beautiful about the fact that decades of to she stepped up as a young child really to fight i'm standing here to try to ration slate's quite literally as a symbol of the future that she won for me i would have loved to hear me talk about the millions of heroes like who are courageous and beyond belief and who saw things that belief that they could know that he is in years have cost much fewer and fewer generations to the light but still to this day we live face. that involved. no one is forgotten nothing is forgotten. salvi its soldiers stormed berlin in late april 1905 by may 2nd the red flag was raised over the reichstag nazi germa

. >>> right now on this holliday weekend get away day you have senators stuck in a traffic jum of sorts. they come back into session as we speak. they're trying to get to a vote on that january 6th commission. first they have to finish up this whole other debate on a totally separate and unrelated bill. throwing up overnight and early morning roadblocks. we have the latest on timing as republicans get the first part of the phil buster. and we have new reaction on the breaking news from overnight. breaking news at it again. just weeks before president biden's face to face meeting with vladimir putin. you have microsoft sounding the alarm warning of a new wave of attacks. just ahead what the produce and the prem lin are saying and perhaps more importantly not saying. i'm hallie jackson in washington. with you here on this friday morning. along with leann caldwell. also joined by barbara comstock. senator mark warner expressed confidence or optimism that they would have it by yesterday, right? we didn't think we would still talk about this delay now, but it's happening because a lot of ove

realize, i feel inauthentic and i've worked my whole loved federal this guy and a guy in book, doug holliday, a former wall streeter and adiplomat and his whole somestick is hestick is his takes ceos and senators and wealthy prominent people on these self-realization journeyys, like disruptive experiences because these guys, they're empty shells. they're lonely. they feel like they have no meaning and authenticity, and he wants to prod them to find real truth and meaning in their lives. so yoga repeats for 48 hours and can't speak. he took a whole bunch of these folks into the church where dylann roofed slaughtered the people and traumatic parishioners and parishioners said we forgive dylann roof and told toll me they had a lot of angry people and didn't understand how someone could forgive this monster. so they have -- i just thought that interesting that you have to -- you're that rich you have to pay to have a disruptive experience and you can feel human again? >> one thing that also comes out in the book is the problems -- we have a paradox here. it's like the people that you guys have m

a 77-year-old john holliday was leaving without electricity and water and sewage for more than a yeart together, worked around the clock, rain, snow, everything paid they finished his home in just 51 days. he said he was in tears he was so moved by what they did for him. kevin come on you that? >> yet, i heard you just fine. i love that story bit i want to leave you with something. it's been very difficult for kids all over the country. just this idea of out of school, you are sick, something might happen. but on occasion, you're welcome back to school by your friends and family. i know that there are numerous occasions when students are out for various reasons. and i just want the people at home to know that even though a lot of kids need to be back in school, when you do come back sometimes it means just as much to them as anybody. not just parents and teachers, but it means so much to the kids. and that is my thought. >> shannon: thank you, kevin. r friends in awkward positions? [sneezes] stick with zyrtec. zyrtec starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you tak

joining me now, author of "lives of the stoics," ryan holliday. >> thanks for having me. >> ben: i wasthis important aspect of living. what are some of the lessons that we can take away from the history of the stoics that we should apply to today, coming out of this pandemic, facing some new challenges in the nation? it seems like a time we ought to turn back to their lessons. what are some of them? >> that's right. just as we are going through a plague and racial violence and political unrest, this would be very familiar to the ancients, right? the antenna and plague, cato sees the collapse of the republic, but i think the classical virtues women the same, courage, temperance, justice, wisdom. working for a common cause, and that cause being liberty and equality and, you know, helping the less fortunate. >> ben: i know that you apply a lot of these lessons yourself in your life and it's something that you came to after having gone through sort of a corporate experience and everything like that. there are a lot of people who listen to you on these regards. what are some of the aspects

a lot of vests because i was obsessed with the movie "tombstone" and in it val kilmer plays doc hollidayyself was cool, which, again, just shows how much one can delude themselves looking back. >> we just saw a picture when you started stand-up the age of 13. you wrote your grandparents into the act and they loved it. how does the rest of the family feel about it when they get into the act? >> my family honestly is really mad when i don't include them in my work and honestly right now my sister is pissed at me she is not in my book more and i'm navigating that. in literal realtime. so, yeah, i'm at a place where they want me to write about them and if they don't -- my parents literally phoned me, you should have put your sister in the book more. like this is what i'm dealing with now? and my mom is yelling at me because my sister is not in my book enough but, yeah, that's where i'm at. >> you know, also a blurb on the book jacket and speaking of your mom, she said the book is sweet and funny but says i really wish there wasn't so much drug talk so how upset was she about the drug stories

it is a holliday. it is a religious day in israel.nd one of them they didn't want to go on camera because of the nature of the holiday. one of them said or asked what the rest of the world would say if israel had fired a rocket at a mosque. what is striking to me as someone who is an outside observer but spent some time here is how incredibly resilient people are coming right back to their place of worship, having cleaned it up having had a really close call. nobody was killed or even injured in this strike. people here are just used to this sort of thing. in southern israel we heard the sirens go off this morning while we were on the air and quickly got to the shelter that is in this synagogue. so far 3,000 hamas rockets have been fired towards israel in the last week. idf says this is the highest concentration they have seen of hamas rockets ever. again, they were lucky in the synagogue yesterday the rocket hit first in the rabbi's bedroom in an adjacent house. now, the idf is israeli defense force in gaza not going just after hamas