In fact, you know what? Let's look at old photos of Tess, before M.ilk Model Management signed her in late 2014 and foisted her upon the general public.
This is probably from around 2009-10. This was when she was an actual size 22. She could still cross her ankles, a favorite pose at the time. In the next few years, this ability would be reduced bit by bit - first she could balance for a second while crossing the leg in the air but not on the ground; then to one leg slightly behind the other, then finally became the knee-pop-that-isn't, because no one has seen her kneecaps in years.
These are from roughly 2012, approximately the time she became the face of the television show "Heavy", a ripoff of "My 600 lbs Life". She lacks the upper thigh and upper arm tattoos she'd get in the next few years. Her back boobs were already in place, and this was nigh on 100 lbs ago. Look at the size of her calves in the second photo; they clearly didn't edit them down and they must be gigantic at this point.
This photographer used to work with her quite a bit when she first moved to LA from Seattle, but refused to continue after a while because of the straight ridiculous amount of editing Tess would demand. This is probably also around 2012 due to lack of tattoos, but it's hard to tell because Tess wanted to glow brighter than the sun here.
Ironically, Tess would pile on the pounds in the years after that "Heavy" ad was shot. These glorious shots are from 2014, before she had a team around her at all times to prevent such photos from being taken or published.
The first was taken at her "Eff Your Beauty Standards" Tour, where she sold merch at ticketed meet-and-greets with fatties. Yes, they paid money to have an opportunity to buy her $40 t-shirts, which were cheap material with an iron-on patch. Fans reported that the patch pretty much started falling apart at the first washing. The second photo is a video still the Daily Fail published, and I love it. At this point, Tess wasn't the Queen of the Fatties yet, and she still had to play second fiddle to fatty friends who were more famous than her. I believe this was filmed in early 2014, as it's before her Dolly and Divine tattoos were done.
Nick moved from Australia to LA in late 2014, and that's when the most recent weight gain came and she reached her Final Form of ~350 lbs at 5'3". This was taken in earl 2015, shortly before her second pregnancy.
Her face maintained its odd lack of chins and cheek fat until AFTER she birthed her second calf. She was pretty careful during that pregnancy and appeared to remain weight neutral during, which is a pretty amazing feat for an unrepentant fat. But as soon as that kid came out, she ate her way back to her previous weight, and this time, it didn't keep off her face.
We've recently also seen evidence that the bulbous fat deposits in her upper arms and legs and drooping badly; the surface of the skin on her body is pitted, rough, and likely infected in places due to wet folds and rubbing (she wears shape wear at every event, that'll take a toll.) In short, her value as a token fatty ends when her face reflects reality; and her value at the hottest fattie for feeders and fats ends when her body and skin begins to break down under the strain. The last bastion for attention is the feeder market and private cam shows; wonder how long it'll take her to end up there - or whether she goes the WLS and skin surgery route, "changed muh life, give me a photo spread in People", etc.
