Info that was new to me: Tess Monster isn't just a hamplanet, she's a really bad person Choice excerpts from an interview with the Guardian: When Holliday was nine years old, her mother was shot twice in the head by her fiance, who was charged with attempted murder. Holliday and her brother subsequently moved into a trailer in her grandparents’ back garden while her mother recovered. (She remains paralysed and disabled.) Holliday relays these facts so dispassionately that I’m astounded. “I mean, it will be 20 years ago on 22 June,” she shrugs. “So, you know, it happened a long time ago. And my mum is here and she annoys the shit out of me. She’s still in a lot of pain, she still suffers, but she’s here.” “I do admit that black men love me. I always forget that, and then I come to a black neighbourhood and I remember.” And no one quite knew what to say. Later, finally and effortfully manoeuvred into some lethal-looking Christian Louboutin stilettos, adding height to her 5ft 5in, she’d calmly told the photographer: “If you’re not shooting my shoes, I will fuck you up.” [she dropped] out of school aged 16 [because of bullying] Her fiance’s acts of devotion throughout the day include peeling a panty liner sticker from the sole of her sandal that’s been trailed in from a Brooklyn street.