Plus-size Top Model weighs in on big win
Officially, the 5'10" America's Next Top Model winner wears a size 10. And yes, that may be pretty small for a tall girl -- or anyone for that matter. A size 10 just isn't all that "plus." I realize this. Still, in the modeling industry, it's apparently quite large.
It's a healthy step, says larger-than-average model Emme -- she wore a size 14/16 at her career high -- of the "plus-size" crowning of 20-year-old Whitney Thompson. But it's still ridiculous, she says. "In our society, she's normal."
What does the big winner have to say about all of this? Here are a few of her thoughts.
- Revenge is sweet, she says, after being called "fat" by mean girls in her Atlantic Beach, Florida hometown.
- Despite teasing, she's never obsessed about her diet. "You don't have to starve to be beautiful," she says. "I made that decision in seventh grade, when my friends were drinking Slim-Fast."
- About speculation that she hasn't always been a size 10 but once fit into size 4 clothing: Never, she reports. She was once a size 6 but shot up to her current 10 in college. She has no plans for slimming down.
- Thompson also says she was never asked by ANTM staffers to put on weight to fit into the "plus-size" category. Had they asked, she says, she would not have done it.
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