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Plus-size Top Model weighs in on big win

Posted: May 26th 2008 8:30AM by Jacki Donaldson
Filed under: General Health, Health in the Media, Diet and Weight Loss




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.

The world of plus-size modeling may not be large, but here are a few celebs known for strutting their full-figured selves.

Gallery: Plus-sized and proud

EmmeAnna Nicole SmithMia TylerQueen Latifah

Plus-sized Whitney wins Top Model crown

Posted: May 16th 2008 8:00AM by Jacki Donaldson
Filed under: Health in the Media, Fit Fashion

Tyra Banks' and her America's Next Top Model panel of judges just crowned another winner. Her name is Whitney Thompson, and there's nothing skin and bones about the girl who says she feels validated after so many years of being judged.

The 20-year-old Thompson is the first plus-sized model to win Top Model honors and the first of the show's winners to kind of resemble the average American woman. Media reports peg Thompson as a size 8/10.

Thompson said she's already heard from boys and girls all over the world who are struggling with weight and eating issues. "They're thanking me for standing up and saying, 'I am a plus-size model and I am beautiful,'" says this Florida gal who is the lucky recipient of an Elite modeling contract and a fashion spread in Seventeen magazine.



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