Tyra Banks has been wanting a plus-sized model to win ANTM since, oh, right around the time we were told to kiss her fat ass.
Last night, Tyra’s dream came true and Whitney Thompson was crowned queen of the Walgreens makeup aisle. Yay for her.
But according to Rich at FourFour, it was all fixed, like, moreso than last season. A reader emailed him an interesting rumor with photographic proof:
Whitney did not try out for top model but was approached on a plane by someone from the show. She was already doing modeling as a size 2 or 4 but because she was closer to a 4 she was a little too big for the show as a regular model. They told her that if she went and gained 10-20 pounds they would definitely put her on the show as “the plus-size model”.
You can see photos of her as a size 4 swimsuit model here. But that certainly doesn’t jive with what Whitney’s been feeding us all season. Observe:
But getting to the top wasn’t easy for the confident beauty, who is a size 8 to 10.
“Right before I left for the show, one of my best friends said to me, ‘You’re not going to go that far. You’re fat,’” Thompson told reporters at the event, noting that the two are no longer friends. “Every week I would remember her saying that. And every week I was like, ‘In your face!’”
More like “In your mouth!”
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What’s the prize on that show. Cheese fries?
am i the only one that things she looks way better with the extra pounds?
way to go! telling me who won before i had a chance to watch the show. haha. oh well, it such a sh*tty show anyways. and i can’t stand tyra.
Pasta, if you’re good enough, you get to marry a washed up Brady Bunch actor!
At size 4 she’s too big but at size 8 to 10 she’s just right (must have been interesting experience for her, eating to gain weight). Well that makes about as much sense as Zoolander so I believe it. Personally, I’d like to see her find this friend she’s no longer friends with, TV loves happy endings.
so sad in our society today that a size 4 is considered “big” i would love to be a size 4.. my god. i’m an 8 and i guess that’s plus size these days! but uh, good for this moron.. eating to win tyra bank’s stupid show. i cannot stand her!
I only watched the last episode because I was bored.
I’m waiting for some bitchy, catty wenches to throw a temper tantrum over a “fat girl” winning.
In all due fairness, the runner up couldn’t speak to save her life, and it’s the first time a plus-sized model won that show, but I’m sure some neurotic fashion snobs are going to pull the “THEY ONLY PICKED HER TO MAKE FAT GIRLS HAPPY” card. Whatever.
I didn’t find her all that pretty though.
Although, Tyra Banks is way more considerate of big women now that she’s too “fat” (but not really) to model herself.
Why is this a story?? And when the hell has a size 4 been plus-size???
Skinny girls/women are just BLAH.
Girls with curves RULE!!!
I’d much rather have something to sink my teeth into than be knawing on a bone.
Anything under size 7/8 is too skinny.
The stories should be about how all these skinny “celebrities” are so sickly looking and in dire need of forced pizza milkshake diets.
For the record, since there seems to be some confusion on this point: Size 4 is NOT plus size by anyone’s standards, including those of the modeling industry. Whitney used to be a size 4, hence the “formerly skinny” in the headline.
However, mainstream models are smaller than a size 4, so she was told to eat up by the show’s producers. That’s when she gained 20 pounds to become a size 10. Which in the modeling industry is considered plus-size.
who the hell gets to label this woman as ‘plus-sized’ and why do women put up with that BS (by buying ‘designer labels’ or whatever - got to be a way to change attitudes with the dollars. I think she looks completely healthy and ravishing. On that note, most of the other girls on the show do not even look like they could hold up to a good ravishing, or have anything to ravish for that matter.
saying that size 10 is “plus-sized” is simply false, and here’s a straightforward way to prove that: go to a plus-sized clothing store, such as lane bryant or torrid, and they don’t carry clothes in 10. size 14 is the smallest they sell, and that’s even really small in the plus-sized world. to say that she is bigger THAN OTHER MODELS IN THE MODELING INDUSTRY is more accurate.
But she’s not bigger than plus-sized models in the modeling industry, who are usually between a 10 and a 14, instead of between a 0 and 2 like mainstream models. I’m not generalizing for nonmodels, but those are the facts for the fashion industry.
Seriously, if she is considered plus-size, something is very wrong.
According to industry sizing standards for clothing, anything from 14-16 and up is “plus sized” (though many companies carry 14s and 16s without calling them plus sized, and teen sizes can include odd numbers like 13 and 15). Therefore, a model who is a size 8 or 10 in the vast majority of her clothes (and I say this with misgivings, since I’m a 10 in one brand of pants and had to be cut out of a 16 in another) does not accurately represent a model correctly fitted to actual plus sized clothing. It’s a filthy lie, and it only infuriates we women who want to be honestly represented by companies who claim to market products made just for us. But it’s a widely practiced deception and everyone in the industry seems to just accept it, the way Roland Mouret says he makes clothes with a size 14 woman in mind yet still puts them on size 0-4 models for runway shows and photoshoots (and says he makes clothing for “women, not girls” when many of his models are no older than 19), or when Karl Lagerfeld said, “I only make clothing for slender women” when H&M insisted on carrying his special line for them in L and XL as well as S and M sizes.
OH! I can’t stand these people!