Plus Size Whitney Thompson is America's Next Top Model

Plus Size Whitney Thompson is America’s Next Top Model

Posted on: May 15th, 2008 by: Meg3 comments

Whitney Thompson took top honors on this seasons “America’s Next Top Model” competition. The 20 year old made history because she is the first plus-size winner in the history of the show.

Thompson had this to say about her win:

People always say you have to be stick-skinny, emaciated and unhealthy and I’ve kind of stood up for [being full-figured] my whole life. I’m not going to lose 50 pounds – if someone asks me to do that, I’ll go to another [modeling] agency. I’ve already heard online from boys and girls all over the world who are dealing with eating disorders. They’re thanking me for standing up and saying, ‘I am a plus-size model and I am beautiful.’ This is what people should look like rather than skin-and-bones, which is disgusting and sends a bad message to people everywhere.”

Thompson is from Atlantic Beach, Florida and believes she has a great deal in common with the shows host Tyra Banks, who has been the recipient of much criticism over a series of unflattering bikini photos.

So now Thompson will hit the TV circuit with planned visits to Live with Regis & Kelly and The Early Show. She will also do a fashion spread in Seventeen magazine and receive a modeling contract from Elite Modeling.

Check out photos of Chloe Marshall, a size 16 teen who is running for Miss England. Chloe’s bikini photos here.

Check out a video of the finale below.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PbcqZXBnUU[/youtube]

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3 Responses to “Plus Size Whitney Thompson is America’s Next Top Model”

Tara Gillylan, on July 6th, 2008 at 8:34 pm Said:

A size 10 isn’t plus sized a size 10 is very skinny and anyone whos thinner than her needs food because my mother has curves but she is skinny and I am bigger than her. She is beautiful but she doesn’t make a good plus sized representive. A plus sized model is a size 14 and up someone like Queen Latifah Mo’ Nique Crystal Renn Jordin Sparks Nikki Blonsky Raven Symone and that plus sized girl Terri in degrassi because they are real plus sized a size 10 is small. Compared to real plus sized people. I know that I am healthy Im not obiece and im not a anorexic toothpick those people shouldn’t be called discusting because they were full figured they were healthy until they started having self esteem so low they starved themselves. Im only 14 and im a size 14. Im not fat or skinny a size 10 is marked down as skinny and a plus sized person is called vulopshuous or however you say it.
plus size, on October 8th, 2009 at 12:12 pm Said:

where can i read read more eabout this?
Kelsey, on October 16th, 2009 at 8:33 pm Said:

She isn’t plus-sized! She’s gorgeous, and she isn’t too skinny, but she certainly isn’t plus sized.