Is the fashion world really going to change to suit the full figured Whitney, winner of America’s Next Top Model?
We can only hope. I was thinking, as I watched curvy Whitney stomp it out against slender Anya in the runway showdown featuring Donatella Versache, that designers should be required to include at least one plus size model in all fashion shows. Regulations were added to fashion week that required models be within a certain BMI to ensure they were “healthy”, so why not take it a step further?
Can this be a sign of the times? Whitney said from the beginning of cycle 10 that she wanted to break barriers and now it looks like she might get the chance.
Go on and get yours Whitney!
May 15th, 2008 at 11:32 am
I think she needs to get her boobs out. That would go a long way to breaking the barrier her bra and any clothes worn below the neck are creating – preventing so many men from seeing her how nature truely intended.
Skinny naked women look as wrong a obese naked women. Whitney would be perfect!
May 15th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Wait, Wait…. PLUS size!? That woman is smaller than me and I’m a size 6. Is that seriously considered PLUS!?!?!
May 15th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
anything over a size 2 is plus size…. can you believe it?!
May 15th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
oh, and I think they airbrushed the crap out of those pictures, she looks chunkier in the actual show
May 16th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
what a fat a**
May 16th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
This season was really good I was shocked that she won. My vote was for her the whole time. Way to go Whitney. If I had the resources to get airbrushed I would, there’s no harm in that, she is still beautiful.
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:11 am
Gdamn there’s nothing plus about that. What a shamm she’s not fat or anything ! She’s not even a normal girl you can see on the street everyday, so this is gonna change jack.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
wtf! She is tinny!
May 28th, 2008 at 4:08 am
I’m sorry, but how the hell is this woman considered plus-sized? She can’t buy anything from Torrid or Lane Bryant. I thought plus-size was 14 and up. I’m a 14 and Whitney is a lot smaller than I am. Taller as well. She’s tiny.
Damn. Plus-size my arse. She’s a normal, slender woman.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
It’s ridiculous how they consider her a “plus size.” All women are built differently. Im 5 feet tall and 120 lbs with an athletic build so technically I’d be plus sized, and almost everyone I come in contact with is bigger than I am! It’s a shame, women all over have body issues cause of the way our media projects beauty. =[. All girls should know that theyre beautiful the way they are.
June 12th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Am I the only one who notices that her face looks like ugly trailor trash? What happened to choosing models bases on….i dont know…there looks! Ohh and no fat models please, or sickly looking ones either. Ohh and Tyra Banks is a ugly negro.
June 16th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
I am appaled that whitney’s size is plus size. the average north american woman is a size 12! and whitney is only a size 8! she is normal! models are super skinny skin and bones size 2 which isn’t normal! i’m a size 3 and i am a 14 year old girl who is small for her age. Whitney is beautiful adn curvy. NOT PLUS SIZE! i just wish the fashoin industry would change to model people who are size 6 or up. NORMAL SIZE PEOPLE. i just think this world view of perfect is messed up. I even asked my guy friends and each one said that skinny models are creepy and they thought whitney was hot. SHE IS NORMAL. and she is my role model!
June 17th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
She is actually a size 10. And actually plus size modeling is size 10 and up. Regular modeling goes up to a size 6.
June 21st, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I DONT care that a fat chick won something, good for her, I dont need to see it again after I laugh at her. kthx.
June 26th, 2008 at 6:05 am
wow, what a fat piece of sh!t. she’s the solution to world hunger. f***ing whale.
July 4th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Agreed. I have wide hips and a butt so I wear a 10-12. But my waist is tiny and I have line backer shoulders! Great whatever that this girl won for being “plus size” in the modeling industry. I agree with “blah”. Whitney is not a very attractive woman. She isn’t even attractive in that ugly weird model way. She looks like your everyday white girl! lol She was much more attractive as a brunette. Really I do not know why all of us get caught up in this bologna. I’m happy, made the way I am and I would never want to put myself out there as a model anyhow. What happened to modesty and women being beautiful because of there godliness. Ask a REAL man what he wants in a woman, it isn’t this, or vanity, it’s a woman who loves herself modestly, and glows from the inside out. Beauty is fleeting.
July 4th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Whitney is still smaller than the majority of American women… but she is larger than the average model! Her curves being appreciated may signal a long awaited return to an ideal of beauty being similar to what the Greeks and Romans of ancient times found attractive. After all, women with curves in ancient times were immortalized in statues, women in medieval and renaissance times were painted and sculpted as well, clearly there is something about a woman with curves that presents an ageless beauty. Whitney’s win may seem insignificant to some, but it is a step in the right direction. Best of luck to her in her modeling career.
July 8th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
She looks gorgeous… I am fed up of starved looking, skinny girls.. Girls with curves thats wat we like..
July 10th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Why is this constantly on the top of shoutwires news feed? I’m guessing the administrator is a fatty
July 24th, 2008 at 4:09 am
fuk iu
July 29th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Plus-size, my fat ass!! What size is she, 7? I bet she got called names in high school.
This girl isn’t going to change the modeling industry. First (and most importantly of all), she’s the product of a reality show. That alone is going to stop Karl Lagerfeld and Anna Wintour from putting her on the New York Fashion Week runway or on a center spread in Vogue. The fact is reality TV “stars” are a world apart from where fashion is right now. High fashion is an elitist establishment; there is no room for America’s Next Top Models on it (if you don’t believe me, then were are Yoanna House or Naima Mora?)
I’d rather direct my attention to one of Vogue’s Shape Issue (I can’t remember if it was 2007 or 2008). In it, three “plus-sized” models were featured and given a spread. Sadly, once the Shape Issue came and was gone, so were the models. Despite Tyra’s best efforts (and Vogue’s two-faced ones), there are long ways to go. I believe the power is in the runways. Once designers start featuring curvier models on their shows, the magazines will follow, and so will everyone else. Until that day, Whitney shouldn’t hold her breath…
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:15 pm
most of yoll are rite she is skinny i’m a size 14 and relly wanna get into moddelling but keep doubting cause if a 10 is plus size then i got nothing to say anywho big ups
August 5th, 2008 at 4:53 am
that’s considered fucking plus size? =S shes like a size 8 at the most because she actually has an ass. if you think that is overweight i don’t think you’ve ever seen a girl in real life, nvm crappy modeling shows. good luck getting a girlfriend with this attitude XD
August 11th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
I really want to model, i am 15, 5′8 and still growing, but i was cursed with big bones, which is not model material. :((( So i would be considered plus size, even though i don’t look fat i have a lot of muscle from swimming. GAH, this SUCKS!!!
August 14th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Uber-thin women make fantastic models because they are striking in photos: gaunt faces, twiggy legs, and slender waists make good pictures and make fashion edgier. But, without a doubt, women with curves are sexier.
This “top model” has a fabulous shape, and it is wonderful that her win has opened up a dialogue on the standards of beauty. But, in all likelihood, our Vogues and Harper’s Bazars will always be filled with images of women whose bodies are unattainably thin.
Do most men prefer lollipop-shaped women? I think not. But there are strategic reasons for the design industry to rely on impossibly thin models.
Models represent an industry based on fantasy. More than simply the products they sell, designers and cosmetic companies are selling an image of womanhood that has to be unattainable. Their models must represent an ideal of beauty that can’t be achieved by a normal woman who buys one dress or a tube of lipstick. Even after she’s bought the dress, lipstick, shoes, handbag, perfume… she must feel inferior to the women in ads and on the runways. Otherwise, she will just stop buying stuff!
So, yes, it’s wonderful that a woman with curves won “top model.” But no, it’s not going to change fashion marketing practices.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
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August 29th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
omigosh, this woman is fat fat fat!
September 7th, 2008 at 8:35 am
A size 10 model may win. But in reality, she will have difficulty getting hired by any top fashion designer. Including plus-sized women in the competition is purely a commercial desicion. Many viewers have admitted the inclusion of more “regular sized women” make them keep watching the show. More viewers = more advertisement income. So why not? But in the sad reality, if a size 10 woman walks to Elite model agency to find a job (off the reality show camera), she will be turned away immediately. Elite also organizes model selections all over the world. If you are bigger than size 4, you will never, ever have a chance entering these selections.
To be honest, I also think Whitney capitalized on this “plus size” thing. At size 10, she is not going to be considered a plus size among regular folks. The average size of an American woman is between size 12 and size 16. She kept talking about how she was picked on and was considered a weird thing when growing up. This could not be true. Among regular folks, not only she would not have been considered fat, she would have been considered very attractive. How on the earth could she be picked on? I think she only said that to get sympathy and attention from the judges and the viewers. In reality show, viewers often have more says than judges because they determine the ratings.
September 24th, 2008 at 2:33 am
Nobody cares anymore.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:43 am
I dunno, I like them skinny. I’m a big guy and I want to be able to toss something around ha.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Why is this article on shoutwire top every time I go there. It’s really starting to piss me off
October 20th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I think the trend is moving towards curvy women. Does anyone watch Mad Men? Have you seen the head office assistant. She’s curvy and beautiful.
October 26th, 2008 at 3:27 am
shes freaking hot man
November 27th, 2008 at 7:53 am
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December 12th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
i wanted anya to win….
January 11th, 2009 at 11:13 am
yes skinny models look amazing and everyone goes apeshit to buy products to try and replicate the look but to you girlies who call Whitney a fat whale – its people like you who will end up in hospital on a drip dying trying to imitate models. Yes it’s great being a size 0-2 and wearing gorgeous clothes from abercrombie and fitch but making other people feel bad just because they are bigger is dumb because everyone is built differently and when it all comes down to it the girl posing in the photo looks more like regular people as opposed to the insane levels of beauty a classic model would have.
January 28th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
…I think it’s great that they went in a new direction, but does anyone thing it’s ridiculous that there are skinny models and plus sized models but not regular models? What about the girls who are 5′6 and 120 pounds? That’s not plus sized is it? If it is then we have a problem with our world. As someone who is not heavy but not emaciated…I would rather see someone with an average build in an ad because then I know it will look good on most types of women…not just big women and not just thin women…
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:08 am
for all of ya’ll tht make fun of her.
u guys are so FER-EAKIN sad. i mean ur probably bitter cuz she may be bigger than u but a hella lot prettier and sexier and more of a person than you. truth betold u guys are just so sad u would never be able to be a great model even if ur hella skinny and she can be one even tho shes not a size two.
April 8th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
she doesn’t even loom like a model, she likes being “plus”. on the interviews she would mention being plus sized every chance she got. she just never stopped talking about being plus sized. no offense, but, she looks like a whore. she walks like a pole dancer.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
i love he new americas top model shes the new real spoke’s woman of the world ,it makes me fell great to now that she well help young woman fell the dont have to kill themselves to look skiney,good luck whitney your a new age goddess dont lose weight other wise you well look like every other model eg death on legs as i call them cotten buds lol xx
April 29th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
to all ou there who puts the new americas top model should be very ashamed of themselves there geolous that there’s a woman who fells happy with her own size,maybe the people should look in the mirror and say am i a judgementel person that i have to put sombody down even if dont now them .
April 29th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
go girl help the women of this world fell u dont have to be thin to be pretty
April 29th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
thank god anya didnt win with that big nose you have to be kidding whitney was the prettest there
May 5th, 2009 at 8:45 am
A plus size model is size 8, plus sizes in stores are 1x-3x.
I’m consider a plus sized model (I’m size 8 and have always struggled with my weight) and it’s incredibly hard to find work. I was at on point size 13 and 150lbs…I’m only 5 foot 2. According to my agent I can only do print ads or body part modelling.
I’d also like to note that Top Model doesn’t reflect what normal women look like. They are models and usually unusually tall and slender, due either to great genetics and smaller bone structure. I’ve met a few models that are literally like the receptionist on The Devil Wears Prada ‘living on a cube of cheese’ to get tiny. It’s actually kind of disturbing at times
That said I just heard that Top Model is going to have a season of shorter models on the show. I think it’s for under 5 foot 7 models.
The average woman is 5 foot 4 FYI. So I’m thinking that it may be a little better than the original Top Model but it still gives girls poor body image.
I do watch the show as I find it entertaining but not as a real representation as to what a real woman should look like. We are each beautiful in our own way.
*not my real name FYI
May 5th, 2009 at 8:50 am
All models are also airbrushed to death and they take lbs off you digitally. The above photo has been airbrushed to death. Did anyone see Kim Kardashians before and after photo…if not look it up.
September 19th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
She’s size 10.. she just looks smaller in the picture. 10 isn’t even that large, but in the model world the standard size is 2.