big bad Whitney Thomson

Plus size model,
Whitney Thomson,
wins America's Next Top Model.

"Say what you want about me
- I don't care -
I'm Whitney.
I have curves
because I don't look like a little boy!
I love that about myself."
-Whitney

"I want other women in America to
feel good about themselves,"
she said.
"I want people to look at me and say,
I don't have to starve,
I don't have to have plastic surgery."
- Whitney Thomson

...she was a
size 10
marooned on an island of
size 2's...

Plus size cat in a basket.

Curvy cat sproinks his tail at the camera.

To market to market to buy
a fat cat.
Home again,
home again
just like a bat.

Whitney is a beauty.
A bombshell.
A diva.

And I never thought she'd win.

She's not model thin.
They kept calling her "juicy" and "full figured" but Paulina and Tyra rightly said that if we saw Whitney walking down the street we wouldn't think "plus size" we'd just think "hot chick".

Facially she was the most beautiful of the girls on America's Next Top Model this season.
Body-wise she's a size 10.
Gasp!

I think about being a size 10 and picture myself being done with the whole need-to-lose-weight project.
Size 10?
I'd be so ... well,
done.

In 8th grade I was a size 12 - 14 and I weighed 137 (I'm 5' 1" and 3/4)
Size 10?
I'd look like Buffy.

But this season's Top Model had a Buffy girl (Anya) in the final two and the bombshell girl (Whitney) won!

Anya, a stick figure, kept winning challenges and garnering all kinds of praise from the judges.

When the contestants were in Rome, they modeled for Gai Mattiolo, an important Italian designer.

He looked at size 10 Whitney and said,
"You're so American!"
The subtext of that was
"You're so big, fat and loud!"

Even though Whitney looked like a Hollywood starlet from the glamour girl days, she did not earn his favor. They put her in an outfit that looked like it was supposed to mask her figure rather than show it off.

When bony Anya walked for him, he said,

"Anya you are so blond!
So skinny!
So young!
So fresh!"

Blond?
Ok, anyone can be blond with the right colorist.

Skinny?
Since when is that the best option for a model?
Don't these designers want actual women to buy and wear their clothes??

So young?
Well, this IS the industry where girls in their 20s are considered "not fresh".

I wonder if Anya won that challenge simply because she fit into the size 2 dress he offered as a prize.

But even after all the hub bub about skinny Anya, Whitney the bombshell took the prize.


And at size 10 they kept calling her PLUS SIZE.

So, what does this all mean?

Maybe it means that American girls, the ones who buy Seventeen Magazine and Cover Girl cosmetics, want to buy make-up from models who look like human beings rather than stick figures.

Maybe it means that Cover Girl and Seventeen KNEW that Whitney would appeal to a huge (no pun) demographic of females in America (I'm thinking the south and mid west) who are strong enough to walk, run, play sports, carry stuff, wear clothes that have room for curves, and EAT!

And then next season they'll go right back to lauding the anorectics and vilifying the too old, too fat, and not fresh.

Ah well.

In the meantime...
I hope we see more of Whitney.
I hope we hear from her.
I hope she becomes an icon of good health and blossoming beauty.

God bless her,
she looked bangin' in that pink Versace dress.

*Lisa's Video Pick of the Day*
Here it is, the final showdown!
Just look at Whitney on that runway.
What a GODDESS!!
Stunning.
click here or click below