I don't watch America's Top Model, but reading the news I see that Whitney Thompson won the title for the reality television show.
My first reaction, was that if that's what "Plus Sized" is - i'm all for it. She's gorgeous, and i'm all for her shapley figure.
I mention to a friend of mine about this over email, and she sends me an email from her friend which says:
"The source is this wonderfully chatty boy in one of my classes...who says he went to high school with Whitney. The claim is that 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". She's about a 6 or 8 on the show. He even showed us this picture of her when she was smaller which was from a year ago.
This is her as a size 2/4:
This is her as a size 6/8":
That was all I got from the email.
Now, who knows if that email is accurate, or if it is bogus. Could be like those chain emails that get forwarded by my family & friends before they check snopes.com.
It wouldn't shock me if it was true. It also wouldn't shock me if the email from our mystery student was a hoax.
I really don't care either way. I think it's good for the kids to see that you don't have to be stick thin to be a model.
