ANTM winner Whitney Thompson in Seventeen

I’m ticked pink that a full-figured gal has won America’s Next Top Model. It took 10 seasons (or “cycles” as they call them on the show), but the curvy Whitney Thompson was recently chosen as the winner. Yeah, she’s a little skinny to be called plus size, but I honestly thought they’d never pick a larger size girl to win.

Whitney’s confidence was refreshing after so many seasons of insecure plus size models who got kicked out a few episodes in because they were just defeated.

Here’s what Whitney said in an interview with the LA Times

You saw when Stacy Ann was like “Whatever, you’re fat.” And I was like “Uh, perhaps you meant P-H-A-T,” which is totally my personality. There were a few times. I think the girls were a little jealous that they had to diet and they had to do this work to be super skinny, and I was like “Well, I don’t, and my pictures still came out better than yours.” I think it was difficult for them because the plus-sized models usually lose their confidence within the first week or two. I think they were like “What? Well you’re big!”

Whitney appears in the July 2008 issue of Seventeen magazine.

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