Any America's Next Top Model fans out there? Whitney Thomspon, last season's winner of ANTM, was spotted in West Village posing for a photo shoot. She looks adorable in that outfit and I love that she is a normal-sized girl and still able to make it as a model. She proves that size has nothing to do with beauty. I love it!
Photos by Bauer Griffin
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LOVE HER! Shes gorgeous!
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Love this outfit!
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Love her! Love the dress!
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She's the first woman to win this show whom I honestly, truly believe is genuinely attractive.
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She is really a beautiful, real girl!
What do you mean "normal" sized...sorry...but there is nothing normal or abnormal about her size. its who she is period. I am not as big as she is and its nromal for me to look the way I look...so please stop the fat is normal and skinny is not normal...stop the labeling for a change.
I think by normal, she means average. The average woman in America is 140lbs and a size 12.
While she may not be quite that, she might be close.
Since most models portray the small side of Americans, she's portraying the "majority" perhaps?
Yeah with all the fast food chains two inches apart......
Oh, call the waambulance.
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Yeah she's pretty and all, but she's considered a PLUS SIZE model. Wow.....
She is quite pretty but she is not normal sized. She is definitely overweight. By no means is she fat but thats not exactly healthy. However she provides a good counterbalance to the obsession with being size 0
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Love, love, love the outfit! And she is beautiful.
OMG I freakin' LOVE HER!
Can someone do a fashion find on this outfit?
This girl makes me feel beautiful <3
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I loved her. I was rooting for her to win and she did! ANTM is the bomb.
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I do find her very pretty. What I don't get is... if you say she's normal sized, how does she prove size has nothing to do with beauty? Sounds like you think she's bigger than just "normal".
In the modeling industry, abnormally thin is in. In every aspect of media, thin is in. People her size aren't supposed to exist on camera. So yes, she is proving something.
You can be overweight and healthy for crying-out-loud! Each person is different as is their body.
And you know what? You can be thin and unhealthy. Weight and how healthy you are is relative and can be mutually exclusive.
So it would be nice for once if people could look at someone who is not a size two and not immediately assume they are "unhealthy".
And she is gorgeous.
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hm, so she's considered a plus sized model. you say her weight is "normal". this implies that plus sized is normal. why would it be called plus sized then? I don't mean to offend anyone. However, I don't think this is what the average person looks like sizewise - at least where I live. The story might be different in the US though. Also, I'd like to add that those pics are pretty, her face is beautiful and the pics' atmosphere is great.
Plus size indicates bigger than the stick-thin models we usually see here in America.
Because the "normal" sizes barely go above an average woman's size, the plus size means just above average.
And believe it or not, many Americans are in that size range.
She's a size 12, maybe 14. I've seen plus sized clothing go up to size 36. Although technically, plus sized clothing starts at size 14, they often hire size 10 models and pad them up to look fuller figured, if necessary. It will be a long time before they have reallllly plus sized models.
this is no longer just an American endemic. I was just in Berlin last week, and noticed that I was just about the skinniest person there. A lot of the Germans were a little chubby in my eyes. I was in Mexico City in december, where the majority of people are overweight. I grew up in Israel, where a lot of people are also slightly overweight.
the difference is that America has embraced this change in body mass and started a new movement calling overweight women "normal".
at the same time though, it's important to keep in mind that most people are not obese by medical standards!!! there is a big difference health wise between having a BMI of 28 and a BMI of 40.
Oh no, whatever will you do, surrounded by such freaks of nature. I mean, what would happen if they sweated on you?
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I wouldn't call her overweight, I'd call her average. Her size is the average size of a European woman. She's pretty, yes, but I certainly don't see her as a supermodel. The world of supermodels requires skinny, tall and edgy looking women. I think we are so used to seeing skinny models that once we encounter a woman in the model world that isn't skin and bones we tend to say she's fat, overweight, obese or chubby. The average size of a woman is a size 16 here in Britain. I'm not saying that this is normal or abnormal, just that most women are a lot bigger than all those young girls in Lala-land Hollywood. I think you have to make peace with your body shape and figure out if you are a skinny woman or a "round" woman. You quickly figure this out when you diet and shortly afterwards you go back to how you were before. Some women are just not meant to be stick thin and that's totally ok. I think we are all too obsessed with what people weigh.
Bravo!
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I thought by normal she meant "didn't look like she starved herself to fit into the tiny sample clothes". I'm a pretty skinny gal, but I know I wouldn't look that great in some of those sample pieces unless I did some serious work.
So maybe healthy would have been a better word...
What a beautiful girl!
size 12 or size 16 is the average size? that's absurd. I'm thinking size 8 is the average size. American are not the fattest people in the country of the world you know...in fact they are in 9th place and Canada is in 35th place. Yes I do see a lot of fatties in America, but I also see a lot of skinny people there too.
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http://knifelicker.com/2008/05/20/skinny-whitney-thompson-pictures-americas-next-top-model/
Old school Whitney
she actually was a model before ANTM, and was a SKINNY model, there are pictures if you do the research. the website that showed the pictures (i think it was oh no they didn't) said she was asked to gain weight and gauranteed a winning spot if she did. ty ty needed to prove a point
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I was going to post that exactly. It seems to me like she couldn't cut it as a size 4 model or whatever she was when she started so she gained weight to get ahead. Odd way to seek an advantage but I believe this story. and yeah I think it was ONTD.
Anya and I can't remember the name of the other girl but they are prettier and both deserved to win over Whitney.
Um...the last time the average American woman was 140lbs must have been in the 80s. Now the average American woman is about 160 and a size 14. Americans are grossly fat and sloppy, its embarrassing. This girl is overweight lets just call it what it is, its not 'normal' to be a size 14, its lazy and nasty. If women watched what they ate and got up off their asses every now and then this shit would not be 'normal'. I am HIGHLY offended that America is trying to make this 'new fat girl fad' its repulsive and offensive. Many of us woman pride in our heath and appearances, many of us will go to the gym and drop the twinkies. I am not even trying to be mean but if this country ever wants health care or anything of that nature then we better change our ways. The average woman should be no bigger then a size 8, honestly. If you are 5'4 and weigh more then 140 you are fat, not thick, not curvy just fat. And regardless this girl was VERY thin before she won this show, nothing like telling a girl to let herself go so that a nation full of fat woman will feel better about them selfs. STOP BEING LAZY LADIES.
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That's a pretty crappy comment, to say the least. There are women who simply cannot help how much they weigh, or where the weight is deposited on their bodies. There are women who do things to wreck their digestive systems in order to remain as thin as our society would like them to be, and this is a horrible epidemic, also. Working out excessively is often as damaging as dieting excessively. I think that most eating disorders are caused by women calling other women fat; my friends who suffer/have suffered from such afflictions ALSO had mothers and sisters who were obsessively -- and usually unnecessarily -- critical of their appearances. I ALSO think that most men would STRONGLY prefer this woman over that hideously scrawny woman who won this contest a couple of years ago. What's her name? Jasmine? That girl is just WAY TOO FREAKING THIN. Whitney looks healthy. Her hair is shiny and full, her skin is glowing, and she's sturdy and lanky enough to ride a bike with no awkwardness. I suppose you're welcome to your opinion, but there are a lot of teenage girls who read this site, and I would just like them to know that not every young woman feels the same way you do about society's "norms."
Women Whitney's size have been celebrated for thousands of years. It's only now that we have so much food that we don't know what to do with that we obsess over being fat. A woman Whitney's size has a much higher chance of carrying a baby to full term than the typical model. Get a clue.
And change your name. You don't deserve mine.
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I've always loved how Tyra stands at her panel and judges people based on their weight. She would tell someone who is my size....5'6 and 138lbs that I could only be a plus sized model. The thing is...look at her. She's put on a lot of weight through the years and if she were to go back into modeling, wouldn't she herself have to be a plus size model?
i think she's overweight.
the girl in the yellow dress would be a better model.
Hmmm, if not killing myself to fit into impossible standards set up by a superficial industry with absolutely no interest in what my body is capable of being and remain healthy is lazy, sign me up, melissa22. By the way, I'm 5'10", wigh 160 lbs and wear a size 8. Which pigeonhole do I fit into?
The point is that this girl winning is not forcing the women who see her to think they have to look like a human-sized praying mantis in a dress to be considered beautiful. Judgemental *sshole.
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I'd pigeonhole you as "confident." And good for you -- you sound as if you're EXACTLY where you need to be. P.S. -- I love the praying mantis comparison! :-)
I don't think she's that attractive. She looks too average to be a model - I mean her weight isn't exactly appealing to me... infact I think she looks slightly chubby and her face is very average. Nothing striking about her.
Boring.
She is stunning!
this girl does nothing for me as do skin and bone models. we only get to see the extremes. It is a shame that this is normal for american society. If i ever got this heavy i know i would not feel good about myself just like i wouldnt feel good if i weighed 100 pounds. IF this is what other girls need to feel good about themselves that great enjoy it but i find that a toned body with some curves in the right places to be much healthier looking than this.
I don't think she should have won. I don't think it's fair that someone who doesn't work out, doesn't watch what they eat, and doesn't care that they're overweight should be a rolemodel for anyone. That would be like giving the olympic gold medal to someone who isn't athletic, or giving the swimming champion medal to someone who doesn't swim... and then explaining your action by saying "We'll alot of American's don't swim, and they feel bad about themselves because they can't swim... so we're going to give them the swimmers trophy anyway." I mean duh! If they'd get there little lazy butts out there, and actually learn how to swim... or in the Model case... lose a few pounds and tone up... then yes, maybe they would deserve it. However, until they actually do something to deserve their prize, they shouldn't get it. I'm not saying she isn't beautiful as a person, but in No way should she have beaten out the models who actually worked hard to stay slim and fit. Come on now America, have we really lowered our standards that much? We can't just give our trophys to anyone and everyone just because they don't feel good about themselves. You have to earn them.
You're posting under the assumption that the skinny models are physically fit and healthy.
Overweight is not a relative term. Overweight is a medical term. I was going to say something when I read this post this morning, but didn't have a chance. While an overweight model may help some people feel good about themselves, it still perpetuates the myth that being overweight can be healthy. Elevated health risks, not to mention a lack of energy, go along with being overweight. I'm not saying stick skinny models paint a picture of health- they don't either! The model is "average size" and the "average size" in America is overweight.
Passerby @ 1:34pm, Not everyone wants to be a stick and obsesses at keeping to a certain weight. Just because someone has some extra padding to themselves (myself included) doens't mean we "let ourselves go" and that she won because American's needed someone to get the winner's trophy.
It's disgusting that people tend to feel that someone who actually looks healthy and as if they've eaten this millenium is deemed fat and repulsive. There's a difference to having meat on your bones and actually being "fat".
I would rather see someone with natural posie, grace and beauty win that another plastic silicone infused "Barbie".
Oh and for the record: I'm 5'0 and weight 115. So yes, I do have a little padding, but I like it that way =D
She's not normal or average or FAT! She's thick! With tree trunk legs.
pretty face thick waist!
the first one is cute. but is it a model? NO. the model who should have represented ANTM's plus size winner was Tocarra. Anya should have won this season, whitney was in the bottom 3 three times, anya, none! Tyra needs to get her head out of her butt and do some real judging. and quit with all that airbrushing in your new pics Tyra, there's so much i can even tell. Represent your curves in your photos too! be a true believer in a plus-size model, not just when its convenient to you.
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