Cycle 8 brought us the first Latina winner of America's Next Top Model - Jaslene. Now, cycle 10 has named the first "full sized" winner in the history of the CWTV's pose-fest.
When they first introduced the 14 finalists for this cycle, Whitney was one of the 4 girls who I saw a lot of potential in. She, along with Anya, Lauren and Dominique, had something that the past cycles didn't have. While there were other girls who were noteworthy - the likes of Marvita, Claire and episode 1 quitter Kimberly - it felt like these girls have been there and done that.
From the moment she was chosen, Whitney was known as the "plus sized girl." Although she really isn't as "plus" as most "plus size" models are, she also wasn't a size 0 or 2 like Anya or Fatima. In one of the challenges, a designer told her outright that she doesn't have clothes that would fit her since she only makes clothes for girls who are a size 2. Now that she's the winner, maybe she could go back there and do a Julia Roberts and say: "Big mistake. Huge!"
By sheer number of times she appeared on the bottom 2, I wasn't expecting her to be the winner. But when they named her and Anya as the final 2, it was clear that she was going to take it all. Even though she didn't win, Anya will probably make waves in the modelling biz as well. She's ridiculously pretty.
The funny thing is, Whitney isn't the first "plus sized Whitney" in ANTM's history. Cycle 8 had another Whitney who was also plus sized. And if I remember correctly, cycle 8 was the batch where they had 2 plus sized models.
Latina - check. Full figured - check. Next on their check list should be letting a deserving Asian model win the competition. Who knows? That one might just be Pinay.
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