...this woman on the cover of Seventeen. I remember getting this in the mail a couple years ago and it just making my day. This woman is Whitney Thompson, winner of America's Next Top Model in 2008. She was the first plus size woman to win the title of America's Next Top Model. As part of her prize, she got a spread in Seventeen magazine. The article itself was a little less than impressive, because while she was given a golden opportunity to talk about the beauty of women of all sizes, she decided to talk trash about skinny girls. But, all that aside, she's probably one of few plus size women to ever appear on the cover of this magazine, if not the only one.
I think it's kind of wrong that she won the competion and was promised a magazine cover, but they made this issue one with two covers, and still put a more "normal" celebrity on the other side. =/ She did look really good in the spread though. Here's the only other one I can find online:
But I did find some more pictures of her taken after she won, after her career took off:
She really is gorgeous. You don't hear much about her anymore. I hope she's getting work. She really does care about putting a better image of what women look like out there.
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