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Whitney Thompson has the distinction of being the first plus-sized winner of America’s Top Model. This season proved that bigger is actually better. Through out this show’s history, only about five plus-sized girls were picked as finalists in the show’s ten seasons. None of these girls ever made it past Top Five.

At the beginning of the season, Whitney often received criticisms from judges who have told her her style and techniques were a little too “pageantee”. She was almost close to being eliminated having landed in the bottom two on more than one instance. But she has proven herself to be an adaptable fast learner, who has risen to the challenge, listened to what the judges had to say and used this to improve herself.

Born in Florida, Whitney was already working as a model at the age of fourteen years old but was no less exempted from ridicules and bullying as a youngster because of her figure.

After Top Model and as part of her prize, Whitney will be the current Cover Girl for CoverGirl Cosmetics. She will also be working under the Elite Model Management and will soon grace the July issue of Seventeen Magazine. Coinciding with this, she will also have her very own billboard on Times Square, soon.

An excerpt of her interview with BuddyTV:

You expressed several times throughout the season that there are designers who just don’t make clothes for girls your size. You’re very average, like me and a lot of other people. How do you plan to combat that in life after Top Model?

Hopefully I will get a lot of publicity just from being on Top Model, because honestly if I walked into an agency people would be like, “Who are you? No, you’re average. That’s not that exciting.” Of course, even Elite doesn’t have a plus size division in New York, so it’s a struggle already combating that. However, there are a lot of plus size people, and people that do support it, and designers that are beginning to support it, so hopefully that’ll come up and that’ll be bigger and bigger. I know even Dolce & Gabbana, you have Jean Paul Gaultier, you have big, high fashion designers that are starting to do the plus size thing. It’s just a first step, and you never know, I might be the first girl that they use. But there’s no way that I would ever say, “Oh, try to squeeze me into a size 2,” or anything like that I’m not going to change myself. Either the designer changes, or I just don’t work with them. That’s just the bottom line.

It has just began for Whitney…

Whitney Thompson, America’s Top Model, First Plus-Sized model Winner