Full figured Whitney Thompson is the winner of America's Next Top Model (cycle 10). There have been other full figured models in previous cycles of the show, but none have made it to the top three....Whitney is the first plus-sized model to win ANTM!


As part of her winnings Whitney gets a deal with Elite Model Management, a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl and a six-page fashion spread in Seventeen magazine.



"There's definitely times I've looked in the mirror or at other girls and though that I wasn't like them – always being judged and thinking, Am I different? Is there something wrong with me?" Thompson said after being crowned the winner. "No. I do feel good about myself and I want other women in America to feel good about themselves. I honestly think that girls will look up to me and say, 'I can do that. I can be that. I don't have to starve. I don't have to have plastic surgery. I can really be like that. I can be on the billboard. I can be on that magazine cover. Why? Because I'm beautiful – on the inside out.’ I have breasts, I have hips, I have a butt – and I am so proud of those things. I am here and I am me. I'm not going to change myself."



Hope she doesn't suffer the same indignity as Jen Hunter, winner of the Make Me A Supermodel UK television series in 2007, who had to sign on with a plus-sized modeling agency after Select Models who were supposed to sign on the winner of the show refused to take on plus-sized Jen! (see plus size in fashion)