Also, I would like to point out that I predicted this outcome two months ago.
But like any cycle of the show, Season 10 is not without its controversy. Apparently, the girls were harder on that TriBeCa loft than a pack of feral monkeys, flinging food around and ruining floors, and how the production crew ruined the ceilings and also, didn't pay the electricity bill. And just hours ago, we found out that Whitney herself is awash in controversy as well.
Leave it to my GBF Rich to have the major scoop:
"I'd call this a symbolic victory, but this is ANTM: if it's not symbolic, it's as good as symbolic. However, earlier this week, I received an email from a source that would like to remain nameless (and, clearly, close to my heart) that suggests this victory is super-symbolic The mystery woman writes:
He's got some pretty damaging evidence supporting this claim: pictures of a much slimmer Whitney rocking a bikini. No wonder she kept talking about being a plus-size model! She was trying to convince herself that it was true. And honestly, rumors start because they make sense. And doesn't it, given the potential drama and body issues we've seen this season? And Miss J's uncharacteristically sympathetic remark about Whitney's fakeness as a protective facade echoed almost exactly what Whitney tells the camera in her post-win confessional, which seemed a little contrived. Now, the Whitney in those photos is by no means Fatima-esque, and I doubt she could squeeze into the designer sample size 2s, but the whole controversy raises some questions. We don't know the back story on those photos--for instance, maybe Whitney had been yo-yo dieting and these photos were taken at a low weight? But if what Rich's insider friend says is true, then it's not really a small victory for size acceptance. It's just yet another girl was told that she had to change her body to fit an ideal. If she put on the weight for the competition (and therefore was needing to eat a lot of food to keep her automatic set-point from reverting back to her body's natural weight), then this isn't exactly a victory for the fat girls everywhere. It's just yet another situation where a very pretty girl was told that she wasn't quite good enough.'I debated on whether to share this given my source and you may have heard this already...The source is this wonderfully chatty boy in one of my classes...who says he went to high school with Whitney. The claim is that Whitney did not try out for top model but was approached on a plane by someone from the show. She was already doing modeling as a size 2 or 4 but because she was closer to a 4 she was a little too big for the show as a regular model. They told her that if she went and gained 10-20 pounds they would definitely put her on the show as "the plus-size model". She's about a 6 or 8 on the show. He even showed us this picture of her when she was smaller which was from a year ago.
He also said that she was going to make the top 3. That's why I held out from saying anything for 3 weeks. I wasn't sure if anything was credible. But since the "top 3" thing came through...'"
What do you think? Is it okay for a model to gain weight to be considered full-figured? Is it as bad as being told to lose weight in order to model Versace? Was Donnatella not shown on camera because she couldn't stand the idea of a size 10 girl modeling her designs? The comments are stomping like they ain't ever stomped before.
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