Kasia Pilewicz was a contestant during Cycle 16 of ANTM.
Originally from Poland, this 26-year-old full-figured model traveled from New York, New York to appear on America’s Next Top Model, Cycle 16. At the time of the show, Kasia was 26 years old, making her the oldest contestant in this cycle.
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February 27, 2011 at 9:15 pm
Kasia is very pretty, but definitely not made for high fashion, sorry.
High fashion requires a certain height and figure, is not intended to be shown for full figure models.
March 2, 2011 at 7:56 am
Hollllaaa!!! Yeah, full-figure models are great, but even Toccara had to lose some pounds and wait a few years before appearing on a spread on Vogue Italy.
March 1, 2011 at 3:31 pm
There’s something about her that I don’t like. I don’t know what that is, but for sure, she is good.
March 1, 2011 at 10:04 pm
What I’m surprised about is how she was able to make it to the cycle even if she has a lot of modeling experience and has been part of magazines and campaigns less than 10 years before the show. We already had one Saleisha Scandal, don’t start another one Tyra.
March 2, 2011 at 7:58 am
Ehhhhhhh, if she’s already a model and appeared on a fashion magazine, why is she on the show? And she reminds of a shorter version of Whitney from cycle 10.
March 7, 2011 at 2:20 am
i must say i’m not in love with her proportions. Even plus-size models have to have a nice body shape, she just looks fat, not curvy as she should. She should really do some pilates to shape up those legs, abs and arms!
May 19, 2011 at 9:04 pm
I bet you are fatter.
August 15, 2011 at 5:40 am
She’s POLISH!! Ur just looking at her round face.. Their faces are very round! She is NOT Fat!! Her portportions are great!
March 7, 2011 at 2:58 pm
She reminds me of Emily Osment.
March 9, 2011 at 8:46 am
I loathe her mouth/chin/underbite.
December 10, 2011 at 9:43 pm
its a jaw deformity and looks horrible – amd her legs are so chunky – NOTmodel material
March 14, 2011 at 3:47 am
I personally think that she’s beautfifull, but forgetful.
May 19, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Do you mean forgettable?
March 21, 2011 at 12:33 am
Omg, yes I agree. If she is already a model, why is she on the show? Ugh, another spot wasted that could’ve been someone else. I agree she act like Whitney; so miss pageant act. She doesn’t need to be on the show either. I thought that this show was to give opportunity to girls who want to be a model, not ones who already model. And to become what, a model! Kinda dumb.
November 4, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Yeah, but the same logic could be used for Alexandria, as she had done some runway and campaign modelling work not long before she appeared on top model. Yet I don’t see anyone else saying she was a waste of space. And just because she’s another plus-size model with blonde hair doesn’t mean she’s another Whitney. To be honest, I thought that Anya deserved to win that cycle as Whitney wasn’t that strong, however I think Kasia is way better than Whitney.
Am actually quite surprised at how some people on this post have commented so rashly about Kasia not belonging in high fashion. It was only a few decades ago that full-figured women were considered high fashion, yet as soon as they started bringing in slim models, people assume that size zero is a constant in the fashion industry. Curviness has started coming back into the modelling industry; it’ll hopefully make way for more variety in model’s shapes.
And before anyone says I’m being naive or narrow minded by appearing to prefer full-figured women to skinnier women, I wouldn’t mind if both types could appear on the runway together without it being commented on as something so different and unusual.
March 24, 2011 at 10:47 am
She looks very pretty but when her jawline disappears she looks like the smelly girl in your kindergarten class that eats her own boogers (mature way to put it, I know, ha!) and she doesn’t seem to have much of a personality. They seem to edit her the same way that they edited Whitney– just her talking about her being different because she’s a full-figured model. We’re not really getting the chance to get to know her!
March 25, 2011 at 6:35 am
She seems to be a really cool girl, I like her personality. I’m not a big fan of her legs though but I always wonder how do they find these fat girls that have not even a lil bit of cellulite?
May 16, 2011 at 3:39 am
She is most certainly NOT fat! You do realize she’s like…a size 14 or 16? If I saw her on the street I would think she was completely an ordinary size. It’s only in comparison to girls who are nothing but skin and bones that she looks heavier. I think Kasia is a full-figured beauty.
March 25, 2011 at 8:48 pm
She is to-tal-ly fierce!!!
March 30, 2011 at 7:35 pm
She does look like Emily Osment, but she’s not ready yet for high fashion.
April 1, 2011 at 9:54 am
I’m getting bored with her, most of her photos seems look flat and just okay. Well I think she can be eliminated very quick.
April 2, 2011 at 4:20 am
She is absolutely gorgeous to me!! Y’all just haters!!!! Good job, Kasia.
April 4, 2011 at 7:50 pm
The “the plus size” of the group but always maintain the most stunning pics. Love KASIA!!
April 7, 2011 at 9:45 am
I personally don’t think Kasia is a scandal situation like Saleisha might have been, but yeah Kasia is one of the more experienced girls to make it on the show. Mikaela also had a lot of experience, but she just got eliminated. Kasia is a fierce plus-size model. Not as stunning as Whitney, but I feel like Kasia works better in photos and we could have a second plus-size winner. However I also feel like she’s going to fall short and place 3rd or 2nd, despite what I predict, she going to have an amazing career anyway. I want to see her with shorter hair though and dyed. The blonde thing is her, but it bores me sometimes.
April 9, 2011 at 6:34 am
26 years old? Isn’t that way too old to become a model?
May 16, 2011 at 3:37 am
Modeling should break boundaries
I don’t think it matters her age.
May 19, 2011 at 4:17 am
Krista was 26, too, but she won.
April 20, 2011 at 7:34 pm
i believe she is better than whitney and alexandra from cycle 14
April 25, 2011 at 7:22 pm
for me, she’s the next keenyah (cycle 4) mostly from now her photo is not fierce more like awful but she never been in bottom 2 also…
April 28, 2011 at 12:26 am
i think that she looks like whitney,the winner of cycle 8, isn’t she?! i’m sorry if there are some mistakes of language, but i’m not english
May 1, 2011 at 8:10 am
She looks like a fuller figured Kate Hudson.
May 4, 2011 at 5:41 pm
i just love her..<3 <3
May 6, 2011 at 10:41 pm
Her pictures aren’t that good, she looks cross-eyed in a lot of them. Didn’t like her at all
May 8, 2011 at 9:03 am
she looks like hayden panettiere
i like her!
May 16, 2011 at 3:37 am
Kasia, you are inspiring and wondeful! Your personality outshone the rest of the girls. I hope you continuing modeling and become an icon for young girls and ALL body shapes everywhere! Truly inspiring. Thank!
May 16, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Kasia is my fave she looks very European like all of the girls from past cycles. Natasha, Anya, Mollie Sue and Katarzyna… very high fashioned couture…
May 16, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Kasia is my fave she looks very European like all of the girls from past cycles. Natasha, Anya, Mollie Sue and Katarzyna… very high fashioned editorial…
May 21, 2011 at 4:10 am
hatrrrrrs can you even make photos like that … good job Kasia !!!
May 22, 2011 at 8:04 pm
her expression is marvelous, but she somehoww forgetful :/
May 23, 2011 at 1:55 am
She can be high fashion. Rules are there to be broken. Who says plus size models can’t be high fashion?
May 30, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Her face doesn’t show a 26-year-old girl and I believe that she’s a very pretty girl, but she doesn’t know her angles cause in some photos she looks fat and in others she looks slim, but she’s pretty!
June 1, 2011 at 4:02 am
She reminds me of my aunt that I hated.
June 14, 2011 at 3:21 am
Something is very soft about her face and figure. I like it a lot and she looks eastern european which is very positive in the fashion world. She also looks a lot younger than she actually is.
June 15, 2011 at 6:59 am
I was in my doctor’s office, bored to tears waiting, and picked up the Nov. 2009 Seventeen magazine (with Kristen Stewart on the cover). Who should be in the “dressing for your body type” spread but Kasia. And she was “22″ then. So. Seventeen must have a heck of a lot to say in who stays and goes in some of these cycles (not this one, I know, but she was already in there sooooo). Interesting, I say.
June 25, 2011 at 5:27 pm
She’s way too old and a little fat to be a model.
January 6, 2012 at 6:05 am
don´t be ignorant! she´s really beautiful, and she doesn´t look her age! besides, she was a plus size so it doesn´t make her fat! there were more fat plus size girls on the show!
August 4, 2011 at 6:19 am
Kasia Is Gorgeous !
August 27, 2011 at 3:56 pm
She is so sweet! Wish her all the best and hope that the cruel high fashion world dont cut her!
August 29, 2011 at 4:24 am
She’s fiercely real inside and out. Most definitely out. But I like her.
September 7, 2011 at 7:45 am
Kasia was originally signed with Wilhelmina, Inc. in NYC before appearing on the show. She is now signed with an agency in Chicago. Kasia has flawless features and a beautiful, porcelain body. I wish people would see that thinness is not always considered attractive by many fans of art. If you look at the Italian Renaissance paintings of women there is an emphasis on the beauty of the full-figured body and these are considered to be among the greatest artworks of European history. Even Aphrodite has been portrayed as full-figured in paintings. “The Birth of Venus” by Monsieur Bougereau shows her as full-figured/voluptous. Kasia has facial features Europea photographers want in a mode. It’s different for today’s era because it’s classical. Her face reminds me of the first pioneer and legend of the model’s profession, Mme Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn. That chin could be Kasia’s trademark! It’s not to say that skinny models with a 24-inch or less waistline are unattractive. Janice Dickinson, Beverly Johnson and Suzy Parker are some of my favorite legendary supermodels and they were always with a 24-inch waistline, no less or more. Nowadays, having a 24-inch waistline isn’t enough, couturiers want thin models. Let’s be realistic, in Europe a model can only be thinner than 24 inches if she comes from a village where no family has enough food to eat. If you go to the city the girls have flesh with some being voluptuous, some being full-figured and some being skinny skinny. They’re all healthy
. The fashion industry has changed significantly since the 1990′s which is where the model’s look turned a downright nasty turn. Let’s look at Karl Lagerfeld, for example, he uses plus-size model(s) in his fashion shows now, though 20 years ago he would have laughed at any plus-size model walking into his atelier(sp?) followed by kicking her out. In Spain the fashion council passed a policy years ago that no model with a skinny skinny body can do runway work….. I want to see Kasia on the cover of Vogue Paris.
September 22, 2011 at 7:15 am
Plus size AND old? Come on..
October 10, 2011 at 6:16 pm
She is not maybe high fashion but did you noticed compare to others in this cycle, how many photos does SHE have? Normal models will be always better and had more job. Why? Because more selling magazines like Joy and Bravo and others just life “models for plus sizes” because most of the women aint skinny.
November 8, 2011 at 12:34 pm
I think she should have been on top two. She is one of the prettiest girls in ANTM history and i think she belongs to vogue.And i dont think she’s not even “fat”. She’s skinny! She just happends to have a nice ass.
November 8, 2011 at 9:22 pm
I like her..for some reason like the way her “head position” (bit up)… great personality and confidence
December 17, 2011 at 2:59 am
Stop calling her old! Lisa D’amato is 30 and she won ANTM all stars!
January 12, 2012 at 8:45 am
Shes beautiful enough said.