Whitney Thompson was a contestant and the winner of Cycle 10 of ANTM.
Before her appearance on the show, Whitney worked locally in northern Florida and appeared on the cover of Jacksonville Magazine three times. Besides modeling, Whitney worked at Chets Creek Elementary School in the before-and-after-school day care programs and she attended Duncan University, Fletcher High School and the University of North Florida, where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega.
Whitney competed against thirteen other contestants to win Cycle 10 of America’s Next Top Model. Some of the judges criticized her performances and personality as being ‘too pageant’ and ‘fake’. Thompson received a first call-out during the music-themed photo shoot, and won one ‘CoverGirl of the Week’ title, from the final photo shoot challenge of Cycle 10. She landed in the ‘bottom two’ a total of four times.
Although she is naturally a brunette, Thompson received blonde hair extensions for her makeover on the show. After the show, she changed her hair color to dark blonde.
As part of the ANTM prize package awarded to her, Thompson received a contract with CoverGirl cosmetics and a contract from Elite Model Management. She also received the cover and six-page editorial spread in the July 2008 issue of Seventeen. Thompson’s CoverGirl contract includes a U.S. national TV commercial, print advertising, and a billboard in Times Square.
Whitney appeared on the June 2008 issue of In Touch Weekly, an ad with Metrostyle, the cover of Jacksonville Magazine (August 2005 and 2008), Seventeen Magazine (July 2008), Silhouette Catalog, Fashion Bug, Smile Stylist, Supermodels Unlimited (September/October 2008), Yahoo Style and Diana Warner Jewelry She has also been featured on Tyra Banks’ magazine, and tyrabanks.com.
She did presentations for JCPenney and Saks Fifth Avenue at New York Fashion Week 2008 and also walked for House of Dereon on the Tyra Banks Show, as well as Little in the Middle, Fashion Forward and the Third Annual Elle Boutique and Diana Warner Fashion Show.
Thompson has been featured in interviews with People magazine, Live with Regis and Kelly, Entertainment Tonight, Extra, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, E! News, and The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, and has appeared in two episodes of Cycle 11 including the finale. She’s also appeared in MTV’s Made.
She is currently a spokesperson for Smile-Stylist and Right Fit. Whitney has also recently been voted by MSN as one of the most influential women of 2008. Whitney has also been featured in their “The Year in Beauty” article. In addition, she has also taken part in the Broadway Bares event to fight AIDS.
Whitney is currently signed with Wilhelmina Models in New York. She was previously with Elite Model Management.
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April 9, 2010 at 9:33 pm
Gorgeous girl. =)
April 17, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Looks to me like she’s losing weight, not good. But she is gorgeous still.
March 12, 2011 at 10:46 pm
She is losing weight; I guess she really does want to look like all the toothpick girls she put down. Didn’t like her, she’s so fake.
November 18, 2011 at 7:57 pm
YES! now you can see she’s just another catalog model, nothing less….such a bummer, I thought she was going to stay true to what she made the judges believe to be a genuine “plus-size” model.
May 20, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Awww. Looks to me that she succumbed to pressure and lost weight; what a shame! I think she is stunning! I can understand the pressure she must have been under though to get work, but its just a shame. I think she is gorgeous!
June 6, 2010 at 12:35 pm
She is just beautiful!
July 6, 2010 at 1:43 am
Sure, she was beautiful and had great pictures. And to think she was picked as the winner over girls like Fatima, Anya and Katarzyna. Hmm.
July 10, 2010 at 9:35 am
She hasn’t lost weight; she’s still plus size. Those pictures where she is thinner were from before Top Model when she was younger. She was a small size, but then she gained weight because she was not comfortable in her body. She said she loved herself as plus size not as a sample size.
February 15, 2011 at 11:15 pm
How did she gain weight?
July 8, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Uh… She ate food?
August 3, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Whitney is so fake; her smile is fake, she is fake and she is my least favorite winner. She only won because they needed a plus size winner to be all pc. There were so many better plus-sizes than her who really ought to have won.
June 18, 2011 at 8:25 am
Idk how she can be your least fave winner. There have been way worse like cycle 5 Nicole, or cycle 15 Anne, and Whitney was most definitely real throughout the show, she just had some pitfalls, so dont diss the plus size model and say that they chose her because they needed a plus size winner, truth be told, Whitney didnt really have much competition in cycle 10 anyway. It was obvious she was gonna win!!
July 14, 2011 at 2:34 am
How can you count Ann as a least favorite winner?! I think she is one of the best so far, it’s just that she has an interesting look. Whitney is definitely the worst winner of antm, how could she have lost to Katarzyna and Anya and Fatima?
November 18, 2011 at 8:01 pm
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???? Katarzyna was obviously way more beautiful than most of contestants, and i agree with Kay Gee, she just won because they wanted her to do so, even though the judges always favored Anya.
August 15, 2010 at 12:48 am
Whitney is stunning. Anyone who thinks differently needs to have their eyes checked and is clearly in the minority.
September 6, 2010 at 7:16 am
She is too beautiful to be plus sized; don’t get me wrong, but she could be so successful if she would have lost some weight. I don’t care what the others said, she cannot be a plus-sized model. Leave that for Toccara or Diane; they are the real plus-sized models.
November 5, 2010 at 6:06 am
I really do not agree with you. Her face reminds me of a pig, and that is completely unrelated to her weight. Also, as a person she was rude and obnoxious and had no grace whatsoever. Such a stunt to make her win the cycle :S
January 7, 2011 at 8:56 am
I disagree. I think she has beauteful bone structure. And she deserved to win. I think she proves that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Society has lost it’s grip on natural beauty. Back in the day art was all natural women with curves.
September 24, 2010 at 1:16 am
Found her fake. Sorry!
March 8, 2011 at 12:33 am
Ohh, soo fake! She is THE WORST ANTM WINNER EVER!! They only picked her because they haven’t chosen a plus-size model.
June 7, 2011 at 1:46 am
Bubbly, they chose her because she did a lt better than Anaya okay. She had a better Runway walk than she did.
August 9, 2011 at 9:47 pm
In no way did she do better than Anya. I believe that it was Anya’s speech that cost her the competition. They almost did the same thing with Danny. But if you ever watch the episode where Jade got eliminated, you can see that Jade eliminated herself in the last moment. Tyra clearly has two photos left because she had to kinda leaf through the photos in her hand to get Danny’s photo. Anya has had a terrific career despite ANTM. It has happened for a lot of these contestants. They can’t choose them all. And it is not a nice contest. Whitney was an aweful person. She even made terrible comments about Anya and Anya never said anything about anyone. She was sweet as pie. But, its not like Whitney became a Tokara. She has already faded away. Hopefully her career humbled her.
October 10, 2010 at 2:06 am
She was extremely fake!! It was so clear she only won because she was a plus size. I mean honestly, who else have you known that was in the bottom two that many times for the same thing and continued on to WIN?? PUHLEASE.
March 8, 2011 at 2:16 pm
I stopped watching ANTM after this cycle~picking Whitney was a joke, esp. over Anya! The show has lost all its credibility with me.
April 20, 2011 at 6:44 pm
I kinda agree … I mean, it was like she didn’t do anything that fantastic to win and Anya was in the top till the end. She couldn’t walk in the darn dresses she was given, funny how they were both stride restricting and Whitney’s flowed all over the place…she did HAM it up like Paulina said.
June 18, 2011 at 8:30 am
I disagree. When I watched Cycle 10 I was lucky if i could ever understand what Anya was saying and she was kind of a bubble brain. I felt like she acted a little more on the fake side sometimes than Whitney did. I wouldnt want a spokesperson that I couldn’t understand.
December 11, 2011 at 3:21 pm
I was bewildered – I thought they were going to tell Whitney that were walk was beyond cheesy on the Versace runway. She did several photo shoots like she was beyond it all, and didn’t listen when Tyra told her to stop sticking her boobs and butt out like she was Mae West. She has nice cheekbones and her eyes look pretty in a couple of photos but almost anybody’s eyes look great if the lighting is right. I’m sorry, I don’t get it, I think Anya should have won. As far as plus size models go I think Toccara wipes the floor with Whitney, and so does Alexandra from a later cycle, although I didn’t like her attitude, but then I didn’t always like Whitney’s for that matter. Katarzyna, Fatima or Anya should have won.
October 11, 2010 at 5:31 am
I don’t think she deserved to win. Don’t you guys wonder how the first plus-sized model won in the cycle that had two numbers and her size has two numbers?
October 15, 2010 at 10:26 pm
I love Whitney!! I think she’s soooo gorgeous and I’m glad she won.
October 26, 2010 at 11:13 pm
No mereció ganar. Yo igual que la mayoria la encuentro falsa, hubieron chicas mejores que ella, pero creo que la temporada ya estaba arreglada para que ella ganara por lo que es plus size.
Rough Translation: “She did not deserve to win. I agree with the all that say she was fake. There were girls better that she, but I believe that the cycle was pre-arranged for her to win because she was plus sized.”
October 31, 2010 at 2:27 pm
I always have to remind myself that this is reality TV, not actual reality, because in reality there’s no way Whitney should have won…not when she’s up against girls like Fatima, Anya and Katarzyna. I’m not talking about her looks. She’s a very beautiful girl. But come on…you put Whitney next to those three anywhere else on the planet and no one’s even going to notice her. She’s wallpaper. Let’s get real. Nobody’s going to push the other three out of the way to get to freakin’ Whitney. But Tyra was on a crusade to push her whole “big is beautiful” thing, so the fix was in for Whitney from the start.
And since I’m not afraid to talk about the elephant in the room, I’m just going to put this out there. As pretty as Whitney is, I wouldn’t buy anything she’s wearing because Whitney is fat. I don’t admire it and I don’t want to wear fat-girl clothes. I don’t want to buy clothes from women who look like me. I want to buy from women who look the way I WANT to look. That’s how fashion works, and that’s why fat girls don’t sell clothes as well as thin girls.
I’m SO sick of this whole politically-correct plus-sized thing because all it does is send a message that you should feel good about yourself even though you’re fat. No, you shouldn’t. If you truly love yourself, you should feel like putting yourself on a healthy diet and getting your fat ass to the gym every day until you get back to a healthy weight.
Before you all jump down my throat, think about it. That whole plus-sized thing sends a dangerous message to women to feel free to lie to themselves about what they see in the mirror instead of dealing honestly with themselves about being overweight. Fat, especially if you hold on to it for years, means eventually your health will suffer. Fat kills.
Fat, especially belly fat, leads to eventual diabetes, which leads to coronary artery disease (a certain heart attack), high blood pressure (heart attack), kidney failure (dialysis), liver disease (transplant), blindness and amputation (completely screwed).
Every year you live with uncontrolled diabetes brings you a step closer to a heart attack, massive organ failure, stroke, coma and death. And with Type 2 diabetes, it’s almost ALWAYS caused by too much belly fat. Telling me to love myself even though I’m fat is one thing, and I’m all for that. But pushing plus-sized models at me in an effort to make me think I’m pretty even though I’m fat just sends a dangerous message that I’m fine the way I am so I don’t have to do anything about it.
As a Type 2 diabetic, I’ve worked out for two hours every single day for the last three years to get and keep my weight under control in order to save my own life. I don’t do it for vanity. I do it because I don’t want to die one organ at a time.
I truly don’t appreciate this effort on the part of the fashion community to convince me that I should embrace my fat and see it as beautiful, because it’s not. GOOD HEALTH IS BEAUTIFUL, and it’s what we should all be striving for. While I think that most models are way too thin, the opposite is just as bad.
I don’t want to look like I just escaped from Auschwitz, but I also don’t want the “she’d be so pretty if she just lost 30 pounds” thing going on either. To me it seems the fashion industry just doesn’t get it. There’s no middle ground for them. They went from pushing girls built like pre-teen boys at me, to pushing pear-shaped girls at me in an effort to be politically correct. What is wrong with models that are 5’10″ and are a size 8 or 10? Why do models have to be either too skinny or too fat? WHAT IS SO UNATTRACTIVE ABOUT GOOD HEALTH?!!!
Bottom line, pretty as she is, Whitney’s a hippy girl, and no designer anywhere on Earth is going to choose Whitney to sell clothes over Anya, Fatima or Kartarzyna for any reason in the real world…unless it’s a plus-sized show.
I’m saying this as someone who used to model in my youth, and I had a body that stopped traffic. But when I got older, had a baby and gained my weight, I became totally invisible to the whole world. But once I lost the weight, I started turning heads again. Why? Because unfair though it may be, that’s how the real world works, and in that world, Whitney’s got zero chance of beating the other girls. I prefer to keep it real with myself, and speaking as one who is fighting my own fat battle, I’d rather get fed up and take control of my health than to go on lying to myself that I still look great, even in fat-girl clothes. Diabetes may still kill me, but I’ll be wearing a size 10 when they bury me.
December 1, 2010 at 10:26 am
I am a size 16+. I do not have type II diabetes. I do not have heart disease and my arteries are not clogged with fat. If God loves us exactly as we are who are you to tell us not to love ourselves exactly as we are. You are the one with the problem.
Just because you feel ugly does not mean you have the right to inflict it on someone else. I am overweight and I still turn heads. My smile, intelligence, kindness and non-judgmental attitude attract men all the time. I say, to all plus size persons don’t stop enjoying life. People like Gina would welcome a thin child molester or murderer in their lives and bar and discriminate against you because you are “overweight.”
April 8, 2011 at 5:41 pm
You’re the one who’s a size 16 and you assume someone else feels ugly for saying that glorifying fat people promotes bad health?
If you put down the donut long enough to read what the person you replied to was saying, they didn’t say that you have diabetes the second you get fat, but that being overweight leads to diabetes, and heart attack and a plethora of other health issues that can kill you, which is true.
Fat people keep talking about anorexia and how unhealthy it is to be underweight and not eat enough food, but the same is true on the other end of the spectrum as well. Just as much as you don’t tell anorexics to “love their bones” and “God made you have an eating disorder so love yourself!” you don’t tell a fat chick to love her “curves” aka fat rolls, and you don’t tell them God made them that way, BECAUSE HE DIDN’T.
It isn’t GOD telling you to eat more calories than you burn off in a day, it’s gluttony, and gluttony is a “sin” if you’re religious. God would tell you to STOP EATING because eating more than you need means you’ll burn in hell. Damn right.
December 15, 2010 at 7:00 am
You do realize that Whitney is a size 10, right?
February 4, 2011 at 5:30 am
Actually, I wouldn’t buy anything Fatima sold because I, in my size 12, would never fit into anything she wore or if I did, it would ceirtainly not flatter me at all. While Whitney, who is closer to my body type, could sell me pretty much anything, from panties to dresses. And I’m not fat, neither is she. We are normal, with real, average sizes.
April 20, 2011 at 12:32 am
Wow. You need to calm down. Nobody is interested in your soapbox here. If you want to fight the fat, get on the Michelle Obama train and help her teach children how to eat properly. That’s where healthy habits should start.
I’m going back to looking at model photos… you know, the reason why most people come to this website.
April 20, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Very well said.
June 1, 2011 at 3:38 am
You’re absolutely disgusting. Not every overweight woman is unhealthy. For some people, a size 0-2 is just not practical…unless they starve themselves to death. People like you are EXACTLY what is wrong in our society. You can keep your stick-thin, anorexic sickly looking skeletons. I prefer to see REAL women.
July 14, 2011 at 2:49 am
couldn’t have said it better myself. Why aren’t there normal sized models, not fat, yet not too skinny? I myself am a size 0-2, but that is because I am petite, only 5’1. And also i dont understand why models have to be so tall, because not everyone is like that and the clothes that are made for 6 ft tall people won’t fit!! Most skinny girls don’t have anorexia, they are just naturally thin. And about the fat issue, I do think it’s unhealthy, but for some it is in their genes, but they could still try to excercise or have a healthy diet to try to get down to a normal size. America is 65% overweight, and that is just unacceptable, because i know that all theses people are not “naturally fat”.
August 10, 2011 at 3:06 am
wat r u talking about seriously.. some girls cant help there weight it sometimes runs in there family… i know alot of ppeople that work and work to lose weight they just cant.. and ME.. im big but people love my body cuz im not a twig . in the olden days having a big wife was a great thing. im beautiful the way i am honostly.. i think im gorgeous honostly. i got a beautiful face and a great body when i know how to use it. i think this girl is gorgeous out of alot of people . i work out alot. being big dont mean anything bad. at least people think im beautiful. even I think im beautiful. i used to hate the way i looked for a long time but i changed my look. you should say crap about people. if shes fake so what she did have amazing pictures and as great walk. i agree with the fact u say eat healthier yes but not all big ppl can do things like u. my mom had a disease that she cant stand long . shes a beauition and shes amazing. so is my sister there beautiful and were plus sizes. but i admire my family no matter what. i dnt wanna look like a twig. i dont want to be able to see my bones and not have boobs or ass. and getting implants is just stupid anyways i think there idiots to do that. but its w.e to me. i think everyone is beautifuil in there own way when they take care of themselves.
December 24, 2011 at 9:05 am
Wow, you had so much to say, yet you said nothing. Instead of talking about the elephant in the room let’s talk about the idiot in the room. You talk about overweight people, but you don’t know their lives nor do you know what circumstances they came from. You never mention the numerous people who are a size 0 to 2 that have health problems. I have known HUNDREDS of small women in my lifetime that think they are all that and put others down, yet can’t seem to get their OWN health in order. Before you throw stones at other people, you need to knock yourself upside the head a few times with a boulder. Wake up. Work on loving yourself, not just getting healthy, but that’s a great start. Good luck
November 3, 2010 at 6:56 pm
She looks like a porn star, c’mon! Like the ones from the Playboy Mansion. I see better plus-sized models than her. She was planted in ANTM. Four bottom two’s?? Ugh whatever to Tyra who’s trying to prove something. I think plus-sized models should be in a separate next top model competition.
April 20, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Sadly to say she actually reminded me of Anna Nicole Smith…
November 5, 2010 at 6:02 am
Gah, I cannot believe Whitney won! I really do not like her look and completely agree with ‘Not a fan of her’. She looks like a mean piglet porn star. :S
November 5, 2010 at 6:07 am
Whitney, you disgust me.
November 7, 2010 at 7:36 pm
I couldn’t stand her personality. She was such a fake person. I also didn’t think her pictures were all that pretty and she needs to learn to take pictures with her mouth closed. There is no doubt in my mind that it was fixed — Anya DEFINITELY should have won!!
November 18, 2010 at 12:08 pm
She’s so stunning! I love her look, but I liked her as a brunette better. She does look kind of like a porn star with the blond hair. I don’t know if she deserved to win for being a top model, but she was the prettiest girl imo.
November 19, 2010 at 4:37 am
Whitney’s face is NOT pretty. She doesn’t have the body and her nose looks pinched. I loveeeed Anya and Katarzyna. Either of them should have won.
December 1, 2010 at 10:05 am
@Gina, The average woman in America is a size 16+. Unfortunately, we only see models that are stick thin and we will never know how the clothes they wear will look on us. The only reason why she was scored so low was because of her body size. As for health issues Thin people have type II diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, breast cancer,etc., while there are large people that live into their 90′s and thin people that die in their 40′s and 50′s.
People are beautiful and prejudice by others should not be allowed to play a role in any contest. There are ANTM watchers that think winners are ugly simply because their facial features aren’t white and/or their skin is too dark. Just because someone does not fit your concept of beauty does not make them ugly. If you do not like it turn off the television.
Why is it that whenever a model wins and a person doesn’t like it they accuse Tyra of cheating? In the last cycle the second runner up tripped in her final runway walk causing chaos and lost, but Tyra was accused of cheating.
September 9, 2011 at 10:58 am
Although I was not exactly impressed with Whitney’s personality (I found her pretty fake as well), she is a beautiful girl.
@Veritas, I agree 100%.
@Gina, Just an FYI, size 10 is FAR from fat, unhealthy, and ugly. I myself teeter from a size 8 to an 11, and I am a completely healthy, normal, (and what people tell me) pretty girl. I’ve actually had people on more than one occasion tell me they wish they were born with my build, rather than their stick-thin figures, Sure, I don’t turn every head when I enter the room, but nor do most women. For example, look at Marilyn Monroe. She averaged size 12 dress, 8 jeans. Whether or not you are “fat” or “skinny”, chances are you will get sick, and eventually you will die. Oh, an maybee next time you decide to insult womens’ weight, appearance, and lifestyle, you should Google the complications of anorexia & bulimia as well.
And to all of you making your “politically “correct” remarks about “they rigged it for a fat girl to win”, why don’t you just go back to throwing up that supper of yours, and carry on with your size 2 life. We real women, however, will continue to be happy, healthy, and beautiful.
Sorry to those who I offended here, but I myself am completely offended by the “fat girl” remarks. Comments like this are what cause most girls to view themselves as ugly. This leads to eating disorders and poor self esteem, which can last throughout a girl’s life.
December 9, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Wow, I can’t believe how strongly people feel about this. I love some ANTM, but it’s a TV show, y’all! I did like Whitney. I’m not huge, but I have never been skinny, and I was glad to see a plus-size winner. I loved Anya, too, however, it was tough that season. But it was A SHOW. I am surprised you would get on here and call other human beings “pigs” and “ugly.” Was it rigged so that a plus sized girl would win? I don’t know. So what if it was? It’s TELEVISION, people. It’s entertainment. It’s drama, it’s comedy . . . get over it.
April 20, 2011 at 6:50 pm
like like like
December 10, 2010 at 5:02 am
Whitney: 5’10″, says she’s 165. If we fudge it and add 5 just to be safe, she’s still got a BMI of 24.4 which is well within normal range. (Healthy goes from 18.5 – 24.9)
Fatima, 5’9.5″, 110 — BMI of 16.0. Underweight is <18.5. Being THAT underweight puts you at significant risk for heart problems among other diseases.
Whitney will probably outlive Fatima at this rate. Being light != being healthy. So STFU.
March 15, 2011 at 8:05 am
Best answer ever. You used actual facts and numbers, which can’t be disputed as easily (which is why no one has disputed you).
Another thing people do not take into consideration is the fact that muscle weighs so much more than fat, and Whitney has been described as being an athlete, so the theory that she is fat and unhealthy rings untrue.
December 20, 2010 at 2:37 am
I agree with some of the comments above. I didn’t expect her to win. She was unlikeable AND I do not find her pretty at all. Plus sized or no. Something about her nose bothers me, it reminds me of someone or something but I can’t place my finger on it just right now. She’s like a waaaaaaaaay less cute Anna Nicole Smith. And I already find A.N. a bit grating.
December 26, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Whitney’s super! Do you understand ?
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January 10, 2011 at 2:41 pm
I don’t care about size; I like all body types. I just think she’s pretty, but that’s the problem. She is pretty and nothing more. And her photos provoke no emotion; none.
I’ve seen prostitutes that looked better than her.
January 19, 2011 at 3:01 am
I don’t think anyone is talking about the sizes of the models; it’s just that Whitney’s personality is fake. I’m fat as well, but yeah I don’t think she should’ve won. Anya WAS and still is WAY better than she was. Whitney’s just too FAKE!!!!!!
February 1, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Guys, you are just jealous! Get over it; Whitney deserved to win. She did that catwalk far better than Anya. And do not even dare accuse Tyra of cheating just because the person you wanted to did not win. It doesn’t mean that she cheated, losers. Go Whitney go go go! And FYI: I am a size 8.
February 9, 2011 at 3:31 pm
I prefer her as a brunette; it brings out the green of her eyes more.
I also think the blonde makes her look older than she is. Still, I wanted Anya to win ANTM 10. 
March 1, 2011 at 12:56 pm
I really didn’t think she should’ve won. In fact, she shouldn’t have been in the top 2. Anya was clearly tons better than her, and it shows because her career today is amazing. Where is Whitney today? All she had were her appearances on The Tyra Show, and now that that’s over…what now? I think ANTM has become about politics and not skill.
March 8, 2011 at 7:30 pm
She was so condescending. She would talk about the snide comments made to her like ‘you’re pretty for a big girl,’ and she said she hated it. Yet she constantly said things like ‘I want to represent for girls who really do eat,’ or ‘I am not one of these skinny little toothpicks.’ She was really fake.
May 3, 2011 at 5:37 am
How does hating people that are trying to degrade her as a model make her fake? She’s owning the fact that she’s considered “bigger” in the modeling industry, yes, but that doesn’t mean she has to take the garbage thrown at her for it.
March 11, 2011 at 12:35 am
I think she is a great model, because she is not ashamed to work as a plus-size model.
March 11, 2011 at 1:34 am
Her post ANTM photos are gorgeous. That black and white head shot of her with dark hair and the chunky necklace is absolutely stunning. That girls cheekbones are amazing.
March 16, 2011 at 9:08 pm
ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS girl. I’m so glad she won the competition. She is the epitome of a Top Model; she has the looks, personality and style.
March 17, 2011 at 4:41 am
After re-watching that cycle, I found her to be a really bad model as well as an unlikeable person. She took one good photo and spent most of her time on the show on the bottom. I can’t believe they kept her over someone like Kat, who is doing much better now in the real world of modeling.
Oh, and how many times did she say that she likes to eat and she is plus sized so she is normal?? I’m a size 2, and I eat, so according to Whitney I’m not normal. She got on my nerves so much and she was mean to Anya, who was supposedly her friend! I think she was jealous of all the other girls. I see she doesn’t have much post-show work so I’m glad to see that.
July 30, 2011 at 12:25 am
She was not mean at all! She took Anya for shopping in Rome!
March 25, 2011 at 2:55 am
I didnt like her. She was like, WORST THAN SALEISHA and I can’t quite get how she managed to win like this. I agree with all of the people that say Tyra chose her because they needed a plus-size to win.
I look at her and she looks like a pig. Not her body, her face. And she wasn’t charming at all, I am kind of surprised that she found jobs. Seriously, done with ANTM. Just to say, Whitney from cycle 8 was so much better. Why couldn’t she be on this season? She could have kicked that piglet’s a**!!!
April 20, 2011 at 6:58 pm
Why do people have to cuss and call names? This is about adult opinions and modeling . I wanted Anya to win but would never say such awful , hurtful things. Thumbs down.
April 20, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Well, I like Anya the best . HOWEVER, why on earth are people saying Whitney looks like a pig? She has the prettiest face. Why be mean? Like your favorite but leave off the shoddy remarks. You could tell she hid behind insecurities about her weight. The girl was gorgeous in a way you don’t see anymore… NORMAL. Like Christy Brinkley or Kim or Carol..from that era. Now beauty is looked at in a different way.. I look at some of those models and think how in the world are they on this show they are so ugly.
All of them have been size 2.
April 28, 2011 at 7:27 pm
she needs to stop posing like she’s a porn star! She’s pretty with blonde hair, but more attractive as a brunette.
May 3, 2011 at 3:31 am
A huge disappointment that Whitney won this cycle! She is beautiful, no doubt but failed to win me over! I hoped every single time she was on the chopping block that she would be the one to leave! I guess Tyra was under pressure to produce a “full figured” model PRONTO! There were better than her in previous seasons! This one and season 9 were nothing but jokes!
May 3, 2011 at 5:35 am
I hate that when I look at Whitney, I think “fat”. She’s not fat, she’s healthy, but I’m so used to looking at stick-skinny girls in these photos that anything bigger than their size 0 selves makes me cringe. It makes me sad.
May 9, 2011 at 5:00 am
why is she settling to be a plus size when she was skinny and hot before? she could have probably became more successful if she kept that skinny model figure in her younger photos. beautiful women tho, all around.
May 25, 2011 at 2:44 am
I just can’t comprehend how Whitney managed to win that cycle.. and her weight seems to change all the time, that’s not very healthy.. But nevertheless, I have a question and I wish someone could give me a valid answer: on the Covergirl photo it seems to me Whitney’s mouth isn’t her own, like it’s photoshopped bigger or they have put someone else’s mouth on her or something.. Am I wrong??!!
December 17, 2011 at 8:09 am
on the figure I doubt thats her.
June 5, 2011 at 2:40 am
Good features but typical american beauty. Good for tv! I don’t like her much. =\\
June 13, 2011 at 3:43 am
Well she obviously didn’t make it “big”. If you count JCpenny online ads and a short stint on tv as an actual modeling career.
Why? Because she looks like a 40 year old soccer mom from Middle America. She’s not high fashion. She’s not even commercial. She may be a role model for being fat, but that doesn’t make her a model.
June 17, 2011 at 7:51 am
I think around the time Tyra was on her Whitney crusade she was a bit over weight herself. I remember when the tabloids had pictures of Tyra in a bathing suit and she was pissed that they were calling her fat she said it didn’t bother her but she quickly shed those pounds. I didn’t like Whitney not because she was in the so called plus size category I thought she couldn’t model and from the pictures above she still can’t. I though Anya or Katarzyna should have won. You can always tell who Tyra wants to win, she praises them even when they don’t do so good.
June 18, 2011 at 7:48 am
Y’all are just haters.
True, Whitney was against fierce competition (Anya, Kata, Fatima), and whether or not she deserved to win is debatable.
But she really is beautiful, and one of the best plussies the show had.
July 4, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Hey. She`s big, she`s fat but… where are folds?? So, that`s photoshop… And what is the idea of big-size model with photoshop?
August 4, 2011 at 11:16 am
I very happy, that model with size + won !!!!
August 13, 2011 at 6:39 am
I think Whitney has a wonderful figure, but I don’t find her face pretty at all. Her jawline and mouth area are kind of odd looking. If Tyra really just wanted to promote “plus-size” models, she’s had plenty of other models that I think had more potential and beauty than this girl.
August 14, 2011 at 9:49 am
Whenever she smiles with her teeth, she looks so fake, but when her mouth IS CLOSED, her pictures tend to be pretty decent. She still needs to learn how to close her mouth more often.
September 5, 2011 at 4:09 am
Stop being such haters, In fairness every year on ANTM skinny stick girls win and for once a plus size model has won and its only happened once and all of you are just talking about it like its happened a million times……Just give Whitney a break and let her be a model in her own unique way!
In my opinion Whitney is gorgeous and shows plus sizes that they can be big and beautiful, so give up on leaving mean comments and think about other people for a change!.
October 5, 2011 at 12:02 pm
She is very very pretty but not SUPER model metireal… In some fotos she takes great shots and in others, not so good shots!
In the real world she has a really good body and is very skinny, but sadly in the modeling world…she is fat, the truth hurts but its true!
October 13, 2011 at 2:36 am
Not all people that way a certain amount, or wear a certain size have folds. Some people are quite healthy at a larger size. Sometimes we just have the body that God gave us. I am 5’10 and can weigh 130 lbs and will still have to wear a size twelve due to bone structure (hourglass). I am lucky though because I have weighed a significant amount more…around 195, following childbirth, and I was still able to fit in a 14. I think that for taller women, and some shorter women depending on their body structure-hourglass or spoon, that trying to pigeon hole them as fat or not is quite unfair….women are all unique,….
October 24, 2011 at 6:23 pm
She has been WORKING! People think that models “hang” around all day. With her new work schedule and busier lifestyle, of course she is losing weight. So the women at home stuffing there faces and “hating” her for working … shut up.
I just hope she can keep it up after the work dries up. Good Luck Whitney!
November 8, 2011 at 2:40 pm
She’s a very pretty girl but I think her winning was a fix.
She was always in bottom 2, her personality was awful as was her walk. Even designers would comment on her personality. Anya was stunning and had gorgeous photos should have been her
December 15, 2011 at 11:45 pm
I don’t understand why Whitney won. I don’t care about her weight. All that I see is that she isn’t beautiful, she has small eyes, fake smile…
She has no grace, no elegance. She’s so vulgar.
The “cliché” oh the american woman.
There are so many beautiful big-size woman. Why her ???
Pathetic !
December 16, 2011 at 9:15 am
Probably one of the most beautiful faces in the competition…stunning!
December 16, 2011 at 4:22 pm
I didn’t like her! She was talking about all the girls behind their backs and also she was very fake. I hated the way she spoke and smiled. Anya should’ve won!
December 17, 2011 at 8:07 am
did anyone notice 90% of times she only has one dumb expression? Talking about versatile – oh right, I forgot, looking fat is versatile enough.
Which is a shame, because when I googled her, the non-model pictures look quite OK. I just don’t think she makes a good model, no matter how big she is.
January 20, 2012 at 3:45 am
Boooooooo! Her pictures are so boring. I didn’t really like her anyway. She is not a good plus sized model. I think the better plus-sized model was the young woman from the one cycle who dated the race car driver. Plus Tocarra was much better than Whitney and her success shows. The only problem with Tocarra was the size of her breasts because her breast made her disproportionate.
January 31, 2013 at 3:38 am
The only thing I can say is that I really liked Anya, Fatima, and Katarzyna. They were my favorites of the cycle, I also liked Aimee. I thought she was pretty. However I don’t know if I believe there was a fix in for a plus size model to win. I do think that people should keep their comments to a professional and respectful standard-whether positive or negative about the models.