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Skinny Models Out, Plus-Size In?

Could stick-thin models be on their way off the runway? That's what some are wondering after Whitney Thompson became the first plus-size model to win "America's Next Top Model" last week. Thompson, 20, is a size 10. She's not at all fat by conventional standards; she's slimmer than the 34 percent of Americans older than 20 who are obese. But compared with the impossibly thin models dominating runways around the world, she's big, and she's considered plus-size in the modeling industry. She's...Full Story
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