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‘Are You Worried You’ll Look More Plus-Size?’


America’s Next Top Model tried to give me an embarrassing new look, but I had never felt more like myself.

She looked around and then leaned in close to whisper: “Victoria found a piece of paper that, like, had a list of our names on it and then what our personalities were and how they wanted to edit us.” In his interview with Oliver TwiXt, Nigel Barker repeatedly and reflexively referred to the contestants as “characters” before correcting himself: “I mean girls.” So it made sense to me that somewhere, people were crafting our public-­facing personas out of all the footage they had. To prepare, I’d made a list of New York City agencies that represented plus-­size models, and the second I was legally allowed, I started to submit applications and go to open calls.

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