Plus Model Magazine’s January Issue feature’s America’s Next Top Model Winner Whitney Thompson

NEW YORK, NY (December 3, 2009) – PLUS Model Magazine, (http://www.plusmodelmag.com) the premiere virtual magazine celebrating the plus size fashion, beauty, arts and modeling industries, today announced that America’s Next Top Model winner, Whitney Thompson, will grace the cover of PLUS Model Magazine’s January issue. Thompson is the first-ever full figured model to win America’s Next Top Model. Since the show Whitney has gone on to appear in numerous print campaigns, runway shows and served as Fashion Bug’s Right Fit brand ambassador. She is currently signed with Wilhelmina Models.

“We are very happy to feature Whitney Thompson on the January cover. We followed her progress on America’s Next Top Model and we all routed her on. When she won, the plus modeling industry won,” states Madeline Figueroa-Jones, editor of PLUS Model Magazine.

In addition to the cover, Whitney will also appear in a high fashion editorial and be featured on an upcoming edition of PLUS Model Radio; the #1 podcast for plus size women.

About PLUS Model Magazine

Launched July 1, 2006, PLUS Model Magazine is a premiere virtual magazine celebrating and inspiring the plus size fashion and modeling industries. Designed as a fusion of technology and gloss, PLUS encourages the plus size woman to thrive in her curves, crave contemporary fashion and design her life on her own terms, sans apologies. More than 40 million women, in the United States alone, wear a size 14 and up. PLUS Model Magazine is the muse for the aspiring and professional plus size model by providing information and resources needed to have a successful modeling career. The pages of PLUS also embrace fashion-forward designers and plus size clothing companies working to redefine fashion for curves.

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About Editor-in-Chief, Madeline Jones

Always an activist and looking to bring plus size women into a fashion forward mentality, in 2006 she combined forces with friend and online magazine publisher, Valery Amador, to create PLUS Model Magazine, where they could respond to plus women's demand for fashionable clothing displayed prominently on appropriately sized models. Since then, Ms. Jones has quickly become the, 'Anna Wintour' of the plus size industry where she is frequently called upon for her expertise and insight; Appearances and interviews include ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, Entertainment Tonight, Coco Perez, Fox News, HuffingtonPost.com and 200+ other media sources.