‘America’s Next Top Model’ Plus-Size Winner Admits She’d ‘Cry in the Shower’ Over How She Was Treated

Despite winning cycle 10 of America’s Next Top Model in 2008, Whitney Thompson did not have a positive experience on the show.

In an interview with People published on Friday, February 13, Thompson, 38, explained that being a plus-size model on the hit competition show was difficult, noting she wasn’t even given clothes in her size.

“I just pretended like it didn’t bother me, but, and I’m sure most of the girls would do this, I would cry in the shower every day because the shower is the only place that the cameramen couldn’t come, so that was your safe place to release and be like, ‘Why are they doing this to me?’ ” she recalled. “I knew that they were trying to poke me and get something out of me, so I just played it cool, like, ‘That’s fine. We’ll just duct tape my dress. No worries.'”

In the upcoming documentary Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model — which drops on Netflix February 16 — Thompson shares more insight into how she was treated while filming the reality...