Tyra Banks: What is a Plus Size Model?
Courtesy of: The Tyra Banks Show Website
Plus-size models participate in a variety of modeling jobs including print work, runway shows, and fit or informal modeling. Fashion modeling is the category aspiring models usually think of when they dream of being a model. Fashion plus modeling can include a magazine cover or layout, representing a plus-size manufacturer in print advertisements, or strutting down the catwalk in the latest Lane Bryant lingerie.
Requirements Can Include:
Between 5′8″ and 6′0″
5′9″ is pretty much minimum for larger markets though Wilhelmina in NYC does represent a few girls who are 5′7″ and 5′8″.
Size 12, 14, 16
Sizes 10 and 18/20 are also used, but are not as common.
Toned
You may be a “plus size,” but you may have to be in shape if you model swimwear, lingerie or fitness gear.
Read more here…
Be on the Tyra Banks Show:
I am thinking about becoming a model when I leave school. I currently live in the UK, but I have family in the US. I am 15, almost 16 and my current height is 5′2″, and I haven’t grown in a while. Do you know of any modelling agency’s that are willing to take smaller models?
Megan.
Comment by Megan — March 27, 2009 @ 6:23 pm