Model Shocked Over ‘Bitchiness’

The 16-year-old high school student, Blaise McCann from the NSW Hunter Valley, who’s a plus size model says she is shocked at the bitchiness over weight issues on the TV program Australia’s Next Top Model.

Six foot tall and a size 16, Blaise is a finalist in a national competition to be the next “real super model.”

Having battled with weight issues all her life, she is horrified at the message the reality TV show portrays, despite admitting she loves the program for its entertainment value.

“It’s shocking that there’s one girl on it, she’s a size 10, and they’re like, ‘you’re too fat go away and lose weight. I just think, that’s a normal looking girl, what would they say if I got on there…They’d be like, ‘stop eating’, or something.”

Blaise has tried various diets throughout her whole life and has always wanted to be a model, but never thought she’d have any hope until entering the plus size competition.

“Being a bigger girl you have to have a personality because people judge you in that one instant they see you and go, or, you know, she’s a big girl,” Blaise said.

She is delighted to have won the NSW Division at the weekend, and has been blown away with how everyone has been so nice to her “…whereas with the skinny girls they instantly like them just because that’s the way the eye is. The big girls I know are really, really nice because you’ve got to have good personalities for people to like you.”

Winning the finals in August Blaise would receive a $30,000 contract as the face of plus size retailer City Chic, a photo shoot with Cosmopolitan magazine and the possibility of being signed to BGM Models.

Blaise says she just wants to represent “real Australians”.

“People look upon bigger people with such a critical eye, whereas we’re just people, too……I’m really glad that I’m plus size because I’m a real person, not a skeleton.”

Hoping to bring fashion to a wider cross section of Australians, City Chic general manager Phil Ryan praised the competitors.

“It’s been a pleasure absolute everywhere. The one thing over all states is the girls have just been happy.”