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On last night's America's Next Top Model, the issue of size and body image raised its head (amidst the drama of wondering which pre-model threw out the others' coffee) when the girls were sent out on Go-Sees. Plus-size Whitney faced the same situation that countless other plus-size ANTM contestants have faced before her: most designer sample sizes simply won't fit and designer Pamella Roland tells her straight up that there's no way she'd hire Whitney.

Although really, this begs the question of what Tyra's motive is with the whole insistence that the plus-size girl even has a chance in this competition? If they did, if they were actually on even footing, couldn't more than one plus-size girl be chosen per cycle? I want to believe this isn't a situation of tokenism and I'm not really expecting some kind of magical fairytale world where all different sizes walk the runway, but the job of being a model is "wearing clothes" and the girl actually can't "wear clothes" because of a manufactured situation created by the show's producers. What is the motive?

I would like to think that in the real world, Whitney wouldn't have chosen to see Pamella Roland on her own, knowing that the designer only hired size twos. But in this situation, it was just part of the challenge, and she made the best of it, so go Whitney! As though to make a point, the editors show size zeroFatima being denied for being too thin as well, but then the glorious Stacey Bendet (who has a history of employing the eensy weensy models) tells Fatima that she's perfect. So it's not like it's comparable, because while Shoshanna Lonstein (yeah, Seinfeld's ex) concedes that she would probably hire Whitney, it's not exactly the same reception that Fatima's size zero is getting, you know?