American Apparel Responds After Plus-Size Model Contest Stunt Becomes Popular

In case you haven’t been following the sudden rise to fame of actor/artist/student Nancy Upton‘s spoof on retailer American Apparel‘s plus-sized model contest (called “The Next Big Thing“), we highly recommend catching up quickly, as it keeps getting better. In addition to her own blog, Extra Wiggle Room, Upton herself recaps the whole experience over at The Daily Beast, wherein she details how she was put off on AA’s call for plus-sized women to send in shots of themselves for seemingly no other reason than to promote the brand, she brought in a photographer friend to shoot her gorging herself with food, all in model-like fashion-ish settings.