The Tyra Banks Show partnered with Aerostaple to give away 100,000 coats for charity this past week in Grand Rapids. The coat drive was organized through the non-profit One Warm Coat, an organization whose mission is to ensure all children have coats to keep them warm through the winter.

Several Top Model alumni came out to help give away the coats, including Toccara Jones, Lauren Utter and Aminat Ayinde. The girls took some time to sign autographs for a few star-struck kids receiving the coats! Tyra didn’t make an appearance, but it’s still a great cause for her to support!

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Whitney Thompson, winner of Cycle 10 of America’s Next Top Model recently participated in the Broadway Bares fundraiser. The event raised money for the AIDS initiative, The Phyllis Newman’s Women’s Health Initiative, The Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic and many more great organizations supported by the Actors Fund.
In the video below, Susan Blackwell from Broadway.com is backstage at the show, interviewing participants about what they’ll be serving up tonight. Whitney shows up at 3:20 and talks about how excited she is to be getting on stage.
Broadway Bares took place on June 21st. Did anyone go see it?

Whitney Thompson, the winner of Cycle 10 of America’s Next Top Model, is participating in the Broadway Cares Strip-a-thon. The event raises money for the AIDS initiative, The Phyllis Newman’s Women’s Health Initiative, The Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic and many more great organizations supported by the Actors Fund.
The Broadway Bares event will take place on June 21st at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City. If you want to see Whitney strip down, you can buy your tickets here.
Here’s a promotional video about the event. It may be NSFW.
Whitney’s goal is to raise $3,000. If you want to support …read more

This week’s Top Model in Action was Cycle 10 top-three finisher Fatima Siad. Fatima was a competitive and controversial contestant while on the show, but took amazing photographs. Since appearing on America’s Next Top Model, Fatima has worked constantly, appearing in Elle, working for Betsey Johnston and walking in several shows in New York Fashion Week.

I love Fatima and am so glad to see she’s getting so much work! She was a great choice for the final Top Model in Action segment.

Last week, we were treated to back-to-back episodes of America’s Next Top Model, which means there were two Top Models in Action.
The second girl of the night was Cycle 10 mom Claire Unabia. Claire has been working steadily since her time on the show, and most prominently has been on the cover of Parenting magazine with her adorable two-year-old daughter.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Claire and love that’s she’s working, but she was a surprising choice for TMIA. There are girls doing work that’s more high fashion and getting work more regularly than her. It makes me wonder …read more

Last night’s Top Model in Action was America’s Next Top Model Cycle 10 winner Whitney Thompson. Whitney has capitalized on being the first plus-sized model to win ANTM and has been working fairly steadily since her win. She’s a Fashion Bug spokesperson and has appeared in campaigns for MetroStyle, JC Penney and more.

I’m not the biggest fan of Whitney but I do believe she can have a long and healthy career as long as she understands her market. Based on the choices she’s made so far, I think she does!

America’s Next Top Model winners Whitney Thompson (Cycle 10) and McKey Sullivan (Cycle 11) stopped by Yahoo Shine the other day to talk about how to get eye makeup that’s Hollywood ready.

Makeup artist Rebecca Restrepo takes the two ANTM alum under her wing and shows them how to get runway ready makeup. It’s essentially a 10-minute infomerical, but it’s always fun to see the kind of work former ANTM winners get.
I can’t embed the video, but you can watch it for yourself here.
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Whitney Thompson, winner of Cycle 10 of America’s Next Top Model made a brief appearance on the MTV show MADE a few weeks ago. The episode, titled “Power Girl” aired on February 21st, showed a young girl named Carrie getting made over into a girly girl. Carrie gets to briefly meet Whitney, and even though she claims she’s a big ANTM fan, she didn’t know who Whitney is!

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It was nice of Whitney to take time to visit this girl for MADE. It’s too bad the available clip is really brief. I wonder what else they talked …read more

Whitney Thompson, winner of Cycle 10 of America’s Next Top Model was one of several guests who attended the unveiling of MCM (Mode Creation Munich) Assouline Campaign Bryant Park. The unveiling took place outside the W Lounge in New York City on February 18.

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Other attendees included Taylor Momsen, Leigh Lezard, Monica, Coco Rocha and more.
MCM is a luxury handbag label that was huge in the 80s. They are now looking to make a comeback with new retro-infused styles, starting with several fabulous launches all over the world, including this one in New York.

Whitney Thompson, winner of Cycle 10 of America’s Next Top Model, attended the LuxuryFashion.com’s “Faces of Fashion Week” party that also doubled as Aubrey O’Day’s 25th birthday party on February 17.
I have no words for this photo. Okay I do. Get a bra. Get a better dye job. Seriously, Whitney. It’s like she’s trying to summon CariDee’s worst red carpet moment ever and topping it. The dress is cute, but it does not fit her at all, and thus, makes her look trashy.

Image: Splash News Online

Earlier the same day, Whitney attended the Baby Phat & KLS Collection Fall 2009 …read more