I Hope She Wins

American Apparel, a brand known for their (sexually charged) ads and the multiple sexually-based scandals featuring its CEO Dov Charney - from firing an employee for not being 'hot' enough, to multiple cases of sexual abuse, to allegedly holding a woman captive and forcing sex upon her - recently started a contest in the hopes to find ''the next booty-ful plus-size model'' or something along those lines, which is a slight departure from their skinny-as-a-nail look.

One applicant is Nancy Upton, who entered the contest with pictures such as these as a means to protest:

What strikes most people who see these pictures is the fact that as a size 12, she's not ''overly plus-size'' - most stores carry ''regular'' sizes up to 16 - and that she's on the 'hot' side.

While Jezebel reported the story, in the comments section of the article lies a debate about what actually makes one plus-size, something that happens just about every year and that we should get to the bottom of, eventually.