Danielle Brooks has a bone to pick with the new season of America's Next Top Model. The Orange is the New Black star tweeted about her disappointment with the show's lack of plus-size models, calling it "upsetting to watch".
"This 1% thing is real. The world really disregards plus size," Brooks tweeted following the show's Monday return on VH1, questioning why none of the models featured were even a size 6 or an 8, let alone plus-sized. "Even if producers felt... it be hard for a plus size girl, show that [issue]. Let the world see how much work still needs to be done."
Brooks, who earned her first Tony nomination this year for her role in The Color Purple, later continued the discussion at greater length on her Instagram feed.
Although ANTM doesn't have the greatest track record when it comes to representing a diversity of body types, there have been exceptions, notably when Whitney Thompson became the first plus-sized winner in 2008.
"Unfortunately, it didn't happen for this round, but that's alright," supermodel and judge Ashley Graham told E! News. "Hopefully for Season 2—I'm looking for the woman who wins to be plus size. I think it would be so epic."
