Inside the insane world of plus-size modeling

A week after the call from the assistant, I was sitting in the center of daily operations for this mid-sized agency, which employed up to eight modeling agents. Finally, I was called into the director's office. On a desk in front of me were piles of photos and proof sheets. To my left, shelves displaying the faces of dozens of plus-size models with ruby lips and smoky eyes stared down at me. I wanted my picture up on that wall. In rapid-fire succession, Bobby, the director, detailed my fate as ...