Next Top Model Fired For Being "Too Fat"

A winner of Holland's Next Top Model is suing her agency for refusing to give her the full prize money because it says she is ''too fat''.
Ananda Marchildon said she has received only €10,000 of the €75,000 contract she was promised after winning the competition in 2008, aged 21. She was also stripped of her title. The 183-centimetre model claims she was sacked by Elite Model Management two years into a three-year agreement because her hips exceeded the agency's limit of 90 centimetres. The average European woman has 103-centimetre hips.
Dieuwke Levinson-Arps, representing Marchildon, claims her client was told by a lawyer for Elite she was sacked because ''although she has a nice face, she has a fat arse'' and ''she never had it in her to become a top model because she was unsuitable for catwalk work''.
Suing Elite for unfair dismissal, Marchildon wants them to pay the remaining €65,000 she says she was promised. Elite is contesting the claim.
Wikke Kootstra, a lawyer for Elite, said: ''It was impossible for Elite to find [Marchildon] modelling jobs since she wasn't in the required shape.''
Ms Kootstra said in an email: ''Couture clothing is made in one size only: [tres tres] petite. This is not something agencies can change.''
A court judgment is expected next month.