PEOPLE.com reports Tyra Banks is organizing a modeling contest for plus-sized teens. Girls aged 13-19 and between 5′ 9″ and 6′ 1″ in height and sizes 12-20 are eligible to participate in the contest, called “Tyra’s Fiercely Real Teen Model Search.”

Banks, a former model and current host of “America’s Next Top Model,” says she wants to change the “negative connotation” associated with plus-sized women and help the country realize that the average woman is “healthy, fit and beautiful.”

The winner will receive a one-year contract with Wilhelmina, be featured on a magazine cover and be awarded other prizes. Visit tyrashow.warnerbros.com to learn how to enter.

Many Twitter users were shocked to discover that they might be considered “plus-sized” by modeling definitions:

1. 
   stellar_nika plus sized america’s next top model cycle? no thanks…
2. 
   TyrasLilSis yup..DEFINITELY NOT eligible to enter the tyra model search..gotta b plus sized and 5′9 or taller..im barely 5 ft LOL
3. 
   annesmithsc Before we applaud, does plus-sized just mean 125+ lbs? RT @JustJared Tyra Banks Announces Plus-Sized Teen Model Comp. http://bit.ly/broyzC
4. 
   briadadivaa now tyra wanna come out with a top model show for plus sized teens smh i wonder wat this is gonna be like
5. 
   luvinmycurves @tyrashow love the idea of the plus-sized teen model search!! 2
6. 
   tiftweets Just read the “plus-sized” model category begins at…size 6. So at 5′5 and < 120lbs., that means I’m 1 size from plus? Oh, puh-lease.
7. 
   LingLingS615 i find it baffling reg models hav 2 b size <6 & plus size models have 2 b size 12-20 & all have 2 b > 5′9″. so normal sized ppl can’t model?

Last month Banks announced her eponymous talk show would end in spring 2010 so she could turn her attention to other projects.

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