'Too fat' model contest winners to sue for their prize money 
 
 Two winners of popular television show The Netherlands's Next Top Model may take legal action because their promised €75,000 earnings have not materialised, NRC.next reports on Monday. 
 
 The winners of the 2008 and 2009 edition say they have only earned a fraction of what was promised and have now been dumped by their agency - because their hips are larger than 90 cm. 
 
 Ananda Marchildon and Rosalinde Kikstra signed contracts with Modelmasters The Agency, which was set up for the show. The contracts state an 'income of €75,000 is guaranteed' but both women say they have earned around €10,000. 
 
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 Marchildon is now taking legal action against the agency and Elite Model Management which took over their portfolios. Kikstra is considering joining the campaign, the NRC says. 
 
 Emails show the women were sidelined by Elite because their hips were larger than 90cm - despite tough diets and exercise. 
 
 Broadcaster RTL and the show's producer Endemol say the conflict is nothing to do with them. 'Our involvement stops when the winners sign a contract,' a spokesman told the paper. 
 
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– Ananda Marchildon may have been Holland's Next Top Model, but to her former modeling agency she's just a "fat ass": The "almost anorexically skinny" model is suing Elite Model Management after it called her fat, dropped her a year before the end of her three-year contract, and refused to pay $85,000 of the $99,000 she was to receive for winning Holland's Next Top Model in 2008, reports the Telegraph. Elite allegedly dumped Marchildon because her hips were bigger than their max 35.4 inches, but Marchildon says that's just her genetics and she was still super-thin. (The Telegraph notes that the European average is 40.5 inches.) According to her lawyer, a rep for Elite told Marchildon that “although she has a nice face, she has a fat ass” and that “she never had it in her to become a top model because she was unsuitable for catwalk work.” But Elite says Marchildon simply could not get modeling jobs because of her size: "Couture clothing is made in one size only: (très très) petite. This is not something agencies can change," says a lawyer. Rosalinde Kikstra, Holland's Next Top Model's 2009 winner, is considering joining Marchildon's suit, reports Dutch News.