 By the mid-1980s, top plus size models could earn as much as 150,000 to 200,000 dollars a year.Ford Models bought Big Beauties Little Women in 1988, later renaming the division Special Sizes and then Ford 12+.Wilhelmina NYC agent Susan Georget started the "Wilhelmina 10/20" division in New York in 1994, recently re-branded W Curve.