She won the fat lottery so to speak. Thrust into 15 minutes of fame with her only qualification being that she's fat and happened to be in the right place and time to rise to the literal cream of the crop in the new occupation of fatty 'models'. However, like a trailer trash lottery winner, any actual winnings will soon be squandered and she will be back to her old life on the couch scarfing down velveeta and cheeze-its.