(Big) Girls Who Run the World!

KATE UPTON

Not only is this girl ballsy AF in her barely-there ’kinis, she’s also the male fantasy in human form. Kate isn’t just unabashedly sexy (hello? Sports Illustrated model alert?) she’s also been in big moneymakers like The Other Woman, and the upcoming The Layover. She’s never even been typecast—and was named the Sexiest Woman in 2014 by People mag!

MINDY KALING

Not only has Vera Mindy Chokalingam (yes, indeed! We get why she pared it down now) risen from being a supporting actor on The Office (and a series of rom coms) to getting her own super-successful sitcom, The Mindy Project—she’s also written two brilliant books and has a Twitter following of 7.74 mil followers!

REBEL WILSON

Her breakout character in Pitch Perfect (the riotously funny Fat Amy) put her on the world’s radar, and since then, she’s bagged roles in the biggies—Bridesmaids, How To Be Single, even the lead in the upcoming gender-reversed Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. She’s also lent her voice for the Ice Age: Continental Drift video game!

DENISE BIDOT

The Size 14 model isn’t just a path-breaker because she’s, um, gorgeous. She was also the first plus-size model to walk the ramp at NYFW for two straight-size brand (CHROMAT and Serena Williams’ HSN fashion line), had her fab life profiled by HBO and chose to go unretouched in her Swimsuits For All campaign.

MELISSA McCARTHY

Who would’ve guessed sweet little Sookie from Gilmore Girls would be such a baller! From getting her own sitcom (Mike & Molly) to landing protaganist parts in blockbusters like The Heat, The Boss, and the all-girl reboot of Ghostbusters, she’s done it all. Oh, and did we mention she has her own fashion line, Melissa McCarthy Seven7, for plus-size women?

ADELE

With a whopping 16.8 mil followers on Insta, this girl’s vocal chops have been giving everyone the feels since her first album, 19, started her Grammy-winning streak. Since then, she’s won another
nine (!)—not to mention recorded a Bond song (Skyfall), broken the Billboard record for the longest #1 album by a woman, and got her own wax statue at Madame Tussaud’s!