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Saturday, October 30, 2010
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Tagged: andre, eat, Esther, H2T, happy halloween, jay, models, poor kayla, recap, roller skates, skinny, TV, tvgasm america's next top model, tyra, z spoke, zac posen
Happy Halloween, Gasmii! P-Baby here, ready to get this recap started as Mr. P-Baby and I have many Halloween festivities to tend to this weekend which may or may not include costume karaoke, handing out candy to snotty trick or treaters and horror movie marathons. It may be the best Halloween ever, excluding the year I went dressed as Tom Cruise circa Risky Business. I got a lot of candy that year.
This week, we open at the house where Liz won’t shut the fuck up about winning first call out at judge’s panel. Let’s keep things in perspective, Lizzie. First call out last week basically means you sucked the least whilst you were dressed as a stringy haired magician that puts the lotion on its skin that also coincidentally resembles John Galliano. Need a reminder?
Liz is super pumped and tells Ann she finally knows how she feels. No you don’t, Liz. Ann won first call out five weeks in a row. You won once. That’s like me saying I know how Reese Witherspoon felt dating Jake Gyllenhaal for two years after I happen to walk by him on the street. PS. Speaking of Jake Gyllenhaal, Taylor Swift better watch her scrawny “I write about how miserable my love life is and how I hate high school boys even though I’m 20 and have never experienced anything even remotely difficult” back.
My girl Marble Mouth Esther is going to work on putting herself out there more in order to display her personality since she was in the bottom two last week. This means Esther is definitely going home. If only Esther had sat there and said, “Fuck Tyra, I don’t give a rat’s ass about what she says. I’m going to suck ten times harder this week and enunciate my words even less,” then she probably would have had a fighting shot at sticking around.
I guess it is the next day and Miss J has forced her way into the model house, dragging along cute patootie Zac Posen with him to inform the models they will be participating in a fashion show modeling Zac’s new line called Z Spoke. Confession time, Gasmii. I thought they were saying Sea Spoke and believed the models would be wearing nautical inspired clothes to include conch shells and seahorses until I saw the name written out as Z Spoke. While as a rule I love Zac Posen’s designs, this episode would have been so much better if the models had been forced to wear mermaid tails and navigate a runway full of pinching Sebastian crabs.
The girls will be walking the runway along side professional models and Ann says what the rest of us are thinking that she’s unsure if she’s ready to walk on the runway. Actually, the rest of us are wondering how Ann walks down her driveway to the mailbox everyday without falling over, let alone walk a runway in front of fashion industry types scrutinizing her every stomp.
Zac sits with Miss J and the models and they get to have a question and answer session with him. They ask boring, relevant questions about the types of models and model walks he likes, etc while I really want to know the dirt on the celebrities he dresses, what his favorite movies are, and if he’ll be my friend on Facebook.
I’m really growing tired of this show trying so hard to be credible. Seriously, Tyra. The cat’s out of the bag that you are bat shit crazy. Faking sanity after 14 cycles of madness is not going to make us forget.
The next day the girls arrive at the fashion show and are greeted by Miss J and Zac again. Miss J announces that the winner of the challenge will receive five looks for Zac’s Z (Sea) Spoke line, which is a decent prize. Not as cool as going to the Grammys, but a nice way to pad your wardrobe for fall. The professional models also in the show come out but only after being secretly instructed by Miss J to be bitches to the ANTM girls as a way to emulate what real fashion shows can be like. YES. Finally this show is getting interesting. I’d bet my left tit that Miss J could have said absolutely nothing to the pros and they would have acted exactly the same. And my left one is the big one.
The ANTM models practice walking while dressed in Zac’s clothes as he is really into how his models walk as well as how they look. The pros win my snarky heart by providing snide comments during this practice session because they basically get to say out loud everything I’m thinking with no repercussions. What sucks is that none of the ANTM wet blankets say anything back to the pros, making me wish for the likes of Jade, Kenyah, and even a little Lexie or Kacey action to stand up and cause a bitchy scene. Finally, the show starts and Jane is the first one out of the chute. Jane is gorgeous, you guys. She really has a great face. If only she didn’t look like a such a hot mess walking.
Jane’s saving grace for her abysmal walk is Esther is up right after her and gallops like a top heavy clydesdale down the runway. I don’t know if Esther’s jugs make her off balance or maybe she just has an odd walk in general but regardless the reason, it’s not good. To make it even worse, she spins like a little girl in her Sunday church dress before continuing on down the runway. Or temple dress. You know, because she’s Jewish.
Liz walks next after being told she’s not ready by one of the pros. To her credit, she doesn’t let it get to her and walks pretty well. This whole set up of the outdoor fashion show and Liz’s outfit totally makes me want to watch Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead.
I LOVE the ending of that movie. Well, I love the movie in its entirety but the ending where the 90′s have upchucked all over Christina Applegate’s conveniently fashion modely friends and they put on the coolest fashion show ever by the pool is the best.
Not to mention, the eye candy. Though this may be the first and only time in history someone wearing this costume was called eye candy.
Kayla walks after Liz and Kayla’s legs look super short this episode. Has she always had nubbins for legs?
One of the models sufficiently freaks Ann out by telling her there are a lot of people out there right before her walk. What the hell did Ann think was going on at this thing? Also, BTW Ann, you are on a TV show. I don’t know what the ratings are like but it’s got to be more than five.
Ann walks out onto the runway stinks it up like the P-Baby house after Fajita and Frijoles Friday. She’s not a newborn, right? She has had this frame and those legs presumably since birth so surely she should know how to walk without tripping all over her feet.
Chris and Chelsey walk without incident, with Chelsey catching Zac’s eye as performing particularly well. Chris is seriously growing on me. She’s likable, relatable, commercial, and has a good personality. And with those comments, I am now overqualified to sit on the ANTM judge’s panel.
The show comes to an end and Miss J gathers the girls backstage to inform them that the professional models had been put up to their mean girl ways by him. It’s all hugs and laughs and Chelsey is announced as the challenge winner. No hair pulling or cat fights broke out and I’m back to snooze mode.
The next morning or whatever the fuck day it is, Jay and Nigel pop in on the girls during breakfast which is 1. Creepy and 2. Awfully convenient that none of the girls are caught in their granny panties with birds nest hair and a coffee mustache. Seriously, what the hell is going on with Nigel? Has he always been this pervy or am I just noticing it now that my “Nigel’s so hot” blinders were removed by Francesco Carrozzini last week?
Nigel and Jay are here to shoot the girls in their first commercial where they will be selling H2T beauty and energy water. And thank all that is holy this is a fake drink because it sounds too much like H Titty. Nigel will be directing this fake commercial on location right outside the girls’ house. The whole thing reeks of budget costs as there is no real product and no famous photographer or stylist present either. Lame.
Nigel drops the bombshell that for the commercial the ladies will be on roller skates and kissing boys. Kayla is particularly offended by the boy part of the equation because…in unison now…she’s a giant, raging lesbian. So being the snarky, disgruntled recapper that I am, my initial instinct is to tell Kayla to shut the hell up and get over it because it wouldn’t be the first time in life that a lesbian kissed a dude. Except this time, Kayla cements my place in hell as she reveals that her issues with kissing men stems from sexual assault that occurred for a year when she was 11. Damn it, Kayla. I can’t make fun of that.
After seeing Kayla visibly distraught, Jay drags her aside and Kayla reveals her sexual assault secret. Apparently not even her mom knows which is going to be a bit of a bombshell to say the least when she watches this episode. I guess sharing all your deepest emotionally scarring secrets on a B-List reality show is the way to go these days.
Kayla’s commercial is shot first and after stumbling over some of her lines, she manages to get through it. It’s actually kind of hard to watch how uncomfortable she is at the end with the male model but she gets finishes and I like her a little more for it.
Liz isn’t nervous because she memorized her lines completely though I equate it to when you study for a final half-assedly, think you’ve got it under control, and realize you are fucked upon reading the first question of the test. Liz forgets everything, laughing her way through the commercial. Nigel is pissed and his flared nostrils tell me so.
Esther’s commercial is next and good old Marble Mouth not only sucks at roller skating, she sucks at having any sort of personality. I blame H2T.
Jane may have gone to Princeton on a lacrosse scholarship but her athletic prowess does not translate onto roller skates. Other than that, her commercial is decent.
Chelsey gets approximately 3 seconds of air time for her commercial segment so I have no comments. Her tattoo of the bird on her back is cute though.
Chris rolls around on her skates like she’s been skating herself to the mall for years. She also delivers her lines smoothly which means that Chris is going to win this challenge as the only other model to go is Ann and bitch can’t walk even when wheels aren’t strapped to her feet.
As suspected, Ann sucks so incredibly bad at delivering the lines, the skates, the commercial in general. I also think it is lame that Ann keeps blaming all her issues on being tall. Other tall women have plenty of control over their extremities. Lisa Leslie, those beach volleyball chicks, that tall school minster broad that dates Hagrid. Ann needs to stop making excuses and gain some semblance of control over her limbs. Nigel asks her if she’d be more comfortable in pads though I hear this as pants and my inner Michael Scott zings a That’s What She Said towards the screen. Every time Ann falls, a Chinese baby is born, which is why there are like 9 billion of them now.
Ahh, Banks is nigh. Wearing her Dallas hair, spackle paint face, a mint green one shoulder dress and varicose vein hiding stockings, she is quite the vision. She rambles for awhile about some magazine, a bunch of prizes, introduces Zac as the guest judge and finally we get to the pictures.
Jane is called up first and her commercial turned out pretty good. Nothing to write home about but her personality was almost there and the camera really loves her face.
Liz is up next and after we watch her attempt at a commercial, she breaks down in front of the panel due to some Tyra prodding. She says everything she does is to provide for her daughter and Tyra tells her to use that next time as inspiration so she doesn’t fucking blow it.
Chris’s commercial is by far the best and is commended by the panel for her delivery. Tyra rightfully tells her she a little on the cheesy side but cheesy is ok sometimes. Just ask Kraft.
Ann’s commercial is terrible and I actually just fast forwarded it because it is too painful to watch again. So instead, let’s look at this.
Kayla’s commercial is ok considering she is going through some serious Oprah shit during the whole thing. Zac tells her to love humanity. I love Zac.
Chelsey’s is OK if a little stiff………that’s what she said. I’m sorry. I can’t help it sometimes.
Esther’s commercial bad. I don’t think we need to relive that one again either so instead, here she is at judge’s panel looking super cute. Poor Esther. Too little too late.
After some fake deliberation because it is painfully obvious who is going to win and who’s going home, Chris gets first call out. Ann and Esther end up in the bottom two but we call this a red herring because we all know BFG Ann is sticking around until at least the finals. So Esther is off to eat her kosher food and Ann lives to see another day. Well Gasmii, that’s all she wrote. Hope you all have a happy Halloween with lots of candy eating and slutty costume wearing. See you next week!
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Excellent recap, ranks up there with the best! I really enjoy all the personal details and I feel like I’m really getting to know you (and your tits).
So now I’m wondering if Kayla is a lesbian because she was born that way, or only because was raped…
Esther was a real disappointment, but I’m guessing she comes from a very sheltered environment, and that explains the awkardness and mumble-mouthedness.
I still think Jane will win. Should win.
itchy…I thought the same thing about Kayla. She was raped during her formative years…never told anyone…never got any kind of help. For her, it’s easier to be with women to overcome her fear and pain.
Holy cow, some of these women are so incredibly clumsy and awkward. How do they think they can be runway models when they can’t walk? Esther and Ann both looked like cartoons.
I think all of these contestants should get the boot and the season should start over with some decent contestants.
I think Tyra’s been tamping down the crazy so much this season that she staged this ridiculous commercial with the fake water and the roller skates just to mess with the girls, because she’s had to fake class for so long.
And Zac Posen literally sighed at the end of Jane’s commercial. Personality or not, making the employer sigh is probably a better sign of potential then being able to make him laugh. He also was thrilled at how beautiful she looked in his clothes. Plus, Kate Moss could barely string three words together even before the coke and I once read Shalom Harlow and Amber Valletta referred to as “mouthbreathers” so lighting up a room with your wit is less important than lighting it up with your pretty.
Chris has charm, but I think she’d be better hosting a show than being a model. Restart “House of Style” on MTV and she’d be a great host because she looks really cute when she’s all dressed up and styled and if she can calibrate the cheese to about a seven, she can be a star. But she’s not a model. At least not a versatile one, and certainly not a “high fashion” one. Which is good. Editorial and runway pay crap, anyway.
Damn you Esther for being a nice and boring girl. If you had brought a little bit of drama in the house, they would have gotten rid of Liz, who from now on I will refer to as “that bitch”.
In a perfect world, Jane would win this thing. The girl is gorgeous and the only thing she needs to improve is her runway walk. But if there is one thing that Tyra hates more than pageant girls, it is ivy league girls.
And if it was any other cycle, Chris would probably win but unfortunately for her it is the high fashion cycle.
I think that Tyra will give the crown to Kayla, who besides being liked by the judges and having a decent portfolio, has now not one, not two but three backstories, two of them dramatic.
It’s a pity because the thing that girl needs right now is therapy, not a modeling contract.
And I can’t believe Tyra did not make a big announcement of the girls going to Italy. No Tyra yelling “You’re going to Milan” in the worst fake italian accent ever ? No Andre Leon Talley swirling around draped in the Italian flag ? No Miss Jay dressed in a pizza costume with a bowl of pasta as a hat ? I FEEL ROBBED !
ty for the recap
after the runway show and watching jane, i think jane has the most potential. she does need runaway lessons though.
i just wonder, season after season, you would think these “aspiring” models know how to walk! OMG i watch alot of runway shows and if you told me “brazilian stomp” id do that strut, and if you “vacant zombie” i can do that walk too, its not that hard.
as for Ann, she is kinda like the “heather” of this season. Tyra’s pet, blah blah high fashion etc. yeah yeah ann looks good on photos but on the runway she is WAAAY to thin to fit sample clothes and she look like a boat sail.
and the reason why i said Ann is tyra’s pet project is because of her low self esteem. i do feel like slapping her and telling her to snap the fk out of it because the world isnt fking fairy floss and candy and will never be, especially the modelling world, toughen up bitch.
and that commercial was sooo low brow it wasnt funny, H2T water, hello its tyra’s “head to toe” thing.
and since when does nigel shoot commercials? i guess since all the “real” photographers showed up and his not really a “noted” fashion photographer, just like how tyra thinks she is a photographer too. bitch puhlease.
and zac posen is soooooooooooooooooo short lol, like he is like a pocket gay. totally, u can take him anywhere in your pocket.
and he has lost weight too, he used to have a rounder face. but watevs, love the clothes, very cute. if i was a girl id wear it.
and esther couldnt last long, the boobs are too big for high fashion.
chris i like her, but she wont win.
kayla, needs help, it was just uncomfortable for me to watch that bit of the episode during the kiss, call me crazy, but i look at her eyes and i saw the fear and yeh i think she needs therapy. and i cant be mean to her this week. but why do people chose a show like this to blurt out hidden secrets?! omg!!
liz has just become sooooooo annoying, i dont know whether it is editing, but i know people who are like her, she is like one of the people who feel the world has done them injustice and all this fake confidence screw the world attitude and then they crack and do a big booh hooo cry cry and roll out their i had a child when i was homeless, food stamps, 6 jobs a day story.
deep inside, its almost as if she blames her daughter for her all crap.
oh i dont know fashion designers because i have a daughter and 6 jobs.
oh lets talk about secrets, “yeh i wanted to die because i was homeless and pregnant and nobody wanted me”
oh i havent had much practise as a model “because i have a daughter, food stamps and 6 jobs”
why doesnt she just make up business cards with that sentence and hand it out.
and take that freaking eye brow ring out, its not edgy.
anyway, i miss the old ty ty red hair, boob tube, yelling at skinny girls for laughing during elimination.
that is CLASSIC!!! love it, im glad you brought it up lol.
now ty ty is all classy, with vagina armpits in one shoulder dress with fat gay in window curtain by her side.
anyway off topic, i was in new york months ago and walk right past fatima, she looks amazing and has flawless skin. i didnt stop her and gush lol. im from australia. but then again i saw other celebs too and i was like MEH bitch watever.
btw i dont live in the usa.
so i dont know if covergirl uses the girls at all.
do they use the girls at all when they win “$100k contract”?? because i dont see the ads in magazines i buy from usa.
and like the other winners, teyona etc i never actually saw anything.
whats the point of winning a beauty contract when they dont feature you in any campaigns and they keep using drew barrymore.
it leads me to think south africa’s next top model has better prizes, at least they get a 6 month contract with louis vuitton.
sorry i meant Africa’s next top model.
@loopygorilla, it sounds like South Africa’s Top Model does have a better prize. These girls usually show up in Cover Girl commercials during the following season’s ANTM, if then. I think the Cover Girl contract is one of the issues that keeps them from picking the most modelesque girls, because CG models have a more commercial look and have to be able to speak.
To me, Jane and Chelsey are the front-runners now, with Liz in the middle somewhere. I KNEW Ann was going to blow it on the runway, and I don’t think that can be transcended. She needs to work on her facial expressions, too; she always looks worried. Chris is adorable but very commercial-looking. The others are somewhere in the middle; Kayla may get a boost from having a trauma to overcome.
Poor little Esther got eliminated not only because of her being nice and boring, but because she can’t walk and can’t talk. They are going to tweak the challenges so that Ann can slide through to the finals, but as soon as they have to walk again, she’s gone.
Fatima did a spread in a top fashion mag within the past year, so she’s a success. BEN (Bloody Eyeball Nicole) is also making it big in print ads, for Marc Jacobs or somebody like that. I think she’s the only winner who has ever been heard from again.
“she’s the only one winner who has ever been heard from again”– for modeling, I mean. Not for marrying a TV actor.
Yaya, who was the runner-up to Eva Pigford, has had a pretty good career as a film actress. Eva has also done fairly well as an actress.
Toccara has had success as a tv show host and I’ve seen her in catalogs. Bre is in a Garnier commercial. (Nicole, winner from her season..is she anywhere/doing anything?) Yaya and Eva have had the most success of all contestants in all seasons. And Eva was engaged to a major hottie so Eva FTW!
i keep looking at the crop of girls they chose and most seasons they pick the most non-modelesque girls.
i mean yes they were pretty etc and the pictures turned out good but they were models.
it kinda make it look like USA/Canada doesnt have any model girls and we have to go to russia or some eastern european country. but thats not true, you watch fashion tv and there are lots of north american girls working as top model and one of them is jessica stam, who was grew up at a farm.
anyway, if they are gonna go vogue italia and IMG, they should tweak the prizes too. being a face at walmart and covergirl is not exactly going to send careers skyrocketing.
with andre’s connections, you would think, they can make a new prize “the winner of top model will introduced to designers like prada, burberry, valentino, marc jacobs etc and have a chance to walk in their shows” or something like that.
lets face it, girls on the runway get noticed. because its like wild fire, once a girl does 1 show, she ends up doing 10 shows – then comes the campaigns etc.
maybe be the face of sepphora, which BTW is AMAZING in new york! omg if i was a girl and wore make up, id wanna live in sepphora, THINGS ARE SOO CHEAP! sepphora products sell for 3x as much in australia.
anyway, im just thinking they should tweak the prizes.. i mean you cant be “high fashion” and do walmart/covergirl.
I think the reason they usually end up with the least modelesque girl as the winner is because they want a commercial-looking girl for Cover Girl, and they want more of a personality or “spokesmodel” to do the commercials. If they just had challenges that involved photographs and runway work, they’d get better girls.
Not that they don’t get some great girls, they just aren’t high fashion models. I don’t know who they could get to sponsor the show to get a more fashion-y girl, because most high fashion types don’t do TV advertising, and don’t want to advertise to the mass market.
Some years they have had a fantastic girl in the final two or three, but I just knew she couldn’t win because I couldn’t picture her hawking Cover Girl.
Another reason they don’t get high fashion models is because so many of them are 13-17 years old, and Tyra goes with 18 and older.
Plus, Tyra likes that most of the ‘models’ she selects resemble her viewers. I’m sure it adds to her viewership when girls can root for more relatable people from small towns like themselves. if they can be transformed into a model, why can’t I?
It’s also why Tyra gets people from several towns/cities across the country. People love rooting for girls from their hometowns!
I find it quite ironic that 2 out of the 3 sucessful girls after the show are girls who turned down modeling completly and went acting instead. The only one who made it in the modeling world was elyse from cycle 1 and she had to move from the united states because the connection with the show was hurting her career.
I know Adrienne did pretty well and Yoanna is somewhat big over in Europe. To me, she is the one who fits high fashion more than any of the other girls from this season.
A fair number of them are working as models though not in high profile jobs, and Danielle did get her Cover Girl contract renewed beyond what was part of the winner’s prize. And I’ve been seeing Eugena a lot in her Olay ad. And Katarzyna and Anya, who lost to Whitney (????) have been working constantly.
But what usually makes a model a “supermodel” is a commercial contract or Sports Illustrated, so this whole high fashion/commercial divide is off base, anyway. And if anyone should know that it’s Tyra since her biggest claims to fame are her work in Sports Illustrated and Victoria’s Secret. Not exactly being Yohji Yamamoto’s or John Galliano’s muse.
As for most high fashion, despite her height, knowledge and flawless face Yoanna was not built like a model and never seemed to grasp that. She has a boxy build and wide hips. Some things can be camouflaged but no amount of weight loss was going to give her the stretched out proportions of Shandi. Even Mercedes had better proportions than Yoanna. Which is why she did better on TV after the show than as a model. Until she totally screwed up her looks by overtanning and blonding herself.
But that’s part and parcel with this show. Tyra’s worked as a model but she’s never been an agent or a client so she’s working mostly from her very narrow point of view. It always cracks me up when a guest judge comes along who doesn’t know the script and praises a girl who is getting the dreaded “no personality” edit, like Posen was with Jane. They just pretend that all the sighing and praise means nothing because no one would book her because she’s dull. I’ve watched enough model castings on PR and in documentaries to know they don’t even normally talk to the models. Just look at the book and the walk.
Well if the go-sees we’ve seen in every cycle are any indication, you are right. The designers generally only look at the book and ask the girls to wear one of their designs and walk. No chit chat, just business.
If the girl fit in the sample size, is photogenic and has a decent walk (and does not say or do something utterly stupid) she gets booked.
If not, how could you explain that Angelea booked 6 out of 6 jobs last cycle ?
Whitney winning was the biggest travesty of this series, and I think it sort of shaped up Tyra. She actually had some high fashion girls that season and passed over them for Whitney, who was a bitch and had a poorly proportioned body. Tyra has had much better plus-size models than Whitney.
Anya, Katarzyna, and Fatima were three of the best models they’ve ever had on the show.
@vallegirl: There have been supermodels that got that way by doing runway and magazine work, rather than Sports Illustrated and commercials. Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, and Christy Turlington come to mind. Maybe Linda Evangelista, too. They all started doing commercial work after they became supermodels, I believe. It’s harder to go that route now, though, because so much magazine work goes to actresses rather than models.
Tyra was a runway model for some of the top designers in Europe when she was starting out. Then she gained weight and got big boobs and went the Sports Illustrated/Victoria’s Secret route.
Yoanna had the most gorgeous face, like Audrey Hepburn. She has done quite a bit of print work and some commercials, I believe.
I hope Zac Posen helps Jane make it in the business. He was so enamored of her, maybe she can be his muse. (I know he is gay; I mean enamored of her look.)
I didn’t mean commercial as in TV spots. But a commercial contract is just a model signed to advertise a brand and both Claudia Schiffer (Guess) and Kate Moss (Calvin Klein) made their names from their commercial contracts more than any other work they did. From the mid 80s through the 90s models became famous but few managed to become names without some kind of commercial visibility. Runway/editorial doesn’t really make a model a name anywhere but in the industry.
That’s why I think the “commercial” dig is so ridiculous, and Tyra knows it. Every model wants to have commercial appeal because there’s way more money being the face of a brand than being in editorials. Jane probably has the best chance of working in both milieus because not only Posen but Patrick Demarchelier thought she was absolutely beautiful. So if a major designer and photographer think she’s aces, she’ll probably be able to start working as soon as she can.
yeah i tottally forgot that tyra’s claim to fame is sports illustrated and VS. so she can hardly call herself high fashion.
that is why there was always that bitter rivalry with that bitch naomi campbell because campbell (even though is a major bitch) was more successful in the “fashion” sense than tyra, whereas tyra was more “glamour” model with sports illustrated than fashion.
tyra will always have a complex since she can never be a campbell, or alek wek or iman — who were all high fashion and succesful models.
anyway i saw fatima in the max azria campaign and eugena is one of the models for clinique’s dark spots remover products.
and this personality stuff is bull crap, as proven by zac posen who loved jane.
lets face it, companies dont use models as spokes people, they use celebreties because they are more familiar.
anyway jane/chelsea have the most potential, so did kendall, who just needed more direction.
ann is way way way tooo thin even for model standards and the zac posen’s clothes look like boat sails on her, and they are sample size which i understand is like size 6 in australia and size 0 in usa.
we had a few girls in australia’s next top model who were WAY to skinny also and during the go-sees and fashion shows, the designers struggled to make the clothes fit.
and at the end of the day, models are just breathing and living mannequins (no need for personality), so they all need to be around sample size and i think kayla, jane, kendall, chelsea look sample size.
Tyra did have a high fashion career, but, yeah, it was overwhelmed by her Sports Illustrated/VS years.
Naomi Campbell and Iman are examples of supermodels who stayed in high fashion. Naomi is pure crazy and sounds like she has a mouth full of marbles when she talks, and Iman is just too classy to do that glamour stuff.
Remember Katarzyna, who had a great look, and who was dinged for being “too sexy”? She could have been a Sports Illustrated/VS girl (still can). I could never figure why she was criticized for sexiness, when Whitney was just a pure slut whose idea of walking the runway was to shake her hips like a hoochie dancer.
lol pixie… whitney called that her “curvy” walk. whitney just had her mouth open all the time like she was catching flies lol.
its always thats “oh my gosh is that for me?” gushing mouth open, pageanty look.
kata is working alot in europe but she is under the radar because she does alot of runway work.
Wow Chris–GF nailed it!!! And good for her. I do feel for poor Ann, it’s just not that easy to get out of your own way sometimes, and she is one huge blockage! That look of abject horror–HOT!!! Kidding. Not sure what it would take, but she’s nursing some wounds there that shouldn’t still be getting to her. If she could laugh at herself a little, it could help!
Well, Itchy, you asked . . . I happen to be gay, and I was also sexually abused, but from a much earlier age. Much is argued about the influence abuse has on sexual preference. I do think I would have been gay either way, but I’m one of those gays who’s okay with women, and I don’t have any girl part phobia’s, I’ve been there, done that and worn the T.
Some men close to me, with similar experiences, who identify as straight, can seem a bit more vulnerable to stuff on the down low without actually being gay. And that can range from just interest to acting out. It can also be a major source of homophobia–so hateful are they of those dark desires that they externalize it, and beat it, but no amount of violence is going to remove what’s inside. (Picture Chris Cooper in the rain from American Beauty)
I would guess that Kayla was already gay when those things happened, making her hate men all the more, but I can only guess.
Anyhoo, the easiest way for me to deal with any of these questions is to say, well Itchy, If you were a boy and got raped by a woman, would you have decided that you only like men . . . see what I mean. Preference is so hard to relate to when it’s not your own, so I always suggest flipping the world and imagining what it would be like if gays were the norm and straights weren’t legally equal (and pretend, for the sake of it, that the bible agreed) It really feels like the only way to make the point that you are, in fact, born that way. And I know there are some bi people who may go one way, than another, etc. I think it’s all more fluid than we suppose.
Xouille, actually I think the personality had a lot to do with Angelea getting booked 6 times. A few mentioned she’d be fun to have around. When a parade of coat hangers march your way, and they all look the part and walk the part, I would imagine who you like would be a plus.
I do think Jane is rising, and Chris too. Liz, maybe. Chels and Kayla seem to be moving along, and Ann is dropping. Ann could use some therapy, one of the easiest things to accomplish in therapy, or whatever kind of self help, is to re-evaluate those voices of criticism in your head. They will have hold on you till you get a chance to sort them out, then they may have moments, but are easier to cope with and dismiss–of this, I can be sure. ; )
They used to show, “Models of the Runway” with updates on some of the contestants–maybe they are on youtube, but it seemed a handful of girls had been working. There are no more super models. Maybe it’s the actress’ stepping in, maybe it’s the amount of models today, but to be a name model in the likes of Linda Evangelista is nearly impossible. Maybe Nicki Taylor and Kathy Ireland were that last of those . . . anyone!?
Oh, don’t get me wrong, judd, for me it’s pretty well-established that people are born homosexual, or not. Although I can see that under some circumstances one’s sexual orientation can be influenced by environment and/or trauma. It’s pretty clear that that there’s a large population of heavily religious types who spend their lifetime repressing their sexual orientation. At the same time, I can see where a girl who’s been sexually abused right about the time Kayla was would develop an aversion for all things masculine. But sure, it’s just as likely that she was already lesbian, which made the abuse all the more traumatic for her.
At any rate, I don’t watch reality tv to feel compassion for these people, so I’m hoping she (and Liz) get kicked off pretty quickly. Not that I feel all that much compassion for Liz and that stupid piercing of hers.
Which was another thing about the commercial shoot — it seems that half of these girls are already tatooed? Doesn’t that get in the way of modeling? If I were a designer, I’d be pissed off having to work with tatted up models.
Tattoo’s – I think they just make them up to cover them. I don’t watch DWTS, but I saw the first week or so, and Margret Cho has sleeves they covered in makeup for dancing night!
I agree that if I was going to be a model, weeee, I would not get a tat . . . some jobs infringe on personal freedom . . . but it’s a living.
Also wish Kayla the best going forward–it’s a lot for some families to absorb/believe . . . sadly since statistically it’s so frickin’ common! Esp for girls–I think it’s 4 out of 5 by the age of 18 . . . very sad indeed.
What is your avatar, itchy–you in costume, or John Wayne Gacy art!?
@Juddfan: I agree with you that sexuality can be quite fluid. For instance, boys (and girls) in boarding schools, and men in prisons and the military often get involved in same-sex relationships. Some stick with it, so to speak, while others go back to being straight or bisexual.
I have known several young women who suffered sexual abuse or just plain bad relationships with men, and “turned” lesbian. Whether they were always lesbian, or bi, or they actually changed, I don’t know. One friend was molested by her brother when she was a child and lived as a heterosexual through college; her relationships were more platonic. Another had several unfortunate relationships with men, and she did say she always had felt attracted to women.
Female strippers and prostitutes sometimes get involved in same-sex relationships, I think because they feel safer and less degraded with women.
It is also interesting to note that in some ancient cultures (the Spartans, the Persians, the Athenians), male homosexuality/bisexuality was the norm and not the exception.
I did a little research, and it seems that quite a few ANTM alumni have gone on to have modeling careers. Fatima had an editorial spread in Marie Claire’s July 2010 issue, and has done a lot of advertising work and some runway. Some others who have had some success include Lauren Brie, Naduah, Lisa Ramos (Season 13), Leslie (Season 6), Eugena, Marvita, Jaslene (who won her season), Gabrielle Michelle, Nicole Fox (winner of the shortie season), Katarzyna, Anya, and Fo.
Analeigh Tipton has given up modeling and is pursuing an acting career. She has a small role in the upcoming “Green Hornet” movie with Seth Rogen.
hi all
i wonder if you guys and gals have watched Cleveland’s Next Top Model on youtube.
that show is AMAZING!!