Who's Destined to Be a Diva? - 
by J-Unit
So we've finished another season of America's Next Top Model, and Bankable Productions has a fan for life. During this cycle, we had three girls who each represented different parts of the modeling spectrum. Kahlen has a classic beauty with classic proportions and she photographs great, but meeting her in person does not give the same kind of energy. As a spokesperson, Keenyah is your girl. She wows you with her presence, but at the same time sometimes leaves a little to be desired in her pictures. While she isn't fat by everyday standards, her weight and inability to control her appetite is becoming a problem. Naima has edge and flavor and takes good pictures, but her potential is masked by a subdued demeanor that at the same time is begging to get out.
After a little time with a few penguins, the girls get their chances to see Tyra face to face. I don't know about you, but I hardly recognized Ms. Banks. She didn't have any makeup on, or perhaps just not as much, and it wasn't that she was unattractive, just different and something I didn't expect to see. All three get to have some one on one, and the first one to go up is Kahlen.
These sessions with Tyra are always good to see how the girls are feeling, and they really seem to open up in a different way than they do in front of the cameras when they are doing their "diary" recordings. Last time Tyra had her mom along, but this time she was dispensing the advice solo. Kahlen talked about how she was never girly, never tall, and people said she had nothing unique. In this competition she can see that has all changed. Although this time is for the girls, Tyra always takes time to mention how she went through the same thing in some way, the girls cry, and then they move on.
Naima came in next, and when asked what she took away from the experience, she said that she had learned so much about herself. She used to have such issues with her image, hating her face and her body. She says now that she knows she has no room to hate herself. Tyra was impressed that in a competition where there is so much critiquing and so much talk about image, she could come away learning about self-esteem and being proud of what you do.
Then we came to Keenyah. Some people may think that I have been piling it on Keenyah over these last few weeks, but what am I supposed to do? Even when she isn't taking great pictures, she has the diva attitude. I like her spunk, but in this competition, some humility might motivate her to improve herself, and yes, that includes eating well. Keenyah is very focused on the competition, saying that she isn't doing anything that would potentially help others. She does eventually talk about her weight, saying her problem is she doesn't know if she's actually hungry or she just wants to taste something good in her mouth. Well, if all you needed was to put something in your mouth, Keenyah...oh, I'm not going to say it; that was too easy. Tyra tells her that although she should never feel like she has to be unhealthy, she has to realize that at her age, she is going to have to work harder to keep a figure more suited for high fashion.
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