America's Next Top Model spoiler-topic #2

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Op zondag 10 december 2006 18:21 schreef allure112 het volgende:
Twiggy en een voorkeur voor blank :S

Zij reageerde juist zo geschokt toen ze van Jeada hoorde dat die Spaanse jongen het niet zo had op 'zwarte' meisjes.

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Op zondag 10 december 2006 17:41 schreef wizarddragon het volgende:
Melrose weet gewoon teveel van de fashionscene. En fake-zijn is nou een onderdeel van de modellenwereld. Ingestudeerd hoeft per definitie niet fake te zijn. Melrose heeft dit aspect tot haar eigen gemaakt. Ik denk niet dat ze fake is, het is gewoon HAAR natuurlijke reactie op situaties. Dit komt verder voornamelijk tot uiting als ze staat te janken na een slechte performance, waardoor haar onzekerheid meer naar voren komt. Ze denkt teveel na over haar performance en dat versta ik niet onder fake. Dit alles maakt haar echt een tegenpool van Caridee. Bij Caridee leidt haar spontaniteit en uitgesprokenheid tot goede dingen, maar ook slechte dingen. Ingestudeerd vs. spontaniteit. Al met al is er toch een balans in ANTM.

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Finishing the competition in third place is Eugena, who persevered through weeks of harsh comments from the judges only to be eliminated in the last episode. But she’s not one to dwell on the negative. Instead of the studious, quiet, focused image we saw on the show, the Eugena I spoke with was relaxed, funny, and very well-spoken…dare I say, spokesmodelish, even? In any case, congratulations to Eugena for her successful performance on America’s Next Top Model, and her third place finish.

Hi Eugena, it’s great to speak to you today!
Congratulations on your third place win – it’s not the final prize, but that is a great achievement.
Oh yeah, I know, I’m totally happy with the outcome! Thank you so much.

Is it hard to go nearly all the way and then lose so close to the finish?
No, because my goal was not specifically to win the competition. I just wanted to go as far as I could. Making the top three is a big accomplishment, I understand that. I wasn’t sad at all. I’m free right now, I can work with whoever I want to work with, I can do whatever I want to do, I’m not under contract. There’s always a good side and a bad side. The bad side is that I didn’t win the competition, but the up side is that I have complete freedom over my career, and I can take the different avenues that I want to take, and have control over my career. That’s the good part. I made it to the last episode, and that’s a great thing.

You pulled off the CoverGirl commercial so well – do you consider yourself more suited to acting than modeling?
I can do both. Acting and modeling go hand in hand. You can see that the photo shoots we had to do, they were so out of character, they were so outlandish, you really had to come out of yourself to do them. I don’t think I pulled that off so well, but towards the end, I sort of realized that. You’ve got to just put yourself out there – it’s a job, it’s acting, and you’ve just got to do it. The CoverGirl commercial was basically what modeling is all rolled into one, and that’s why it was an easy thing for me. (laughs) If that makes any sense.

What do you think about your “edit”? It doesn’t seem like we got to know you very well on the show.
Yeah, exactly. I would say that being in those situations, where you’re being stripped of everything that makes you an individual, makes you unique as a person, you turn into someone who is just trying to survive and get through the day. And I think that that’s what I turned into. You know what I’m saying? It didn’t bring out the best in me at all — like all those cat-fights, and being sequestered, and being on camera, it didn’t bring out the best in me at all. I’m not an introvert, I’m not serious all the time. I’m very bubbly and happy and fun, all of those things! In that situation it was just hard for me to adapt to it. When I was in that situation, when I was in the competition, yes it portrayed me accurately because that’s the way I was in the competition. But outside, as a person, me as a whole, no, it didn’t portray me—I didn’t come across as Eugena in real life, you know?

Was there any point where you felt sure you were going to be eliminated?
No. There’s always a chance when you’re in the bottom two, but in my heart, I didn’t see myself going home until the top 3, honestly. And I was going to do whatever I had to do to keep from going home. With Brooke, that was a tough elimination for everybody because nobody wanted to see either of us go. I’m sad that she went, but I’m happy that she went, because I got to stay and make it to the top three. That was one of the times where I really thought I was going to go home, but I didn’t feel it in my heart. I had my doubts about it.

What do you think of Tyra after this experience? What can you tell us about her that we wouldn’t necessarily know from watching her on TV?
Tyra is a smart woman. She’s a hard worker, and she’s a professional. She’s knows what she’s doing; she knows her craft, and she knows it well. That’s what I would say about her. I thank her for the opportunity, and I really didn’t get to know her from the TV show because it was a TV show. Everybody wore their masks. So I can’t say, “Tyra’s mean” or “Tyra’s so nice” because I don’t even know her! But I do know that she’s a smart businesswoman, and she does her job well.

Do you resent her for asking if you want to be a model?
You know what, that made me so upset! At the time, that made me so mad, yes! Yes, I kind of did resent her because to me, it was just like, you and the judges talked so badly to me this whole time. I mean, I got the most criticism out of everybody and I didn’t quit, you know what I’m saying? I kept going, I tried my best after each and every challenge and each and every photo shoot I improved and I improved. And all of the sudden at the end you’re asking me if I even want to be here? And I’m like, “I didn’t sit here and catch hypothermia in this cold freezing pool to not be here!” I went through all that stuff, to not even be here? So it’s like my actions should speak louder than my words, but I guess she wanted to hear me say that, or break down and cry and I was not going to do that. I guess it looked like I didn’t want to, but I really did, and I really tried my hardest, I put my best foot forward every single chance I got. So yes, I resented Tyra for saying that because it was a slap in my face, and I didn’t appreciate it.

Anyway, since the previous cycle had an African American winner, I was wondering if you think it gave the two blonde finalists an edge over you.
The question, wow! I haven’t heard that one yet. Honestly, yeah, I did. I did think so. I mean, I knew it was my time to go after the CoverGirl photo shoot. I knew it was my time to go, I knew I was going to be eliminated. Part of it was because Danielle won before, and congratulations to her, and she’s doing a great job and all that – I’m not trying to take anything away from her. But, you know, you have to have variety. You have to have to be diverse in a situation like this where there’s a lot of viewers. I think that although CariDee and Melrose both deserved to be in the top two, because overall their performance was great all the way through, it still did have some type of influence over it.

Congratulations, Eugena! Thanks to CW for another great season of interviews.

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Finishing the competition in second place was Melrose, who seemed to soar through the competition’s photo shoots and challenges, but who attracted negative attention from her fellow model wannabes. After sticking it out until the bitter end, Melrose had the disappointment of seeing the win go to another competitor. But does she hold a grudge? It sounds like Melrose is well on her way to climbing out of Top Model runner-updom and plunging right back into the fashion world.

Hi Melrose!
Hi, how are you?

Congratulations on finishing in second place!
Thank you so much.

What is it like to go all the way to the end of the competition and just miss the big payoff?
I really have not been seeing it as missing it, because it just wasn’t for me. Everything happens the way it’s supposed to happen; that’s the way I look at life. I don’t feel like I lost, I felt like I showed who I was the whole way through the competition. I competed well, I don’t have issues with any of my photos, I’m happy with all of my pictures – I don’t feel like I didn’t win. All of my family and friends, they’re all like, “You’re the winner for us!” And it feels good, because even if I’m not Tyra’s pick, I’m a lot of other people’s pick.
And all those things that were offered for the win, I’m going to go get them. I feel like I did shine on the show, and I’m not worried about it. It hurt, it was like, “Ow”, but then it was really quick to get back to, “All right, this is me, and I tried my best.” So I don’t really feel like I lost. To look at it like that, makes it easier. But it also makes me realize that all these dreams that I have are still attainable. It’s not like my dreams just got shut down, you know.

Well, that’s true.
It’s not like my life is over. Just because one person has an opinion between CariDee and I doesn’t mean that the fashion industry or that my family and friends, or I agree with it. It’s all a matter of how I feel about myself, and I’m really happy. I’m appreciative of the experience because I worked my butt off and got as far as I could, and I’m satisfied with that. I’m exactly where I want to be right now. That’s good.

So are you going to focus on designing from now on?
I’m going to pursue high fashion modeling. That’s what I want to do. That’s what I love about the industry. I’m not really that interested in doing commercial work – I mean catalog, high fashion, and print work is the best to me. That’s what I live and breathe in fashion, and that’s what I want to do, so that’s my main goal is to continue modeling, because modeling has an expiration date. Then I’m going to design.
I am designing right now for a company called Ishkadada. “Ishka” means “desire” in Sanskrit, and “dada” means “rebel art”. It’s the anti-art art movement, and it’s just an awesome company. It’s [actress] Michelle Rodriguez and my friend, [designer] Dara Young-- it’s their company. I met them a month out of being on the show, and they believed in me, so they brought me into their team to design for their Spring of ’08 women’s line, and that’s what I’ve been working on while I haven’t been able to model. But now that I can finally go model, I’m going to do as much as I can, because that really is my dream. I don’t know how many designers get the opportunities to be models, you know?

Did you want to talk about any specifics from the show? Like what happened with the dress in the final runway challenge?
(laughs) Yeah, knowing how to make clothes, to rip a couture dress is like denting an Aston Martin when it’s still on the lot. It’s like the worst thing you can do, and it’s disrespectful, and it’s just horrible, you know? It was the final competition, to have that happen, it was crazy because the runway for me is empowering, and it’s beautiful, and it’s me and it’s where I feel the most at home, and then to have the worst thing in the world happen at the best place in the world, it was just ironic and sad. It was really hard to deal with, and the competition was so intense at that point, that it just sucked.

Do you think we saw an accurate portrayal of you?
My friends and family would say no, but there is so much more to me that was seen on the show. Especially at the beginning, you know, I am not as big of a bitch as they made me out to be. I definitely have my fierce and vicious side; I definitely stand up for myself, and in the end, I think I came off as the person that I am, which is, you know, happy—I wasn’t very happy at the end—but I do hope that people see that I’m good-hearted, and I’m educated, and I’m a driven woman. And that’s me; that’s what I have to offer the industry. It was really nice to see Jay fighting for me, because in the competition I really did feel like the reason I was there was because I brought a package to the table—I can take good pictures, and I can be a good model, and I can be a good host, and I can do good spokesmodeling for commercials. I feel like I have a package, and it was good to see someone standing up for me; I felt like I was defending myself, and defending myself; I didn’t know who was going to stand up for me at the end, and it was nice to see Jay Manuel be like, this is what we’re asking of these girls, and it was nice to see that the panel was split over the decision, because if they were all just like all about CariDee, I probably just would have freaked out. But they weren’t. I think that they loved both of us for different reasons. It was just nice in the end to see that I wasn’t fighting alone, for myself.

You won so many challenges. Sometimes you wonder about this show—how can someone who wins so many challenges not win if she’s in the final two? And it’s not just the challenges, it’s the photo shoots—you did really well. If they were doing a point system—I don’t understand!
And that whole thing is, it’s not a point system, it’s the Tyra system, you know? That’s the point, and that’s ok, because this is a blessing in disguise for me, because I got everything I wanted out of the show, and I placed exactly where I needed to place, to still be in this industry and still be me, and not be burdened by this at all. So it’s perfect for me.

Do you want to talk about the other girls at all? I just want to give you a chance because so many of them had things to say when they were leaving the show, like Monique, you can imagine, she called you a monster; Anchal said you were fake—those are the two that stand out in my mind.
You know, I have no ill wishes towards anybody in the house, I wish them the best, and success, for everybody. And when people say things like that about other people, it’s because there’s something wrong inside of them. I think Anchal and I had a love-hate relationship, like I loved her, and she hated me. She’s a show-stopper, a head-turner, and she’s a lot stronger than she came off on the show. I never had any issues with Anchal. I just wanted to see her perform to her full potential. And I didn’t think that she was. It was taken the wrong way; I should have said it to her face. I never intended to hurt anybody’s feelings. My intentions were never to hurt anybody. I’m not a monster. I’m a strong beautiful woman, and I’m proud of who I am. I have nothing to be ashamed of, and nothing to hide in this world. I’ve put a lot of work into myself, into my insides, into making me ok with myself. So for someone to call me fake, or this or that, they don’t know me then. They don’t know who I am, and I’m not those things.

Do you have any regrets from the show?
No regrets. I never live with regrets. Everything I did on that show, I did my best at, and if my best wasn’t good enough to win, then that’s ok. I can be satisfied knowing that I tried my 100%, and put myself out there, and did my best. And that’s all you can do in this world.

One other thing—I heard you gave back the clothes from Michelle’s challenge win, and I just thought that that was really nice of you, and I wondered why they didn’t show that.
Well that’s because they were trying to create an image for me that wasn’t good. That’s how they work. I gave Michelle and Amanda whatever they wanted, because it was the twins’ win, you know, Michelle’s win—I gave them their favorite pieces, and I did keep clothes for myself, but I gave everybody who wanted something something. I wasn’t bad. I wasn’t what they made me seem like at the time, but that’s a TV show. No big deal.

Is there anything else you’d like the fans to know about you? Now’s your chance.
That’s it! Just like everybody, just be yourselves, and just be! If you want to know me, try to get to know the real me, not the one you saw on the show. There’s so much more to me than what people have seen.


Many thanks to Melrose – congratulations on your second place finish. Thanks again to CW for the interviews.

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Op dinsdag 12 december 2006 21:35 schreef ellos het volgende:
wel lullig,d at ze dat niet van het kleding teruggeven in de show hebben gedaan, dat had inderdaad een heel ander beeld van haar gegeven.
Ik kan me nl nog herinneren dat ik dacht gedurende die episode: waarom geeft ze niet wat kleding aan de twins?

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Op dinsdag 12 december 2006 22:00 schreef MissBliss het volgende:

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Zat dat in de finale dan?? Niet gezien...

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Op woensdag 13 december 2006 18:47 schreef CrazyDutchPunk het volgende:
In ANTM Cycle 8 gaan de dames en Tyra naar

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