Okay
people, so let’s be honest here – we all love watching the show and
we’re all rooting for our favorites to win but for a moment, let us set
aside our “fantard-ism” and dissect the remaining five models who are
still in the running towards becoming America’s Next Top Model. Let us
analyze who really is the best model amongst the bunch? Who deserved the
$100,000 contract from Covergirl? That contract from one of the top
modeling agency in the world, IMG? And above all, who really deserved
that fashion spread in Vogue Italia and its beauty supplement edition,
Beauty In Vogue?
Let us start with the “model” that we think is the weakest: Kasia
– She’s a plus-size model and she is 26. With that being said, she’s a
bit old for the industry who’s almost always favored the young ones. It
is interesting to note though, that she was already featured in the
fashion magazine V and has worked quite successfully before the show.
It
was also rumored prior to the cycle’s premiere that Kasia was planted
by the producers/ Tyra herself to perhaps win or reach the final 2-3
regardless of her performance on the show and her being friends with
Banks herself. Clearly, her pictures aren’t that spectacular and the
only time that she got the first-call out was the Coffee Commercial
Shoot. Rachel Zoe even called her for being “inexpensive” with Tyra re-iterating it as looking “Cheap.”
We
are not discriminating Kasia for being plus-size or fiercely real as
Tyra put it but let’s be real here, she’s not the best plus-size to ever
be on the show. We have Whitney, the first plus size winner from Cycle
10, Alexandra from Cycle 14 who reached the Final 4 and Tocarra from
Cycle 3 who recently got featured in the Special “Black” Edition of
Vogue Italia in 2008. With this, we are almost sure that she is not
going to win. The industry now even with more leniencies to plus-size
models still prefer to have their Gisele, Karolina, and Naomi as Top Models.
Our fourth placer is the girl from freaking “Houston, Texas” Hannah,
she’s definitely the prettiest left but her being pretty isn’t pulling
enough high fashion to actually win this thing. We also do not think
that her resemblance to Analeigh from Cycle 11 will hindrance her
“chances.”Her walk doesn’t cut it in the runway and she’s also a hit and
miss during photo shoots. This commercial beauty will not be wasted
though, her beautiful physique and face could actually land any beauty
campaigns but other than that, we just don’t see her walking for any
major fashion weeks after the show.
Our 3rd placer is the one we initially thought will win this thing hands down: Molly
Molly’s
a very photogenic model. She’s a chameleon and can take directions
well. With those attributes, you’d think that she’s actually the best in
the competition but America’s Next Top Model is not only your ordinary
modeling competition, this is first and foremost a reality TV show.
Let’s face it, based on the editing- she’s getting along with everyone
of the girls except for Alexandria. During their go-see challenge, she
only booked two out of four clients mainly because she failed to deliver
a personable character and loses a Lana Marks campaign because of her negative demeanor. That’s the problem with Molly, she’s a complaining champion, borrowing this term from last cycle’s runner-up, Chelsey.
Her
bitching and rough confessions are not personable on TV and although a
lot are still rooting for her, she’s losing fans as the show progresses.
Unless she’d get a redemption arc, then it is highly possible for her
to actually win those highly coveted prizes. Goodluck Molly!
Our runner-up analysis goes to the strong, alpha and the lioness Alexandria. This girl has a very interesting personality to begin with. At the start of the show, she was the edited “bitch”
of this cycle. Everyone hated her for being bossy, intimidating and all
and even guests are noticing her not very attractive attitude on set.
However, as the cycle progresses, her editing drastically changed and
she suddenly became the girl to beat in the competition and the girl who
is also the most professional – industry wise.
Whilst
we do not hate Alex because we thought that she has so much personality
and she is such a fun bitch, we honestly don’t think that she’d win
that Beauty In Vogue cover. She has shown consistency with her
photographs and her knowledge of the industry is very commendable but
her editing really reminds us of Melrose from Cycle 7 who end up as the
runner-up. History may just repeat itself.
The girl we think who will be America’s Next Top Model is Brittani. She is the model of today. She’s very current, very high fashion and walks like a supermodel. We hated her for pulling a Celia
moment during episode 7 but we cannot take away the fact that this girl
has everything to win this cycle! We are not particularly fond her of
bitchfest along with Molly over Alexandria but her portfolio is so
strong that we are willing to forget those “reality tv stuffs” that came
out of her Vogue worthy persona. The girl could still make it up with
the judges as we are seeing Franca liking her come episode 10.
So whom do you think and whom do you like to win America’s Next Top Model?
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