America's Next Top Model Cycle 9 : "The Future Of Fashion" [Starts Sept. 19th]

Names:

Mila (20), Saleisha (21), Sarah (20) , Ambreal (19), Janet(22), Victoria (20)
Ebony (20), Chantal(19), Bianca (18), Lisa (20)
Jenah (18), Heather (21) ,Kimberly (20)

I really like Saleisha, she looks like Rihanna + Camille from C2. Ambreal, Jenah, Lisa, Sarah (who is allegedly PLUS-SIZED. Maybe Tyra will get her plus sized winner after all...) and Mila look pretty fierce as well.

saleisha reminds me of kesse!

Haha yeah I do see a little Kesse there as well.

You can see the girls in motion here:

http://www.cwtv.com/video?vid=333

I'm really excited for this cycle.

I really like Lisa's look!

are people even trying out for this anymore or are they pulling girls out of the local high school? i see only 3 that look vaguely modellish in that photo.

Damn, your local high school must be awesome.

i think i'm with i'm with ss... there's a big difference between girls who are skinny and reasonably pretty and girls who could actually be runway/editorial models.

Is it height?

in the video tyra claims that she is trying to find girls who aren't pretty in an expected way. she wants them to have a more off-beat look & hopes that people will say "WOW" when they see their photos.

I don't understand what people want from this show. I mean, do you really expect Tyra to find the NEXT BIG SUPERMODEL? Those girls are scooped up by modeling agencies when they're still pre-teens. This show gives girls a chance and some of them actually become pretty successful.

Also, have you guys seen REAL top models lately? Most of them are FUG:

http://www.femme.ee/img/artiklisse6/iekeliene.jpg

http://www.thefaceforward.com/images/profiled/image8-42.jpg

...

it's called america's next top model.

It's a reality show.

i'm sorry. i shouldn't judge these girls who have entered themselves in a looks-based competition that will be watched by millions of people.

That's not what I'm saying at all. I just think people have unrealistic expectations of the show.

you two are hilarious.

Ilu Lauren

This shit should be called America's Next Top Extra In a Chile's Commercial. None of the winner's have been successful as high fashion models, just as reality TV stars. Eva is easily the most successful, but she's not an Agyness Dynn or Freja Beja Erikson. Not even a Coco Rocha.

what about adrienne curry? the "taste of curry" spread in playboy? her own reality show? unless you mean successful as a model, of course.

There's more to fashion than Balenciaga runways. Quite a lot of these girls have become successful in their own way.

No, they're not Feja Beja or Lara Stone or Daria Werbowy or Sasha Papopvarova or whatever, but like.. MOST working models never get to that level. That's my point.

Plus, the show is entertaining as hell so who cares.

Yes, I know this show is an example of the more "commercial" perspective of the industry. I don't expect much of anything from it, but It hasn't been watchable since Janice, Nole and his little dog left.

It's not even good junk food TV anymore cause Twiggy's staleness sucks the life right out of the judging panel. It's all her fault.

And Ms.Jay should NOT be judging.

I've said it before: elyse is still by far my fave. She models a ton, too. She just wasn't the 'winner'.

I would not object too strongly if this show retooled itself as a reality series about second-place Joanie.

Hey...tonight! My money is on Bianca.

wait which one is Bianca? i like the girl in the middle who looks like Madonna

I'll be working I'm gonna miss this :-(.

so there's no "plus size" models this time?

no fatteys in the future ?

Allegedly Sarah is plus-sized (ie, size 8?????)

Was there a plus sized one before, in the picture upthread? I do not know who it is.

i'm never quite sure where the plus size threshold is

perfect timing! i need something now that rock of love is ending.

I miss the 2 HOUR PREMIERE EXTRAVAGANZA. Damn you, Gossip Girl.

Also, you can tell they're realling going to play up Heather's Apspergers, eh? She'll probably make it to the top 6/overseas because of the whole "inspirational" angle.

ok so which night will be rerun night? our cw is apparently airing new shows on sunday. i will never be home to watch this on wednesdays. sad face.

no dvr, tza?

and xxxxxxposts bianca is 3rd from the left middle row in that photo at the top of the thread.

did anyone watch gossip girl? is it the NYC OC? rrrobyn?

damn it. i didn't get home in time for either show.

lauren, your rock of love insights are required.

it's like the OC with all humour and self-awareness taken out. it was pretty fucking dull.

I had to switch over hastily to "Kitchen Nightmares," lest I be forced to throw my television out the window.

omg that guy peter on kitchen nightmares was totally out of control.

I miss the 2 HOUR PREMIERE EXTRAVAGANZA. Damn you, Gossip Girl.

Jesus and Mary Chain, does the Wikipedia entry spoil the whole cycle???

Wait, the black girl with red in her hair? Is a plus model??

Yeah, there's no one in that opening photo who looks in any way plus-size.

I would not object too strongly if this show retooled itself as a reality series about second-place Joanie.

sunny, i don't even have cable, much less dvr!!

i don't think jenah's panelogue was really even that bad - i got from it "this is hard and i miss my family but it is so important that i stay because i want to be successful and set a good example" rather than "i want my sisters to look up to me so i shoudl go home so they can do so literally."

i do not care for chantal, but i like her better than saleisha. ugh. i am going to get home just in time to miss this tonight.

I knew it was going to happen but I'm still pissed.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA U all are mad.

I AM INFURIATED, JENAH SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE REPRESENTATIVE BLONDE IN THE FINAL TWO, THIS REQUIRES REDRESS OR I'LL NEVER WATCH THIS SHOW AGAIN.

Also, the girl with the hott (or hotter) walk almost always wins, by my count, 6 out 9 times.

i stopped watching after the cover girl commercial shoot. it was pretty clear from the way that saleisha was being coddled ("oh, it's okay! you can't say the lines? don't worry! come sit over here and talk about your fears, then we'll do 40 more takes! you're special!") that she was going to win it all.

i can't watch this show without constructing new tyra gifs in my mind.

Even Tyra was like, "Uh, wow, I can't believe these are the final two, they just don't ... but you know, I'm so proud of them for making it this far!"

This was really anticlimactic.

It shoulda gone to Lisa. And once bitchy Bianca left, all the tension left with her.

But I'm glad Chantal didn't get it, I'll say that.

this show makes me want to murder people, and i am mild-mannered, so i don't understand how alex in nyc can watch it without going nuclear

i know. my v. mild-mannered bf goes beserk at least once an episode. he's developed a great jaslene impersonation, though.

(Saleish)Stowers was a former camp member at T-Zone, which is ANTM creator and host Tyra Bank's camp for girls. Before appearing on Cycle 9, Stowers also appeared in a Wendy's commercial with actor Tom Lenk for the Jalapeño Chedder Double Melt hamburger, an ANTM Cycle 6 episode, and as a model on the Tyra Banks Show for fashion designer Rami Kashou

I just found out that Jaslene used to live (and her parents still do) in the town I grew up in. REPRESENT.

this show makes me want to murder people, and i am mild-mannered, so i don't understand how alex in nyc can watch it without going nuclear

Well, firstly -- I enjoy wanting to murder people, so the fact that the show is so contemptible makes it somewhat intriguing. I refuse to watch bullshit like "Crowned" and the Tia Tequila stuff, but something about Top Model works for me (although they're swiftly running out of ideas, I'd say). Also, being that NONE of the previous winners have gone onto fame/glory (with the arguable exception of the one who married Peter Brady), it all seems like somewhat of a big fuckin' sham, no?

I saw Jaslene on 8th Street a few months ago. She has a crappy profile (not that mine's anything to shout about, mind you).

Oh, and my wife likes watching it, so what choice do i really have?

i know. my v. mild-mannered bf goes beserk at least once an episode. he's developed a great jaslene impersonation, though.

i do all of this including the jaslene impression. it drives my GF crazy

if my wife watches this show i have to go in the other room, i can't be anywhere where i can hear it

I like this show.

the "jenah's got a bad attitude" arc that developed really made me angry. she seemed intelligent (comparatively, at least), hard-working, motivated, and more self-assured than most of the other girls. have any of the other seasons made it so clear that if you don't kiss tyra's ass, subscribe to her brand of destructive psychobabble, and act like a wounded bird then you're out of there?

Saleisha is a beautiful woman who will be a fine model, or at least as fine a model as anyone else who has won.

Chantal is adorable and insufferable, and will be just fine, plus she needs to be humbled at something sometime in her life.

Jenna was hampered by a crap makeover but I still think her so-called magically-delicious photos are being overrated here, as are her snaggle-teeth (Leee).

And anyone complaining about how unfair any result on this show is needs to realize that the girl who wins is ALWAYS the girl that Tyra wants to win. It's a show about Tyra Banks, and, as such, is awesome.

plus they kept saying how jenah took the best photos of anyone! at the panel when nigek was like "chantal doesn't know what she's doing" i thought alright she's gone and jenah will crush saleisha. o well. and i thought caridee and melrose was a bad final 2.

"have any of the other seasons made it so clear that if you don't kiss tyra's ass, subscribe to her brand of destructive psychobabble, and act like a wounded bird then you're out of there?"

Um the first season was pretty much EXACTLY like this!

i thought that there was so much more desperation this season, though!

I pretty much just only watch for Miss J. And when my preseason favorite wins handily.

That's probably true. In addition to the girls getting generally less pretty, they also seem to be getting more unstable and immature.

I saw Jaslene on 8th Street a few months ago. She has a crappy profile (not that mine's anything to shout about, mind you).
that's nothing, i saw jade, the bitchy girl from cycle 6 riding the G train.

Oh hogwash. We have watched all the seasons this year and this season did not have any less prettiness than some of those middle seasons, ugh.

And Saleisha is a much better choice for #1 than say Adrienne or some of the other winners. I'm sorry but for all the times when someone this year said that Saleisha had that "girl next door" look -- WHERE THE EFF DO THESE PEOPLE LIVE AND WHY DID I NOT GROW UP THERE?

Actually I had several hot neighbors growing up, I won't even front.

oh wow. i just watched jenah's elimination. that was reprehensible.

omg lauren otmx11--0-00 on Jenahs being teh most stable one we should totally watch this stupid show together the Jenah smear campaign had me FUMING, and when Tyra was insisting on making her recount a sob story while crying as some sort of therapeutic epiphany was total emotional blackmail, and what made it more idiotic than usual was just how lazy and blatant Tyra was being about it.

D5, though I mostly agree with you on Chantal and Saleisha, so much whatevs on Jenah, they are not snaggles, they are if anything buck!

Though I only now realize that I have a history of liking the girls with dental let's call them monstrosities.

When they should Jenah looking like she'd actually put herself together in the interview segments at the start of the show, I thought she was going to win.

Oops.

it's true; she's got an overbite, not snaggleteeth.

xpost

I thought Danielle's and Joanie's dental "problems" were adorable, but every time Jenah opened her mouth, I thought, "Damn, girl, keep those things hidden!" The girl is not particularly attractive.

Jenah has more of a gum issue than a tooth issue.

http://jezebel.com/gossip/snap-judgment/saleisha-tried-to-curl-the-tootie-weave-333987.php

oof.

Am I seeing things, or are the tops of her feet tattooed?

ugh this was the absolute worst finale in the history of the show. i basically tuned out after jenahlimination and focused on my christmas cookie baking. actually, not just the worst finale, the worst season ever. nothing really interesting happened. the final two should have been heather and jenah - who cares if they are not cover girls, the winners never do much for cover girl anyway and i resent that all next cycle will be filled with saleisha's "life" as a "cover girl" segments.

the winners never do much for cover girl anyway and i resent that all next cycle will be filled with saleisha's "life" as a "cover girl" segments.

Precisely why I think this show is on its last legs.

i vaguely remember hearing it's been renewed through cycle 14

hahahahahahahaha

Have you guys seen this from Adrienne Curry's blog?

December 26, 2007 - Wednesday

Is Top Model a Scam? Reflecting on the New year

Is Top Model a Scam?
That’s what everyone has been asking me lately because of the last season. I didn’t watch it, but I came across the finale and watched it the other week. I guess the winner of the show not only has modeled before (Wendy’s commercials, Tyra Banks Show runway model) but that she also had a personal relationship with Tyra from being in her T-zone camp. According to my contract with Top Model, all of these things would keep you from even coming on the show, let alone win it.

I agree with the majority in saying that this is not fair. When I did watch the show, I didn’t think that they chose the girl who could actually model…but then I remembered that they are 9 seasons into this show and have yet to be successful in making a real “Top Model”. I would have picked the other girl based only on that I think she would work more. It’s Tyra’s show, and she can obviously do whatever she wants.

I love to compete. If I had been one of the other contestants, I would be crying foul everywhere I went. I am really surprised at how unfair that season seems. So I guess now real models are going to be allowed on the show? That should make things interesting.

I think that if all these rumors of the winner being tied in the industry and having a prior relationship with Tyra is true, that the title should be given to the runner up. I know Tyra is an honest person. I have been assured by many that Tyra isn’t unfair. Seeing how she isn’t, I know she will do the right thing in this situation. Heck, maybe after she is done righting this wrong, she could hint at the agency she placed me in to PAY me for the work I did and won through her show? Been trying to get that check since 2003. ; )”

Adrienne Curry is still alive? Whoa.

Alive and naked.

who is she?

ANTM Cycle 1 winner and middle brady child bride

Wow that blog is much juicier than elyse's

Yay, Lisa got signed to Major Model Management!:

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/3312/t479bff1f0b684lisajackscd5.jpg
http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/6118/002os4.jpg

Bianca got signed as well, did a few shows at NY Fashion Week.

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/1281/image4lisamajornv1.jpg