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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, October 03, 2009 - 10:53 pm
one thing we are forgetting is that there ARE supermodels under height. Kate Moss is someone who is tiny looking when standing beside the usual sized models. My problem with this season is the cast. NONE of those girls is remotely interesting. Even 'Bloody eye" keeps her mouth shut and we barely see her speak. Tne Mean girl gang act like they are still in high school. When I see these girls at judging I want to scream What the HECK are you wearing?? its like the producers rounded up girls who are tiny builds (atypical for under 5'7) with LONG legs and arms but Zero fashion sense. Usually there is someone who stands out for me. This year no one catches my eye. IF Tyra and the others truly felt "face beauty shots" was the best a short model can do, the door should have been open to regular bone structured women. ALLLLLLLLllllll these girls are tiny tiny fragile boned creatures. i have a good friend with tiny bones like that. We're both 5'2 but I look like a Rhino next to her tiny build. We are similar size in clothes but her tiny wrists and ankles make everything look way better. Oh and she kinda is built like TIny Turner...long thin legs up to ... but I digress as usual.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, October 04, 2009 - 10:20 am
Kate Moss is the rare exception.
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Spunky
Member
10-08-2001
| Thursday, October 08, 2009 - 7:24 am
this season is a major FLOP!! I agree with those that say that not only they're short but don't have any special beauty, very ordinary faces that can look a bit better with all that makeup. I'm sure there are many more beautiful girls out there than those Tyra picked. It's a mystery why she can't find them.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, October 08, 2009 - 9:02 am
Or why she doesn't pick them! 
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Zgoodgirl
Member
08-22-2003
| Thursday, October 08, 2009 - 2:20 pm
But for real, how many winners from past shows are actually now 'supermodels'? None. But a lot of them have gotten some decent jobs, their foot in the door, good advice, and a lot of contacts, something that they probably would have never had the opportunity to do before ANTM. Sure, none of them will probably ever come near to supermodel status, but they're doing things that they're would never had a shot to do.
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Friday, October 09, 2009 - 7:31 am
I didn't like this week at all!!!!! First judging them as 3, having them do that silly dance (even though I enjoyed the real dance crew) and so true about Tyra standing on that platform to hand out the photos! ugh! Not loving Tyra in that hair color either!
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Friday, October 09, 2009 - 10:47 am
this season sucks. IF short models only get certain kinds of jobs, the whole routine of this season should have been different. a focus on face for instance. this season has the scrawniest unhealthy looking contestants too. A couple of them are emasciated looking and have that tight looking skin around the eyes suggestive of bulemia/ anorexia. and am i the Only one sooooooooo Tired of lame *ss Benny Ninja? who the Heck is little mama and why was half the show a performance by other people ? did anyone else notice that they did NOT zoom in on anyone's face during the Judging? It was like everyone's face was so screwed up in the pic that they had zero redeeming factors. Maybe JAY is not the man to continue to do these photoshoots. IF someone needs to point their toe, he should say. Instead he seems to make up his mind to just let certain people flounder....because he is frustrated with them. it isnt professional.
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Angelicfairies2
Member
07-19-2004
| Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 12:23 pm
Maybe it's just me but I think Nicole is just stunning.
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 12:58 pm
Nicole is my favorite. Erin's hair/eyebrow color looked freaky on the beach last night or was it just my tv?
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 1:25 pm
I caught last night's show (mostly cuz everything else was in reruns and I was bored). I thought Nicole's pix were the best. Jennifer's scared me. And yeah, something was off about Erin's. This show is so predictable. I hadn't watched the last couple of eps. But I knew last night it would be down to Erin or Brittany going home. Personally, I'd have sent Sundai or Jennifer home. Their pix scared me! 
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Lakecat
Member
10-01-2006
| Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 2:29 pm
Jennifer is just not pretty,not even in an interesting model sort of way,and Ive never been impressed with Sundai as much as Tyra has.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 3:51 pm
Is Sundai the one Tyra snagged from her audience? If so, then Sundai is gonna win. The other girls may as well just enjoy the Maui sunshine and go home.
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Lakecat
Member
10-01-2006
| Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 4:36 pm
No,Costacat,that was Ashley.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 5:36 pm
Oh, well in that case, never mind. And even more so, totally not impressed with Sundai OR Jennifer also. I think Nicole is the one that has impressed me most whenever I've caught an episode. And she seems to photograph really well and "tall."
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Friday, October 30, 2009 - 6:02 am
I don't get Jennifer either-not to seem too nit-picky but a couple of times I wish she had her mouth closed-I think her teeth look funny. Sundai is a cute girl- I like her with short hair but she is no model.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, October 30, 2009 - 6:52 am
Costa - how true - its the 2 or 3rd time I've watched a part of this cycle - but its the first time I watched from beginning to end!! From Tyra's tirade about their nasty apartment - hello! that went nowhere - a just kidding you are going to Hawaii... what was the point again? (why not announce it elsewhere?) To the controversial 'black face' - while they were announcing it, I thought, surely not - to watching the make up going on their bodies and faces - uh oh WTH are they thinking? Invincible? Even tho Tyra kept trying to point out it wasnt cliche it was "fashion" I was watching the train wreck - and ending with the native American Headress to me was just so wrong on so many levels... I noticed they didnt do any "Hawaiian" cliche's!
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Friday, October 30, 2009 - 7:37 am
Yeah, Tyra totally missed the boat on hapa. I was in Maui on vacation last month (and loved it!). While there I saw the Cirque du Soleil inspired show called 'Ulalena. The show was basically the story of how Hawai'i was discovered by Tahitians, inhabited, grew and prospered, was discovered by the Captain Cook and the "white man" who then brought death (via guns and disease). Pele became disgusted and wreaked havoc, then came the healing rains of 'Ulalena. During the midpoint of the show was when they explained how other immigrants from other countries came to work the sugar cane fields. The immigrants pretty much lived amongst their own countryfolk in communities throughout Maui. While I'm sure the immigrants bred amongst themselves, they also bred amongst the maoli, or native Hawai'ians. As far as the Native American headdress, in all that I learned about Maui, I don't recall Native Americans being a part of it.
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Jgalt
Member
02-17-2009
| Friday, October 30, 2009 - 8:48 pm
I think we have to get over being super sensitive to everything to do with race. I thought the girls looked lovely, who cares if their skin was darkened or lightened or what the heck it was. We've lost it as a country. So they were dipicting a combination of races, isn't this what America is made from, an assimilation of different people? I think our problem as a country is when people refuse to assimilate, this assimilation is what made our country strong. We're NOT white, black etc., we're Americans with Euorpean ancestry, we are Americans with African ancestry, we're Americans with Asian ancestry, we're Americans with Hispanic ancestry, let's stop this division and just start being Americans first.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, November 01, 2009 - 8:01 am
Excuse me Jgalt, but Tyra was NOT "dipicting" America. She very explicitly talked about "hapa" in the context of Hawaii. If she was really going to depict hapa, she should've learned a bit more about the culture in Maui. FWIW, I had no problem with the darkening of the models' skin. I did have a problem with the over exaggeration of "traits" that are used to depict other races.
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Monday, November 02, 2009 - 8:51 pm
I see Costa's pov. I do not have a problem with the tone color switch. But I do think Tyra sometimes gives herself wayyyy tooo much freedom with her Artist's License.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 2:25 am
using makeup to darken skin tone is not 'black face'. historically Blackface is a derogitory meanspirited mocking of what some people might consider stereotypical african features. there was no negative intent to the darkening of the skin of the models. In other seasons the models have been painted various colours and occasionally Whitened. No one says a word about it. i heard about the contraversy before i watched the episode. My first thought was the media was part of a Publicity stunt. i felt bad for britney. They were telling her it was great during her shoot. If they wanted her Other arm up (bare shoulder side) and to show more neck, she should ahve been directed to do it. all in all I dont think any of these girls have a chance in the real world. Everytime I hear Laura talk I think of naive young girls who are soooooo eager to please they end up in porn. and Why do they all wear flats during judging? it is driving me nutz. they show up looking like they've just walked in from the mall.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 6:40 am
Oh, these girls totally don't have a chance to become a top model, in any category. Not even just face models.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 12:28 pm
Agree on the flats. You'd think they would all show up wearing 5" heels like in prior seasons, but I guess the producers want to play up the 5'7" and under concept.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 2:21 pm
The flats plus the 2' high platform Tyra stands on... so totally obvious and such a joke.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Wednesday, November 04, 2009 - 8:56 pm
I think it's going to be a Jennifer / Nicole final 2. Bye-bye Sundai, Erin and Laura will probably go next.
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