One of the 14 girls who will compete on the new season of America’s Next Top Model – which returns to The CW on September 3 – is transgender.
“My cards were dealt differently,” Isis, a 22-year-old former receptionist, tells Us Weekly exclusively in its new issue, on newsstands now.
Hailing from Prince George’s County, Maryland, Isis identifies herself as “a woman born physically male.”
Will she be a role model?
“I like to help people, but I’m here to follow my dreams,” she tells Us.
The inclusion of Isis is being hailed by GLAAD president Neil Giuliano as “an unprecedented opportunity for a community that is underrepresented on television.
“We applaud Tyra Banks and The CW for making this historic visibility of transgender people possible,” Giuliano said.
source: Transgender Contestant to Compete on Top Model [us magazine]
Tyra Banks had the contestants on America’s Next Top Model literally wear slabs of meat for their latest photo shoot.
Doesn’t that look yummy?
There were beef bras and beef panties all over the place. Seriously, this is truly a sick concept…. disgusting. Come on Tyra, you can do better than this.
Paulina Porizkova is set to be a judge on “America’s Next Top Model” even though she doesn’t have much faith in the show.
Paulina doesn’t think Tyra Banks‘ reality show produces any real supermodels.
She told TVGuide,
“Models are not superstars anymore. With cheap computer retouching, anybody can be a cover girl. You can be 50 and have acne, but look gorgeous by the time they’re done with you. Models are back to what they were in the ‘70s: clothes hangers.”
“[They want to be models] for the same reason I did — they’re looking for love. They think, ‘I’m on TV; people will realize that I’m worth something. But once the TV’s over and they join the real world, it’ll be a whole different thing.”
Adrianne Curry will appear in the January 2008 issue of Playboy. She originally posed in February 2006 shortly after winning “America’s Next Top Model”. She’s certainly a gorgeous model, but I don’t think Playboy is quite what Tyra and the gang had in mind when they crowned her the best model of the cycle.
Playboy’s promo reads:
“Adrianne Curry — Since America’s Top Model wed Christopher Knight, we have a new favorite Brady. Come see why in an unbridled pictorial, and keep your eyes wide shut. Thanks for sharing, Pete.”
Adrianne is reportedly getting paid $2 million for the photo spread.
More revealing pics of Adrianne:
Source: “Adrianne Curry Poses For Playboy” [Right Celebrity]
“I have been worn thin. I am stressed, my anxiety is out the roof, my body is weak, I’ve lost 10 pounds from being sick, and I’m depressed.
At least I can admit that I am unhealthy in the mind.”
She also said that as a teen, she “used to fall into these funks all the time,” but now she reveals that she might need a little “help” to beat the blues this time.
“I think I may ask if it’s time to be put on some meds again,” she writes. “Being in this state of mind is very dangerous for me. The last thing I need is to be offered drugs at this weak state.”
Adrianne also threw in this gem about celebrities:
“Models are not superstars anymore. With cheap computer retouching, anybody can be a cover girl. You can be 50 and have acne, but look gorgeous by the time they’re done with you. Models are back to what they were in the ‘70s: clothes hangers.”
“Adrianne Curry — Since America’s Top Model wed Christopher Knight, we have a new favorite Brady. Come see why in an unbridled pictorial, and keep your eyes wide shut. Thanks for sharing, Pete.”
