On the left is America's Next Top Model 10 runner-up Anya. On the right is top 3 semifinalist Fatima. Above you see, at the very least, 2 of the very best models ever to be featured on ANTM. And yet ... they both lost in the finale to Whitney, Cycle 10's plus-size model. Oh ... & did I mention that Whitney can't model?
'Why, then, is she the new Top Model winner?' you might wonder. Why, thanks for asking! Buzz on the show was fading, some believing it had gone on far beyond its time. (Note: Was I one of those people? No! Was I a loyal watcher who still enjoyed the show whole-heartedly? Yes!) Also, many were simply positive that a full-figured girl would never win the show.
Hmm... let's see. Your show is on the most ratings-challenged network of all the major stations & people are losing interest. Oh, the horror! So, Tyra did the one simply pathetic thing she could possibly do to make the world care in the least bit that her little show still exists--make a plus-size girl win. Well, Whitney, in all her caddy, haughty glory, was the only one there, so she had to win. Unfortunately for Tyra & Co., Whitney can't model. They knew this because she had been in the bottom 2 ... 4 times! But, ah heck, so much for the reputation of the show.
What makes this bad is that the girls she was up against were not only SOOO much better than Whitney, but they could have easily won any other cycle of the show. And Anya was actually extremely likable on top of her uncanny ability to model! As for Fatima, there is no way around it: the girl is incredible.
So, there you have it. The show has gone the way of American Idol with its rigging for ratings & there's no hiding it. Pathetic.
Well, thanks for putting up with my rant! As a reward, here are some amazing shots (to prove my point) of what should have been--not that they do the girl any justice...:
2 comments:
I Love your blog, and well I think this was a personal choice, Tyra chose Whitney because she is hurt since that time when the magazines put a picture of her in the beach and she look fat in it, Too bad Anya didn't win she was the best, she look like a true model, also Katazyna, and Fatima she is nice and all but she is full of excuses and also because she looks like Iman she probably tough she had the the title of ANTM.
Thanks! Good point about Tyra's personal issues. I liked Kat too ... she should have rounded out the finale imo. & that's also true about Fatima, but I just really liked her! lol
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