2006 Next Top Model Ditched the Industry for Health
As a little girl, did you ever dream of modeling - being in the spotlight, photographed, oohed and awed over and having other people wish they could be your friend? A lot of girls do, or alternatively, a lot wish for something similar via pageants, acting and/or singing careers. I’ve written about what a random magazine will put in it, drawing a correlation between content and advertising, and women’s self-image issues, but imagine the pressure you’d feel when very much in the public eye, say, on a reality-based show wherein the winner is awarded a modelling contract?
America’s Next Top Model blew up overnight it seemed. Tyra’s bigger-than-life personality, the semi-mockery of mostly teenage girls, the flagrant alternation between maternal guiding and hissy fits. It had something for everyone and the word fierce became an all-too-well-used one. Then was spawned Canada’s Next Top Model in May of 2006. Andrea Muizelaar was the premiere season’s winner, to the chagrin of many viewers.
Recently, Andrea was interviewed by a writer for Wikinews, which has initially hyped that CNTM is to blame, in part at least, for her eating disorder and her subsequent retirement from modeling.
In fact, she explains her background, intimating that somewhere around 14 is when she became anorexic - she had decided that she wanted to model after outgrowing her geeky, awkward stage, and lost 20 pounds in preparation. After winning the show, she says that she was ashamed of her appearance - that she couldn’t face the children she used to babysit. She also gives quite an embittered opinion of Tyra Bank’s decision to select plus-sized models, though none of them have ever won the show or come close to doing so.
I suggest checking it out. It confirmed my suspicions of the show(s), but also, well, it made me a little sad that she was putting so much apparent blame on the show. I mean, you entered a modeling contest, what did you think it would be like?
November 28th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Nice and usefull post, thanks, this is one for my bookmarks!
May 4th, 2009 at 8:05 am
In cycle 12 of America’s next Topmodel in my opinion Fo looks best. She got a nice exotic looking and I like her photos, don’t you think so? Cheers
June 20th, 2010 at 1:55 am
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