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So I heard the news about whats going on with Tyra Banks and her show America’s Next Top Model. A few months back I remember hearing about the craziness, riot and arrests at the ANTM New York America’s Next Top Model Casting Call. I also read after that crazy casting call, ANTM will change the way modeling casting calls are done for the show.

Tyra and the producers decided to switch it up a bit for cycle 13, maybe the ratings have been dipping. Anyway, ANTM cycle 13 will be all shorter models who are 5′7″ and under. The show also has said that they wanted a diverse bunch in all shapes and sizes.

With that said, you gotta wonder how a short model will fit into the high fashion scene of today. There were a few shorter models that did make supermodel stardom, Kate Moss and Twiggy come to mind, but for the most part the majority have been extremely tall. The reasoning behind that is that many designers feel their clothes look better on taller, leaner women.

So far in the history of the Tyra Banks ANTM show, none of the ladies have made it to supermodel stardom. So maybe it is time for a change.

The casting calls for the Tyra Banks show America’s Next Top Model Cycle 14 are going on this month all over the country. A few days ago the show went to Columbus and held auditions and interviews for a few hundred aspiring models.

Cycle 13 had cast short models for the show, so I have yet to find out what this new season of ANTM will be casting for, guess we’ll wait and hear.

In the meantime, below is the audition schedule for ANTM Cycle 14.  ANTM may be coming to a city near you.

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So I actually made it through the entire America’s Next Top Model Cycle 11 reality TV marathon ending with the finale which crowned McKay the winner and America’s Next Top Model. McKey is a stunning girl and definitely deserved the win.

Lets take a look back through this last season of ANTM

Nikeysha, the anorexic girl, who looked incredibly skinny and made the other size 1 models look plump standing next to her.

Here is Sheena, who really reminds probably everyone of a slim Kimora, maybe it’s the pudgy round face. Anyway, she just kept getting knocked for being a hoochie mama. Her lying to the judges about her fake boobs didn’t help her situation. I mean, you rarely see see the Givenchy runway models flashing a pair of silicone Double D’s.

No matter how hard this girl tried, she alway’s seemed a bit out of place.

Isis, not really a girl, but close enough I guess. What the hell was Tyra Banks even thinking here? maybe… ratings? This one really confused me because I read the requirements for the show and they clearly states a female 17 to 27. Maybe the producers though if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. Isis is really a man and I watched the swim suit episode where Isis tried to cover her manhood while wearing a bikini. BTW, the huge feet and hands may not have helped her either. I can’t even imagine how the girls felt being beaten by a guy in the first few episodes where Isis was around.

Now, what if Isis did actually win got the Covergirl and squeeky clean Seventeen magazine contract? Would Elite models really sign her? Guess we’ll never know. Too bad.

Anyway, I guess it all makes for great reality TV in the end and congrats to McKey.

Losing on America’s Next Top Model may in fact be better than winning. Seems, if you lose you may get the modeling contracts just that much faster. Two of last season’s losers got snatched up by Elite as soon as they went off the show.

Anya Rozova, or Anya Kop ANTM last season is now signed with Elite, and we may see much more of her in the near future as the agency starts booking her. Anya, Now back to being a brunette says the blonde hair color that America’s Next Top Model gave her was a bit hard for her to keep up and I for one think she looks much better as a brunette than the ANTM look of “bleached blonde”. I loved her on the show and was hoping she would win it. I am glad Anya still came out a winner post ANTM.

here’s some commentary from a news report..

“Each season Elite plucks non-winners from the ANTM cast. Rozova’s former housemate and competitor, Katarzyna Dolinska, was signed “the second she lost.” “Last season was a great batch,” Covarrubias added. “Whitney’s kicking butt, Anya’s kicking butt, Katarzyna’s kicking butt. We’re doing really well with the three girls we ended up with.”

Yep, its not easy being a supermodel and walking down a slick, slippery fashion runway in sky high stilettos. This is a compilation video of some very embarrassing stiletto moments and runway spills on the shiny slick fashion catwalks around the world. Check out the model in the giant white… I am not even sure what it is… getup, I can’t believe she did not fall in that. wow, painful to watch. And, there is another runway spill there in the video that looks like a baseball player sliding into home, yikes. Yep, fashion may in fact hurt…your butt that is.

This video also contains a short interview with Ms. Jay Alexander, from ANTM America’s Next Top Model and famous runway coach giving his 2 cents.

famous fashion runway models falling moments.

At first glance this may remind you of Americas Next Top Model, Tyra Bank’s hit modeling competition where she casts models from all around the world and they compete for a modeling contract. Anyway, this is not ANTM, This is CNTM, Clevelands Next Top Model, a spoof on the Tyra Banks show.

This video is too funny and shows the ladies competing for the title of CNTM and Miss. Ghetto Fabulous

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