Do Top Model Winners Really Get Work?
Hey, awesome Answer B!tch! I am an avid watcher of America's Next Top Model, and I was wondering how many past winners actually have modeling careers. Is anyone really a top model, or even a working model, once the prize fulfillment with CoverGirl is over? I read many fashion mags and have yet to see anyone.Kristi, Rockford, Illinois
First off, congrats to you, Seleisha. No one rocks a Three Stooges bowl cut like you do, girl, and all while making fun of someone with mild autism. Now that's multitasking.
If I ever need a model to sell my citrus-scented lip gloss while simultaneously thinking up ways to make the mentally disabled feel even worse about themselves, you and Bianca will be the first models I'll call. Make sure to wait by the phone. This could happen any second now.
Kristi, your question is a good one, and I've got an even better answerand from a high-fashion modeling insider.
"The fashion industry doesn't take the show seriously," says my source, who worked in the modeling field for years. "Clients are finicky about choosing their own faces. People like to select their own girls, and to be handed a girl that someone else has deemed fabulousthat equation doesn't really work out."
Right. Prada can find its own pliant, insectoid girls with no vowels in their last names, thanks very much. Besides, Tyra's girls are only pliant, not pliant and insectoid, like Daria Werbowy or Lily Donaldson.
Besides, my source says, do you have any idea how terribly small the high-fashion modeling scene really is? There's just no room for another girl, not even a really skinny girl with a following on the CW.
"The group of high-fashion girls who do the Vogues, the W spreads, the editorial spreads, the superluxury campaigns and runway is a really tiny group," my source says. "Maybemaybe100 girls around the world."
And remember: Some of those girls are picked for dozens of gigs every season, while others get no work at all.
To be fair, the Top Model winners have scored some decent gigs. Jaslene Gonzalez became the face of a brand called Lot 29 back in September. CariDee English landed a national campaign with JC Penney. I've even seen runner-up Mercedes Scelba-Shorte walking the runway during L.A. Fashion Week.
But again, many designers don't want anything to overshadow their brand or the looks they've worked hard to create. If a Chanel or a Louis Vuitton were to cast Jaslene for a campaign, what would be the first thought in your head: Gee, what a nice pair of turquoise python leggings! or Hey, that's Jaslene from Top Model! And she's wearing something!
See? Unless a fledgling designer really needs that boost from a semicelebrity, a Top Model winner could actually hinder an expensive campaign.
Unless that campaign is for anti-autism lip gloss. Then I know exactly whom to call.
The big new toy: America’s Next Top Model dolls
There are many TV shows that are a natural when it comes to making dolls and action figures for them: Lost, Heroes, Star Trek. Maybe even those bobbleheads of Dwight from The Office. But dolls for America’s Next Top Model? That makes as much sense as a line of dolls for The McLaughlin Group (”I’ll trade you my Pat Buchanan for the Eleanor Clift!”), but they’re here, and they’re scary.
I think this is going to screw up kids even more, as if image and weight problems aren’t already a problem with girls approaching their teen years. I’m terrible at math so I can’t really figure out what those dimensions mean, but something tells me the waist size on these dolls wouldn’t make sense in the real world. Not that the world of modeling is the “real world.” Just look at the names of these dolls: Paisley, Sienna, Sidney, and Tascha. Are those the names of people or colors for a new clothing line this spring? Remember when George dated a girl named Sienna and Jerry said, “yeah, he’s dating a crayon.”
But it’s good to see that little girls around the world can now have the world of anorexia, bulimia and bitchiness in their own households twenty-four hours a day!
Zac Efron Targeted By Paris Hilton?
Zac Efron Targeted By Paris Hilton?
Zac Efron is quickly becoming one of the hottest stars in Hollywood, and melting the hearts of girls around the world. This Efron mania is not just limited to excited fans, as Paris Hilton apparently is making her move on the High School Musical star.
Zac is currently dating his co-star Vanessa Hudgens, and definitely off the market (or so the publicists say). This minor fact seems to be of little concern to the hotel heiress. She recently told OK Magazine, “I think he’s beautiful. He’s young but gorgeous. I saw him on the cover of Rolling Stone, and he looked really cute.”
Boyfriend stealing has become an art in itself the past couple of years in Hollywood. If it were a corporation, Paris would be the CEO. Hudgens should have little alarm bells going off in her head right now that snap her into protective mode. If you remember, Paris even tried to use the old Hilton charm on David Beckham a couple of weeks ago, but Victoria put an immediate stop to the advances.
Vanessa Hudgens is a beautiful girl, but dating Paris would significantly raise Efron’s stock value in Hollywood. Most couples in Hollywood appear to be together for the purposes of self-promotion, not true love. Only time will tell if Efron allows Paris’ tractor beam to suck him in.
In the meantime,