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Top Model: The Girl Who Takes Credit
By Edie Rowland
Thursday, March 29, 2007
This episode made me kind of not like Sarah again - just a little bit. (Boy, do I sound like a junior high student or what? “Sarah, you’re not my friend anymore!”)
Anyway, a lot of show centered around Natasha this week because the girls have a lot of questions about her marriage. (She was married at 18 to a 40-year-old American who brought her to the U.S. from Russia.) They think she might be a mail order bride. Wow, the shipping cost must be sky-high. (*rimshot*) They show Natasha on the phone having a very private conversation, if you get my drift. I mean, they are married, so it’s completely within their rights, but I don’t really want to be privy to it. She was purring. Seriously.
When Tyra Mail says something about “looking your worst,” Jael screams out, “I win this one!” At least she notices. (Sorry, that was mean and I love her, but she does look rough most of the time.) The girls meet with the Director of Elite Model Management who teaches them how to dress like a model by showing them how not to dress. It’s pretty funny when she tells them to put on the outfits, they talk about how great they are, and then she says they look horrible. (Okay, so she didn’t use those words, but it was the insinuation.)
Renee further boosts her chances of being named Miss Congeniality by telling Whitney that there will never be a plus-sized model on the cover of Vogue. I hate to tell her, but since the taping of this Top Model Cycle, Jennifer Hudson has made the cover of Vogue and she’s definitely plus-sized by modeling standards. So there! Whitney mentions that she’s a size 8. Somebody needs to tell those modeling industry people that size 8 is not plus in the real world.
For the challenge this week, the girls went to a Sears warehouse. First Goodwill, now Sears. It’s nice that Top Model is being practical - now if they can just get that plus-sized fiasco fixed, they’ll be firmly entrenched in the lives of normal people. The girls were split into three groups and told to dress with style and form an in-store display. Dionne pretty much dressed the girls in her group, Renee and Sarah, and when Sarah won the challenge, it didn’t seem fair because she didn’t even pick out her clothes. It wouldn’t have been that bad - I mean it wasn’t Sarah’s fault she won - if she hadn’t bragged about it like she had done all the work. She should have given the credit to Dionne. Because she won, she got to do two photo shoots. She did one shoot, looked at the pictures, and then got a do-over. That should have been Dionne’s do-over.
Speaking of the photo shoot, the girls had to dress like men and pose with men dressed like women. That was hilarious! Brittany and Natasha were the best. Brittany had to be outdoorsy. She was just a Jeff Foxworthy joke waiting to happen. Natasha was hip-hop. I would have never thought she’d be able to pull it off, but she was phenomenal! She really looked and acted the part. Even down to the foil she put on her teeth.
During the judging panel, Dionne got props on looking better than last week. I guess that means she’s probably safe this week. I was worried about the two full-figured models and my worry was justified when they were in the bottom two. It made me kind of sad. I was hoping the both of them would make it farther. I would LOVE to see a normal sized girl win Top Model and that has a greater chance of happening if two of them make it as far as possible. Diana ended up going home. Whitney is understandably upset. This makes me more sad than any of the other eliminations. And I usually don’t get that sad over TV shows. Except for the Incredible Hulk. I used to cry at the end when they played that sad music as he walked down the road alone. He could never have a normal life. *Sniff!*
Next week, Jael calls Renee on her disrespect toward everybody. If Jael is having a problem with her, you know she’s a problem because Jael loves everybody. Anyway, Renee wasn’t as bad this week except for that whole Vogue cover thing. I felt a little guilty talking so harshly about her last week, so I tried giving her a chance this week - she’s not making it easy. Anyway, tune in next week to see who “continues on towards becoming America’s Next Top Model.” See ya then!
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