This video goes back a few seasons and this episode may have been one of the more awkward ones. This is the Nude Episode where the girls had to do a lesbian themed photo shoot.

Now, there have been other nude shoots, but in those the girls had some kind of costuming or body paint on. Anyway, this has become one of the more popular episodes of the show for obvious reasons.

Personally, I don’t get these kinds of fashion shoots. I mean, these girls want to be fashion models, as in modeling designer clothes for the designers. Posing nude has nothing to do with fashion or modeling. If the ladies wanted to pose nude and be gawked at by old men then they should have gone to Hugh Heffner and not Tyra Banks.  When was the last time you saw two lesbians on the covel of 17 Magazine? ahhh, never. I think the episode was in bad taste and unacceptable because the girls in question are teens and forced to do this to stay in the competition. If I was the parent of one of the teens and found out my daughter had to do a nude softcore lesbian porn scene in front of dozens of strange men… I would be pissed. Now add that the scene is all over the internet getting the most lewd and crude of sexual comments…. I would be livid.

this is the Youtube description

The final four models must pair up and pose nude together in one of the most erotic photo shoots in America’s Next Top Model history. Yoanna & Shandi pose together first, followed by April & Mercedes. Mercedes is uncomfortable with the nudity and lesbian theme of the shoot, so her partner April tries to help her get through it.

Lesbian photo shoots aimed at seducing men should stay where they belong, the pages of playboy, penthouse, hustler, etc. Maybe in a few more seasons and a few more nude shoots the show can change its name to America’s next Top Porn Star.

Posted: August 7th, 2008 under Americas Next Top Model, Reality TV shows.
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This may not be something you should avoid doing when auditioning for a modeling job or acting role. Two ladies attending a casting call get into a fight over who slept with whose man. This is pretty funny

Posted: July 18th, 2008 under Funny Auditions, Reality TV shows.
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jen hunter & Marianne Berglund make me a supermodel

The debate over super thin models started a few years back after models started dropping due to starvation and has continued since with restrictions put in place on what was too skinny to model.

In 2007 the show “Make me a Supermodel” brought the issue into the National TV spotlight even more with this episode…

When 2 finalists, Hunter and Berglund, wore the same swimsuit. Jen Hunter looks as if this outfit was custom-made for her, Jen Hunter looked amazing in the outfit.

But finalist Marianne Berglund appeared painfully underweight in the same suit and grotesque with her hip and rib bones sticking out through the fabric.
During the show Miss Hunter was criticized for being overweight while Berglund was praised for her perfect physique.

from an article by By TAHIRA YAQOOB in 2007

Judge Tandy Anderson, managing director of Select Model Management, criticised her for having “stocky” legs while supermodel Rachel Hunter, a fellow panellist, reprimanded her for saying she wanted to prove larger women could be successful models.

Swedish blonde Miss Berglund, 18, who made it to the final with her, was meanwhile praised for having a “sensational” body for modelling despite having a body mass index of 16.1.

It fell well below the minimum BMI of 18 for models taking part in Madrid Fashion Week in September, set after catwalk model Luisel Ramos dropped dead from self-starvation.

From NYmag…

The skinny-model debate raged on today thanks to Bradley Bayou. The former Halston designer started fighting the good fight after watching his own daughter battle anorexia. He stopped using size-0 and size-2 models, but still witnessed his daughter collapse from the disease. “There are two ways to become a size zero,” Bayou said Tuesday night at Harvard. “Starve yourself or take drugs. Or both. And yes, they all do it.”

The designer said the CFDA is ignoring the problem. CFDA officials, however, feel the guidelines drawn up over a year ago to help designers and casting directors identify eating disorders and ensure runway models are healthy are in fact working:

Responding to Bayou, CFDA executive director Steven Kolb said Wednesday the organization’s education and awareness efforts are causing a culture shift. “There is no question there has been movement,” he said. “I see it already on the runways. I’m getting calls from designers and casting agents who are not using girls who don’t meet our criteria for health….Getting involved in the complexity of a standardized law [regarding a mandatory minimum body mass index] is not the answer.”

Maybe New York should finally start taking cues from our Euro counterparts? Milan Fashion Week prohibits models with a body mass index below 18.5 from the runways; Madrid rejected 30 percent of models from walking its recent Fashion Week because they were unhealthy; but we have no such regulations, and watching the New York shows this season often felt like an exercise in bone counting.

It’s great people are still talking about this issue, but we’d guess that until a designer like Marc Jacobs decides flesh is in, it’s just all talk.

Posted: May 2nd, 2008 under Model News, Reality TV shows, make me a supermodel.
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Here is a clip fro the Reality TV series “The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency”, for anyone caught in outer space for the last few years, Janice, was on the Tyra Banks show, America’s Next Top Model, then went on to her own modeling show showcasing what goes on in her modeling agency and the things that a modeling agency does to promote its models.

This particular clip is from a poker game that the models were having and shows a few of them getting drunk and stupid(foolio running around in tighty whities) and maybe not looking top notch for the shoots they had the following days. Janice, is not fond of the hung-over red eye look it seems.

Posted: May 2nd, 2008 under Americas Next Top Model, Janice Dickinson, Male Models, Reality TV shows.
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