America's Next Top Model season 12
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The twelfth season of America's Next Top Model premiered on March 4, 2009 and was the sixth season to air on The CW network. The season's catch phrase is "Get In The Fold." The season's promotional song is Lady Gaga's "The Fame".
The prizes for this season were:
- A modeling contract with Elite Model Management.
- A fashion spread and cover in Seventeen.
- A US$100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics.
The first half of the season took place in New York City, moving the show back from Los Angeles last season. The international destination for this season is São Paulo, Brazil, the series first visit to South America.
The number of girls was reduced to 13, the first time since season 9, after being maintained at 14 in the last two seasons. This was the last time Paulina Porizkova participated as judge.
The winner was 20-year-old Teyona Anderson from Woodstown, New Jersey. This season averaged 4.35 million viewers per episode.[1]
Contestants
(ages stated are at start of contest)[2]
| Contestant | Age | Hometown | Finish | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isabella Falk | 19 | Barboursville, Virginia | Episode 2 | 13 |
| Jessica Santiago | 18 | Caguas, Puerto Rico | Episode 3 | 12 |
| Nijah Harris | 18 | Rancho Cucamonga, California | Episode 4 | 11 |
| Kortnie Coles | 24 | Houston, Texas | Episode 5 | 10 |
| Sandra Nyanchoka | 19 | Rockville, Maryland | Episode 6 | 9 |
| Tahlia Brookins | 18 | Phoenix, Arizona | Episode 7 | 8 |
| London Levi | 18 | Arlington, Texas | Episode 9 | 7 |
| Natalie Pack | 19 | Palos Verdes, California | Episode 10 | 6 |
| Fo Porter | 19 | Albuquerque, New Mexico | Episode 11 | 5 |
| Celia Ammerman | 25 | Cynthiana, Kentucky | Episode 12 | 4 |
| Aminat Ayinde | 21 | Union, New Jersey | Episode 13 | 3 |
| Allison Harvard | 20 | New Orleans, Louisiana | 2 | |
| Teyona Anderson | 20 | Woodstown, New Jersey | 1 |
Episodes
What Happens in Vegas
First aired March 4, 2009
- Featured photographer: Jessica Brooks
Fun and Games
First aired March 4, 2009
- Featured photographer: Fadil Berisha
- Special guest: Laura Poretzky
Do You Light The Way I Look?
First aired March 11, 2009
- Featured photographer: Nigel Barker
- Special guests: Nolé Marin, John Barrett, Elyssa Starkman
New York's Finest
First aired March 18, 2009
- Featured photographer: Mike Rosenthal
- Special guests: Jill Stuart, Ann Shoket, Bianca Golden, Chantal Jones
- Top Model in Action: Bianca Golden (season 9)
Put Your Best Face Forward
First aired March 25, 2009
- Featured photographer: Brian Edwards
- Special guests: Benny Ninja, David Blond, Phillipe Blond, Sky Nellor, Toccara Jones
- Top Model in Action: April Wilkner (season 2)
Here's Your Test
First aired April 1, 2009
- Featured photographer: Keith Major
- Special guests: Beth Stern
- Top Model in Action: Whitney Thompson (season 10)
Acting Like A Model
First aired April 8, 2009
- Featured commercial director: Peter Chelkowski
- Special guests: Clay Aiken, McKey Sullivan, Elyssa Starkman
- Top Model in Action: Heather Kuzmich (season 9)
Cycle 12 Rewind
First aired April 10, 2009
- Top Model in Action: Claire Unabia (season 10)
Take Me To The Photo Shoot
First aired April 15, 2009
- Featured photographers: James Wade, Mike Ruiz
- Special guests: Ann Shoket, Ciara
- Top Model in Action: Bre Scullark (season 5)
The Amazing Model Race
First aired April 22, 2009
- Featured photographers: Paschoal Rodriguez, Daniel Klajmic
- Special guests: Fernanda Motta, Helô Pinheiro
- Top Model in Action: Eva Pigford (season 3)
Let's Go See The City
First aired April 29, 2009
- Featured photographer: Nigel Barker
- Special guests: Paulo Borges, Fabienne Muzy, Adriana Degreas, Caio Campos, Clo Orozco, Cris Barros, Oskar Metsavaht, Adriana Bozon, Vanessa Da Silveira, Adrianne Curry
- Top Model in Action: Samantha Potter (season 11)
Take Me To The Jungle
First Aired: May 6, 2009
- Featured photographer: Tyra Banks
- Special guests: Juliana Leite, Eduardo Ramos, Ara Vartanian, Ann Shoket
- Top Model in Action: Yaya DaCosta (season 3)
America's Next Top Model Is...
First aired May 13, 2009
- Featured photographers: Jim De Yonker, Nigel Barker
- Featured commercial director: Jay Manuel
- Special guests: Amir Slama, McKey Sullivan, Maíra Vieira, Fernanda Motta, Ann Shoket
- Top Model in Action: Fatima Siad (season 10)
Cycle 12 Finale Party (Reunion)
The reunion aired May 13, 2009 on The Tyra Banks Show and was the third one after seasons 5 and 10. It was graduation themed and all the girls (except for Sandra, who didn't attend) wore bikinis. The girls were voted yearbook-style as follows:
| Model | Yearbook Title |
|---|---|
| Allison | Most likely to star in a Twilight movie |
| Aminat | Most "banging" body |
| Celia | "Fiercest" personal style |
| Fo | Most likely to be on a "Guess my race" show |
| London | Most likely to bring a bible on a date |
| Natalie | Most likely to be mistaken for a Gossip Girl |
Various girls were interviewed after their vote was revealed. Fo revealed she had met her father, whom she didn't know was black until she was six and coined the phrase "blaxican" at 12. Celia got her one featurette about her personal style and London went on to preach on the streets of New York City. Tyra also discussed Allison's nosebleeding picture of her and Tyra made a montage of her and Robert Pattinson. Natalie revealed she suffered from panic attacks and hypochondria.
Tyra brought a general from the US Army to discuss her positive impact on burnt soldiers and Tahlia did a shoot with a burnt soldier and another burn survivor where they displayed their scars. It was also revealed that Tahlia had become pregnant since the taping of the show. Then elderly people reenacted memorable scenes introduced by Bianca Golden from season 9. Those included Fo's haircut, Celia's rebellion against Tyra and Natalie's and Aminat's face off. Celia said that all things were settled between her and Tahlia and when Tyra said "Don't mess with a girl's money", Celia joked back that Tahlia was messing with hers.
The show ended with Tyra revealing that two contestants had been offered a contract with Nous Model Management by Kenya Knight which were revealed on her show's website as being Allison and Fo.
Summaries
Call-out order
| Order | Episodes | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |||
| 1 | Aminat | Allison | Teyona | Sandra | Tahlia | Fo | Celia | Teyona | Allison | Teyona | Allison | Allison | Teyona | |
| 2 | Natalie | Fo | Celia | Aminat | Teyona | Teyona | Natalie | Fo | Teyona | Allison | Teyona | Teyona | Allison | |
| 3 | Fo | Teyona | Allison | Tahlia | Allison | Tahlia | Teyona | Natalie | Fo | Aminat | Aminat | Aminat | ||
| 4 | Allison | London | Natalie | Fo | Natalie | Aminat | Fo | Celia | Celia | Celia | Celia | |||
| 5 | Tahlia | Celia | London | Celia | London | Allison | London | Allison | Aminat | Fo | ||||
| 6 | Celia | Nijah | Nijah | Kortnie | Aminat | Natalie | Aminat | Aminat | Natalie | |||||
| 7 | Nijah | Kortnie | Tahlia | London | Celia | London | Allison | London | ||||||
| 8 | London | Natalie | Sandra | Teyona | Fo | Celia | Tahlia | |||||||
| 9 | Teyona | Aminat | Kortnie | Natalie | Sandra | Sandra | ||||||||
| 10 | Kortnie | Tahlia | Aminat | Allison | Kortnie | |||||||||
| 11 | Isabella | Jessica | Fo | Nijah | ||||||||||
| 12 | Jessica | Sandra | Jessica | |||||||||||
| 13 | Sandra | Isabella | ||||||||||||
- The contestant was eliminated
- The contestant won the competition
- In episode 1, the group of 21 girls was reduced to 13 that would move on to the main competition. This first call-out does not reflect their performance that first week.
- Episode 8 was the recap episode
Photo Shoot Guide
- Episode 1 photo shoot (casting): Goddess profile/type of goddess
- Episode 2 photo shoot: Childhood games
- Episode 3 photo shoot: Lighting oneself in a warehouse
- Episode 4 photo shoot: Couture New York City sight-seeing
- Episode 5 photo shoot: Ellis Island immigrants
- Episode 6 photo shoot: Beauty shots evoking different colors
- Episode 7 Commercial: CoverGirl Micro Mineral foundation
- Episode 9 photo shoot: Crazed Ciara fans tangled in wires
- Episode 10 photo shoot: Embodying Carmen Miranda on a Favella
- Episode 11 photo shoot: Swimsuits on a tourist beach
- Episode 12 photo shoot: Exotic birds
- Episode 13 photo shoot & Commercial: CoverGirl Outlast Lipstain print ad and commercial & Seventeen Magazine covers
Makeovers
- Allison – Wavy blonde extensions
- Aminat – Naomi Campbell inspired wavy extensions
- Celia – Cut short and dyed platinum blonde
- Fo – Pixie cut
- Jessica – Cut to shoulder length, Reddish highlights and volumized
- Kortnie – Dyed mahogany red
- London – Agyness Deyn inspired cut and dyed platinum blonde
- Natalie – No makeover
- Nijah – Wavy black weave
- Sandra – Bleached blonde and cut shorter
- Tahlia – Golden blonde wavy weave
- Teyona – Jheri curl weave; later, wavy black weave
Post-Top Model careers
- Celia Ammerman has modeled for the New York Post[3] and Vogue Italia.[4] She has also been featured on Racked.com,[5] in the September 2009 issue of Allure[6] and in Short Hair.[7] She has appeared on The Tyra Banks Show. She has also walked in New York Fashion Week 2011 for Marlon Globel.
- Teyona Anderson was signed was Elite Model Management in New York and Cape Town. She is currently signed with Mega Models in Miami and Base Model Agency in Cape Town under the name "Asia Anderson".
- Aminat Ayinde has modeled for Zulu Rose[8] and walked in the This Day/Arise: African Fashion Collection S/S 10 show.[9] She is signed to MMG Models in New York. She modeled on season 2 of Project Runway All Stars for Emilio Sosa. She also modeled again on season 14 for Edmond Nelson for his finale collection wearing his first look.
- Tahlia Brookins has modeled for People.[10]
- Kortnie Coles is currently signed with Wilhelmina Models in New York City and Models 1 in London.
- Isabella Falk is currently signed with Elite Model Management in Chicago under her real name, Kelly Marie.[11]
- Nijah Harris has modeled for That Girl.[12]
- Allison Harvard was signed with Nous Model Management in Los Angeles. She competed in season 17 among other previous contestants, finishing in second place to Lisa D'Amato. She appeared in the final episode of season 21. She has walked in New York Fashion Week 2012 for Malan Breton, Gemma Khang, and Richie Rich. She also walked in Philippine Fashion Week for Michael Cinco. She is the face of Cinco's fragrance "Impalpable". She also modeled for Bench in "Bench Universe". She runs an art and photography studio in Brooklyn.[13] On September 21, 2012, it was announced that Harvard would be making her acting debut as the character Carina in the independent feature film Insensate.[14] On October 6, 2012, Harvard made an appearance in an episode of "I Am Meg: Own the World in Style", a Philippines TV modeling competition.[15]
- London Levi appeared in the October 2009 issue of Playboy.[16]
- Sandra Nyanchoka was signed with Major Model Management in New York.[17]
- Natalie Pack is currently signed with NEXT Model Management in Miami and Ford Models in Los Angeles.[18] She has modeled for Jockey[19] and BL!SSS' July 2009 issue.[20] She walked for Billabong[21] and Dona Daneshi's "I Am Mystic".[22] She is Miss California USA 2012 and competed in Miss USA 2012.[23]
- Fo Porter is currently signed with Nous Model Management in Los Angeles.[24] She has modeled for Revolve clothing[25] and Nylon.[26] She has appeared in advertising campaigns for Paul Mitchell, H&M, American Eagle, Abercrombie & Fitch, Reebok, Nike, Billabong,[24] Target and Payless.[27] She was featured in the music videos for Justin Timberlake's "Tunnel Vision" and Usher's "Good Kisser".
- Jessica Santiago is currently signed with Ford Models in Los Angeles.[28] She participated in Nuestra Belleza Latina, but was eliminated before the contestants were chosen. She also competed in Model Latina where she finished as the runner-up. She was a contestant in Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2011, and placed as the second runner-up.[29]
References
- ^ "Season Program Rankings (Through 5/17)". ABC Television Network. May 19, 2009. Archived from the original on January 31, 2010.
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- ^ "Aminat – Zulu Rose".
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- ^ "Tahlia – People Magazine".
- ^ "Isabella – Elite Model Management (Chicago)".
- ^ "Nijah – That Girl Magazine".
- ^ Ward, Kate (May 12, 2011). "'Top Model All-Stars' cast reported: Lisa D'Amato, Isis King in; Jade out". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on June 24, 2011. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
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- ^ "I Am Meg". I Am Meg. October 6, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
- ^ Photo by Michael J Laudini for Playboy Magazine October 2009.
- ^ "Sandra – Major Model Management (New York City)".
- ^ "Natalie – Ford Models (Los Angeles)".
- ^ "Natalie – Jockey".
- ^ "Natalie – BL!SSS, July 2009".
- ^ "Natalie – Billabong".
- ^ "Natalie – Dona Daneshi". The Daily Telegraph. London. May 1, 2009.
- ^ "Natalie Pack Crowned Miss California USA 2012". Retrieved January 9, 2012.
- ^ a b "Fo – Nous Model Management (Los Angeles)". Archived from the original on March 28, 2008.
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- ^ "Wanna be on top?: Fo Porter in Payless Commercial". topmodelobsession.blogspot.com. Retrieved August 13, 2011.
- ^ "Jessica – Ford Models (Los Angeles)".
- ^ "Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2011 – Vota por tu candidata preferida –". Primerahora.com. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
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