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This week, the competition on AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL becomes a drag for everyone. I mean a real drag...You know that old phrase, “Clothes make the man”? Well, on this episode we learn that clothes can make the man into a woman and vice versa. Clothes can also make (or break) a model’s career. Tune in and see if the girls learn their lesson on how to dress to impress and crossdress for success.
Natasha Kinky
“Do you miss meee?” our resident Ruskie, Natasha, asks her husband Stuart coyly via telephone, from the ANTM Bat Cave. “Do you remember me?” she then adds, curiously, as if perhaps he has more than one Eastern European in his harem to keep track of. He says yes, thankfully, and then mentions that he’s going to put a special guest on the phone. When Natasha perks up and squeals, “I’m gonna hear my baby, first time in three weeks!” I think, she didn’t mention having a child before! Natasha coos, “Hey little baby, hi it’s Mama talking!” There is a loud series of whimpers that I hope are from a pet of some kind. Natasha tears up with emotion, clearly missing her loved ones back home. See, Renee, you’re not the only mother around here.
When Natasha later confesses, “I’m really sad. I’m not bonding with anybody in the house. We would never be friends with each other because we are so different.” Outside, Whitney whispers to Diana how she feels the fact that Natasha married a 40 year old man when she was 18 and couldn’t speak English is “kind of weird.” This observation is juxtaposed with Natasha in the phone room, huskily growling, “I need you, Stuart.” See, now her grammar there was perfect! I guess hubby taught her all the right words she needs to know in America. What a country!
Natasha continues her sexy conversation with her husband by purring, then meowing, and fondling the furniture. I feel slightly uncomfortable, like I wandered onto one of those “Live Girls” webcam peep shows—not that I know what those are even like [gazes guiltily at balance-busting charges for internet porn on credit card statement—of course I’m joking, friends…C’mon, you know me better than that! What kind of indecent human being do you think I am, I would never pay for porn!].
With Renee looking on, with her ever-present cigarette, Diana asks if Whitney thinks Natasha was a mail-order bride “for her visa? It’s creepy.” Whitney thinks it’s “gross.” Maybe it’s the behind-the-back Mail Order Bride Bash that bothers me, but I am actually starting to feel some sympathy for Natasha. Maybe she really loves Stuart! So he was 40 and she was 18 when they met; it could be worse, he could have been 80 and she could have been 14! Natasha then murmurs into the phone, “Will you be gentle with me?” So, yeah…getting a little creepier now…She then moans and is so into her phone session that she accidentally pushes a button that beeps in ecstacy. Okay, starting to see the gross here now (although that may be because since we can’t see Stuart, I’m picturing Abe Vigoda in his place).
Speaking of “gross” that’s exactly how Diana describes the bowl of tuna she’s scarfing down. “I need some real food,” she clamors, and Whitney asks if she’s still determined to lose 10 pounds. Diana says yes, and Whitney goes, “I’ve got to get on that too.” What sacrilege is this? The plus size models on a diet? I thought the whole beauty of being a plus-size model in the first place is that you wouldn’t have to be on no stinkin’ diet? At any rate, Whitney and Diana appear to have forged a really strong friendship, and to paraphrase Whitney, they support and keep things in perspective for one another in a house full of skinny bitches.
What Not to Wear: Top Model Edition
Like the worst fortune cookie ever, TyraMail says, “Looking your worst can be the best thing that ever happened to you.” ”I win this one!” Jael jokes. Oh no, Jael, this would be my challenge to win [glances down at cat pajamas]. The girls go to the showroom for clothing line Kasil, and they meet Cathy Gould, director of Elite Model Management. Sarah ponders being so close to someone so powerful in modeling—this week should have also included lip exercises for effective butt smooching. Cathy has brought along one the beeyatches she has turned out, Claudia Mason; the Elite model flashes a goofy smile, but is definitely a recognizable model in the industry.
Claudia states that the reason they are there today is that, since it’s very important for models to know how to dress, they will be helping the girls to sharpen up their sartorial skills. Dionne is still smarting from last panel, when the judges sharply criticized her outfit, or as she so delicately puts it, “They chewed my ass out.” She’s determined to listen and learn today, however.
Claudia and Cathy have pulled some “examples” for the girls to “showcase.” The girls change into the outfits and reappear before Cathy and Claudia, and are asked to share their opinions of their new ensembles. Natasha says, “I like this outfit very much. I always think you should wear the skinny jeans, tight shirt so the people can see your body.” Whitney says she loves the accessories they put on her—um yeah, the big Wilma Flintstone necklace and gigantic gold teardrop hoops together? Getting suspicious yet? Jaslene thinks her retro Purple Rain t-shirt and bright plaid trousers is “hip” and versatile enough for a casual meeting or lunch.
Cathy then reveals that was all another dirty, stinkin’ ANTM trick—the outfits are all examples of how not to dress. [sad Wah wah wah waaah horn] “Oh snap,” Dionne exclaims, admitting they were looking kind of “jacked up and busted.” They explain what’s wrong and why. For example, Diana’s big shapeless shirt looks like a “potato sack” so they have her take it off and toss it aside to reveal just a plain white form-fitting sleeveless tee inside.
The outfit Natasha loved is berated by Cathy and Claudia for being way too tight all over and making her look more like she’s “walking the streets than walking the runway.” “But I make it work,” Natasha says with her inimitable mind-blowing spin (I think she’s missing her true calling—she should be a PR person rather than a model), “All de girls they vill like their outfits just because models you should always like the clothing they put on you.” She punctuates her speech with a smile that rivals Sanjaya’s on AMERICAN IDOL for Craziest Frozen Rictus Grin Award.
Cathy and Claudia look momentarily blown away by Natasha’s pure, uncompromising clinging to her own opinion, then continue with the demonstration. They start telling the girls to swap clothing items, like Natasha’s tight pants for Renee’s bubble skirt, Brittany’s top for Jael’s, Whitney’s necklace goes on Diana, Jaslene’s hideous yellow plaid pants get discarded and she get’s Sarah’s trousers, etc. In the end, the lesson, as Dionne observes, is that “Simple is all you need.” Are you listening, wannabe models and girls planning to audition for future cycles?
Big Trouble
Wow, it’s been almost ten minutes on this show without a single instance of Renee being a bitch! Wait for it…in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2…”Do you honestly think there’s gonna be a plus size model on the cover of Vogue? Renee says to Whitney. Renee claims that she wants it to happen but still doesn’t think it’s ever going to actually happen. Even Jael, who overhears Renee, looks over at Renee like, What is your problem, crazy straitjacket manga-drawin’ beeyatch from the butthole of Beelzebub? Or maybe I’m projecting again.
Whitney, for her part, just lies in bed trying to ignore Renee’s outright, literally in-your-face rudeness, which Renee tries to pass off as “honesty.” Whitney keeps up her confidence, declaring, “I could be on the cover of Vogue magazine, wearing a size 8 to 10.” Considering that over 50% of American women now wear size 14 and above, Whitney’s clocking in at positively petite in comparison. No more tuna for you!
Why is Renee still talking? No one seems to want to hear it from her anymore. Finally Whitney tells Renee to shut up and get out of her face. Whitney then recounts her exchange with Renee to Diana. Renee’s former bitching buddy is incensed that Renee seemed to be implying that plus-sizers are “not real models” and says she doesn’t want to listen to Renee anymore. She finally learned that it’s not fun to be at the sharp end of Renee’s poking stick. “I’m mad,” Diana hollers, with a loud “Oh ho ho ho” that only needs an eye patch and a parrot to be the ultimate pirate laugh.
A Clothes Call
The girls report to a Sears warehouse where two identical male mannequins stand in identical frozen poses. Renee thinks “those are really realistic-looking mannequins” before they spring to life before their very eyes. Luckily, this is ANTM, and not an episode of DOCTOR WHO, so these are not killer mannequins from outer space, but twin models Lawrence and Gregory Zarian.
Because this week the girls learned how to dress themselves, the challenge today will involve creating “fashionable looks for an in-store display” in which they’ll be the mannequins. For the challenge the girls will be split into 3 groups: Group 1 consists of Dionne, Sarah, and Renee; Group 2 includes Natasha, Jael, and Whitney; Group 3 is Diana, Brittany, and Jaslene. They’ll have racks of clothing, accessories, and shoes from Sears to work with, plus props (I pray someone uses the big-eyed squirrel!). The outfits will be judged individually and also based on how all three girls look together. With outfits from Sears. Did they mention Sears yet? How many times can they fit Sears into this segment? If they say Sears one more time my brains are going to dribble out of my ears and nostrils.
They will only get 20 minutes to complete the challenge, and Lawrence stresses that at the end of the countdown, the girls must be in their pose on the platform or they will be disqualified. Easy enough right? So the girls are let loose, every group working in different ways. Dionne says that since she worked in retail before, she decided to pick out the outfits for all her team members. Oh so the girl the judges said had the quintessential “Mall Look” probably actually worked there! That explains that mystery. Sarah in the meantime is grabbing all kinds of crazy props, umbrella, flowers, etc.; because she was so busy doing this, she asks Dionne “Which one is my outfit?” then puts on whatever Dionne tells her.
It’s mad rush down to the last few seconds. The Zarians count down and the girls must be in place. As everyone strikes poses in front of their displays, Natasha tries to tell Whitney, “You should be on the podium.” Whitney gets a little attitudinal and ignores Natasha; Whitney and Jael even try to shush her. The Zarians go around to evaluate the displays. Every group has made a sign for themselves bearing their names. Group 1 calls themselves the “Spring Monarchs.” Lawrence thinks there’s a lot going on in their display (the props, Sarah?) but likes that “each girl chose colors outfit that complimented your skin tone and hair coloring.” I find it ironic that Dionne chose a tank top that looks nearly identical to the one panel hated last judging!
¢ Entonces, las “Tres Flores”! The Zarians like that the colors of each girls outfits compliments them individually, however the whole group doesn’t look good together (true, Brittany’s olive and khaki outfit looks out of place amongst Diana and Jaslene’s Easter pastels).
Lastly, they look at “Aphrodity’s Box” which is wrong for multiple reasons. The spelling is wrong, first off, which seems to offend Lawrence, plus the very idea of “Aphrodity’s Box” sounds borderline obscene for anyone with an imagination for symbolic language. Natasha, as expected, works her deluded spin magic yet again, explaining, “When you name something you can spell it as wrong or as right as you like.” Wow, how I wish Natasha was my lawyer!
The brothers really like their display, however; and herein lies the tragedy. They mention that the girls really need to listen to the rules, because they would have chosen “Aphrodity’s Box” as the best group and Whitney specifically as the winner of this challenge, but the whole group is disqualified because Whitney was not on podium. See, the young people today, they just don’t listen! [shakes old man cane angrily in their direction] Whitney acknowledges that she blew it, “I basically just gave that one away.”
So by default, Spring Monarchs is the best group, and the individual winner is someone they feel selected the best outfit to flatter their body, skin type and coloring…Dionne looks hopeful, but the girl they name is Sarah. Dionne looks pissed; she did, after all, pick the outfits. The Zarians also like that she “listened when it came to accessories.” Now Renee looks pissed (when doesn’t she though) because she apparently is the one who picked out accessories when Sarah was off grabbing umbrellas and squirrels. “She didn’t do any of the work,” Renee recalls later, but Sarah chirps cheerily to the brothers how she just loved the blue when she saw it and knew it would compliment her hair blah blah.
Two out of three “Spring Monarchs” look like they want to squash Sarah like a little bug; Dionne especially, “I dressed her so I think I deserve a little recognition around here.” Sarah is “shocked” that she won but apparently so “excited” that she has gotten a temporary amnesia that made her forget to credit anyone else with her success. Her prize is the ability to do this week’s photo shoot twice—she’ll shoot her regular amount of frames, get to sit down with Mr. Jay and look them over to see what’s working, then shoot again.
But Does She Eat Cats?
Whitney, meanwhile, is “sick to [her] stomach” thinking she could have won this competition but chose to ignore Natasha even when she was giving her a “valuable piece of information.” Whitney just says that she has a tendency to tune Natasha out since she has a “tendency to talk a lot.” Even after returning home, Natasha is troubled that no one would listen to her or give her the chance to speak up, and yes I’m starting to actually feel bad for her. I love aliens, in fact my favorite show as a kid was ALF.
Curiously Whitney’s favorite subject seems to be Natasha’s marriage, and she is whispering to Renee that “Nobody knows whether she’s really married or not ‘cuz she doesn’t have a wedding ring and they’ve been married for three or four years. There is some suspect stuff going on, I think.” It’s one thing to make a crack or two, but Whitney seems overly preoccupied with something that’s not her business anymore. What is she planning to do, call the INS?
Like the old comedian Rodney Dangerfield, Natasha feels she is getting “no respect” from anyone in the household. She calls Stuart for support (and to his credit he doesn’t sound like a creepy cradle robber but very kind, nurturing and, dare I say, paternal), crying, “Why are they picking on me now?” He says he thought she was getting along with everyone, and she says she thought she was too. I guess her powers of self-delusion are running out! He gently tells her to be tough now, and she sobs, “If everybody would pick on you every day you wouldn’t be tough.” Aww, maybe it’s because I’ve poured all my hate into Renee, but I really do feel bad for Natasha now.
From Drama Queens to Drag Kings
Dionne calls out TyraMail, and Sarah calls out for her to open it up to “see what we be doin’ tomorrow yo,” aaand with that one line she’s officially killed the run of secret black people on ANTM. Dionne reads out, “Dude, where’s my lipstick?” The girls are thinking there will be some boys involved tomorrow. And they’re right, kind of. Natasha has been listening to panel, and at home she has bought tons of magazines and has been studying posing and facial expressions diligently. She hopes this will help her to be better at the photo shoot tomorrow.
Jay Manuel meets up with the girls at says that today they will style themselves for a “very sleek photo shoot.” The girls rush to the racks and get changed. They leave clothes all messy and on the ground. That’s not the only thing a mess. Jay thinks they still don’t have a hang of styling themselves, so “maybe some accessories will do the trick.” In walk a gaggle of guys, some “male models” that get the girls are riled up. Of course there’s a catch, Mr. Jay says that the real challenge is that the girls will be wearing the guy’s clothes and the guys will be wearing the girl’s clothes for this shoot. The male models, however, have a leg up on the girls, though. They are all professional drag queens.
Backstage, the make up artists do an awesome job transforming our girls into guys. Renee says it’s “mayhem” back there because she’ll look at a guy and it’s actually Natasha, or she’ll look at woman who’s “actually a dude, it was confusing.” Jael’s not confused. She takes one look at her big, Ned Flanders ‘stache and says, “I’m a hot dude!” Whitney is tickled to be a frat boy, since she’s from Dartmouth.
Jaslene will be the first to go. Her character is a yacht-loving guy. Backstage, she checks out her nautical partner as she is “getting her hair did” and, coincidentally, her crotch pixilated! We need a tuck over here, stat! But now it’s time to go in front of the cameras, and Jaslene is transformed into a cool, casual guy, confidently calm with his, um, very tall girlfriend. “Jaslene commanded that set, “Mr. Jay says, impressed that Jaslene was directing, making suggestions to her partner on how they should interact, stepping up her game. Looks like there’s a new “Mr. J” in town, and that’s Jaslene.
Brittany is frickin’ UNRECOGNIZEABLE as the redneck hunter from the “outdoorsy couple.” Brittany and her drag gal pal are visions in plaid. And Brittany is eerily good at slouching into masculine body language, tilting her head back, putting her arm around her babe. She has the set cracking up, and I half expect her crack open a beer then crack open a deer’s head. Jay is giggling like a schoolgirl, but Brittany doesn’t even “flinch” and he commends her for it, adding, “not only were they good shots, it was entertaining as hell.”
Renee is the glam rock star. I am slightly disturbed at how attractive I find Renee as man. Seriously, my head is going to explode, I’m downright cornfused, but wow Renee makes a good looking guy! Mr. Jay advises her to clench down on her jaw for a more masculine look, and during the shoot is impressed with the variety she’s giving as she poses confidently with her backstage betty. Renee’s evil but even I gotta admit she is rocking the “glam rock couple” shoot.
Jael is the hippy dippy Mr. Natural of the bohemian couple. Her partner looks oddly like Tila Tequila at some angles. “Jael looks like a crackhead,” Diana quips from the sidelines. Jael is dancing around, and true to her character, believes that “when I allow my soul to be captured in a photograph I am actually opening myself inside out.” Did someone drop acid into the spirit gum they used to stick that moustache on? Mr. Jay calls her a “crazy Cocoa Puff.” Are they a sponsor now too?
Dionne, who I think looks strangely like Chris Rock, is part of the “power couple.” I think she does an excellent job acting like a man, but Jay wants her posing to be more “dynamic.” Dionne has some difficulty making this happen. Her reference point is magazine ads and catalogues were the men aren’t really doing much but standing and looking butch. Mr. Jay doesn’t want her to limit herself; he still doesn’t think she’s learned to step up her Top Model game.
Sarah gets double shoot. She is part of the “rocker couple” and as it turns out, she needed those extra frames. Her posing is too, well, posy, with hips turned out and overly feminine body language. Renee points out to Diana that Sarah did not pick out her outfit, and “If I was Dionne, I’d be pissed as hell.” Dionne is sitting on the floor, seething, thinking as she watches Sarah shoot her second 60 frames, “This should have been mine.”
Whitney struggles during her shoot as the frat boy of the “collegiate couple.” Jay thinks she’s not letting go enough, is too “guarded” and “awkward.” Jay says she’s beautiful and has a great body, “I just wish I could throw someone else in it to use it.” Ouch!
Natasha is the one stepping up her A Game. All this time backstage she has been in character, practicing her baller stance, and getting it down pat. Dionne gives Natasha props for getting the hang of hip hop after Natasha asks her for tips on how she should act and speak. She even gets proactive with the styling, by taking foil from a chewing gum package and making bling for her teeth, which the make up artist says was a “brilliant” move on her part. Move over K-Fed! Natasha can kick your ass seven ways from Sunday. Everyone is crying laughing, but totally impressed, with Natasha’s commitment to this shoot. She is absolutely transformed, moving, dancing, and embodying her character. You know the definition of a balla…That’s her! N-A-T-A-to the-SHA! “That girl knows how to impress people,” Mr. Jay says, bowled over. Natasha feeds off the positive energy and enjoys having an audience, adding that she enjoys the way modeling gives her the possibility to be so many different characters that aren’t possible in real life.
Diana, unfortunately, is not an attractive guy at all. She didn’t think it would be “all that difficult to pose as a guy” but her partner in the “red carpet couple” outshines her as she just stands there stiffly. Jay says it’s “not interesting” and even though he knows she’s trying, “it looks like you’re bored with it.” Jay asks her to tell him why she wants to be AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL and Diana replies, “Just ‘cuz.” Mr. Jay points out that if he went to her and said he wanted to be a model “just ‘cuz” would she want to hire him? He points out that her lack of self-awareness as to why she is in the competition is perhaps indicative of a lack of passion. Diana, still in man make up, goes back and weeps. Whitney pep talks her into not letting them see her down, because they have much to overcome as the only full-figured models in the competition. Diana is inconsolable. She knows this could send her home. There, there, don’t cry, Big Guy.
The Biggest Bottom Two in the History of ANTM
Another female who looks hot as a guy? Tyra! In this week’s theme photo, Tyra is one studly girly man. How you doin’? Back in reality, Tyra is a cute schoolmarm this week, in tight bun and wooly pinafore. She welcomes the final nine and introduces the judges, Nigel Barker, J. Alexander, Twiggy, and Cathy Gould from Elite, who we met earlier. No time to waste, it’s on to evals.
Dionne strides out stilettos and tasteful black tank top, hair slicked back. No mall girl this week. Tyra and the panel approve of the change, noting that finally she looks like a model this week “from head to toe.” This week’s style lesson came at the perfect time. Time for their drag pics, and her “power couple” pic is deemed “amazing” by Twiggy and “so wrong it’s right” by Nigel. Nigel thinks Dionne’s a whole new person standing before them today, changed for the better. When Dionne says she learned how to be a man from Miss J., and Tyra jokes “the drag queens learn how to be women from me.”
Jaslene walks up and Tyra observes she “always got to have an accessory…Girl you got a guitar on your waist,” referring to the huge belt buckle Cha Cha’s sporting. In true Jaslene style, she plays a song for them on her belt buckle. “Nautical couple” picture time—Jaslene is such a cute guy! Twiggy, stunned, says, “you look like a fella!” Tyra loves that the picture looks so “effortless” that she didn’t try to hard to act like a guy, it seemed to come from within, naturally, like any man walking down the street with his girl.
Whitney’s “collegiate couple” turns out to be her breasts. They are the first things the panel notices in the picture, though Nigel says she does look like a man in the close up. Cathy unfortunately thinks something in Whitney’s face looks “uncomfortable.” Tyra also thinks Whitney was doubting herself from the photos adding Mr. Jay’s notes that she was the “worst of the day” because she could not let go and have fun. Tyra thinks she lucks into her best shots, and should have more control by now.
Tyra thinks Jael as the “bohemian hippy” is almost typecasting; but the couple photo is not a hit. The panel laughs, at not with, Jael; Nigel thinks without the moustache, the photo would just look like two girls. Twiggy thinks it’s the first picture where her eye is drawn to the girl partner, and not our guys. Tyra says there was not one shot where it looked like a man’s body language.
Tyra points out that Sarah won the challenge [cue seething Dionne shot] and got double the shots this week for her “rocker couple” pic. It paid off with a shot the panel loves—except toughy Cathy, who still thinks Sarah looks like a girl. Tyra says that the whole first batch Sarah still looked like a girl, so, “Thank God you won the challenge.” Nope. Thank Dionne.
As Renee walks up in time for her “glam rock couple” pic, I’ve figured out why I am so hot for her as a dude—it’s because she looks like the lovechild of Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Ewan McGregor from Velvet Goldmine! Nigel likes the Linda Evangelista-esque androgyny, Twiggy thinks the angle is great for Renee’s face, Miss J. is impressed that there is even the illusion of an Adam’s apple going on. Tyra notes the tightness in the mouth that she thinks is very common in men (she demonstrates by nearly wrestling Nigel’s jaw off).
Diana’s “red carpet couple” photo is stolen by the cute queen in the non, I think, whose body language is so pretty and playful, it stands in stark contrast to Diana’s stiffness. The panel finds 80 different ways to describe her face as “dead” and then Tyra reads Jay’s notes, which mention that Diana needs to discover why she wants to be America’s Next Top Model since her only answer was the incredibly lame “Just ‘cuz.” Diana is mad at herself for answering that way, but it doesn’t make up for the “lack of passion,” “lackluster photos,” and “hohum performance” that Jay observed.
The panel loves Brittany’s “outdoorsy couple”; Twiggy expresses love for Brittany’s “body shape…the arm on the leg [and] half-lidded eyes” with such adoration, methinks I’m not the only with a strange girl crush on our man-ladies. Everyone shares a laugh over the huge man hands on the “girl” in the picture; Miss J. cracks a joke, “You know what they say about big hands…Big gloves.” Oh Miss J., you slay me!
Natasha’s “hip-hop couple” photo has the room erupting in delighted laughter. She has the whole playa pose down pat, from the toothpick in her gilded teeth to the crotch grab. This week Natasha is getting real compliments, not criticisms she has to spin. Twiggy loves that Natasha brings “a wonderful joyous spirit and sense of humor” to the picture; Tyra sees the evidence that Natasha has been studying magazines like she was told. Nigel, however, notices that “every week your head is like this” and he demonstrates her upside-down face. Remember what I said last week? Full-time upside-down model. I wasn’t kidding. They commend her for taking the initiative to create the teeth from foil, and Nigel says she’s the only person who can stand in front of a room of people, boast about themselves and still seem charming. Well, what about Tyra? Oh wait, he said still seem charming.
After deliberations, altercation, and much frustration, Tyra brings our man-ladies back. Tyra hands the photos back in the following order: Natasha, Dionne, Brittany, Jaslene, Sarah, Renee, and Jael. This sadly leaves the two full-figured friends in the Bottom Two, holding hands tightly for support. Tyra says it was always her dream to have two plus-sized models in the competition together, so she was pleased when she found two strong full-figured contenders. Tyra says that Diana is beautiful but the judges don’t see “fire” or “passion” when they look at her; Whitney is a woman who “loves herself, knows she is fine” but is unable to capture that in a photo.
Ultimately, it’s Whitney who will go on. Although she’s staying, Whitney looks truly crushed to see her friend go. She hugs Diana with real grief on her face, and tells Diana that she loves her. As Tyra hands the photo to Whitney, she says that Whitney is an “amazing representation: an Ivy League, beautiful, strong, full-figured woman; show us keeping you this week was the right decision.”
Tyra sees Diana off by telling her that she needs to embrace herself and know that she is “so amazing just the way that you are.” The girls all run up for a tackling hug, but Whitney looks the most upset. Diana cries as she packs, saying she’ll miss Whitney the most, since they were the closest in the house (making the producers positioning the both of them in the bottom two this week especially cruel). She says that she’s glad Whitney is staying to represent them both. She congratulates the future winner of ANTM, whoever that may be, but she promises she won’t give up and we’ll see her again.
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Great recap. I knew you were going to use "Transamerica" for the title. 
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