The next America's Next Top Model?

The Vogue produced web reality show, Model.Live follows three IMG Models - Austria Alcantara, 16, of the Dominican Republic, Cato van Ee, 19, of Amsterdam and Madeline Kragh, 20, of North Carolina - as they try to become the next Kate Moss. Viewers will follow the girls to castings, fittings and the runway and will even get the chance to interact with them.

Viewers can log on to Model.Live Channel Profile and connect with the models through their profiles. Viewers can also leave comments or submit questions to the girls and purchase clothes and accessories featured in the show.

The series officially starts on August 22, with a new episode launching every Friday over the next 12 weeks. The drama begins in New York City with NY Fashion Week and continues throughout fashion week in London, Milan and Paris.

So far the show lacks all the drama and cheesiness that made America's Next Top Model fun to watch. We see the girls' agents at a "strategy session" which is nothing more than your everyday business meeting- boring! The girls themselves are sweet and innocent-looking; you won't see any trannies here!
I hope the next episodes have more drama or else I'm afraid people will lose interest.

The ANTM tranny talks

Yesterday when I heard that the new season/cycle of America's Next Top Model has a transgendered contestant I thought "Thank God. Finally the show will get interesting." The last, oh, eight seasons have bored me. Bring back the Evas, Brittanys and all the other crazy bitches. Isis was born male but feels that she was "born in the wrong body." She looks pretty enough but when she talks, it is pretty obvious that this chick is a dude. I cannot wait for the ensuing drama. Tyra sure knows how to pick 'em.

America's Next Top Tranny!

US Weekly is reporting that one of the contestants for ANTM Cycle 11 is a pre-op transgender. That sure beats out last season's plus size winner, Whitney! Isis is a 22-year-old former receptionist who says she identifies as female but was born male. Isis was featured as an extra model for the homeless photo shoot last season, and Tyra Banks encouraged her to try out for the show this season.

Think she will have to pose naked?

BTW- Don't you love this ad? It's so over-the-top Tyra ridiculousness. Love it. I cannot wait for the premiere on Sept. 3. BTW- I will be co-blogging about the new cycle on AOL.ca with my co-worker Chris so check back in Sept. for updates!

Whitney Wins 'America's Next Top Model'

So the first plus-sized, um i mean, "full figured" model in the history of the show won the prize. I was shocked because I thought that not only were her pictures mediocre at best, and the judges never liked them, but her walk was horrible. I predicted that Fatima would win but as soon as they kicked her off, I realized that the rules had completely been thrown out the window and that Anya would be done for.
Not to knock Whitney, she can be pretty when she's not sucking in he cheeks looking like Anna Nicole Smith, but Anya actually looked like a model. Her photos were beautiful, her walk was better than Whitney's (though not stellar) and she was a natural.
I believe that Tyra had an agenda since the beginning to have a plus-sized girl win the competition. My co-worker who wrote a blog about it, said that in retrospect, it looked like the producers were making sure Whitney would win because the girls did their go-sees in New York. If they did the go-sees in Italy, there would be no way the designers would be able to find clothes big enough to fit her (you know how those skinny-obsessed Italians are.) We can picture Tyra trumpeting on her talk show about how this season was groundbreaking and because of her, the modeling industry will change forever because a plus-sized model won. Well Tyra, wait until we see if Whitney will actually get real modeling work before you go on your show to talk about her success.