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Tyra Banks

I have a confession to make: I am obsessed with America's Next Top Model. Or, I used to be. The show used to be about fashion and how to communicate that fashion artisically. But every season has strayed further and further from that mantra. Now, thanks to Tyra Banks' blossoming ego, the competition is more about respecting Tyra than actually being a good model. The girls who are obsessed with Tyra Banks, who cry and scream when they see her, tend to last longer and even win over others who think of Tyra as she is: a person.
Great model after great model has been turned away from the show because she doesn't profess her love to The Great One (Tyra Banks, of course). But maybe that's a little unfair. I mean, every aspiring model should love Tyra Banks.

Tyra has conquered every modeling problem in the world. She's fallen down, she's twisted her ankle, she's had her hair burned off by a freak firestorm right before a runway show (well maybe not, but if a contestant on America's Next Top Model had all of her hair burned off, Tyra would pull out a story to up the contestant's). Nobody has worked harder, or overcome more in life than Tyra Banks. Nobody.

Let's face it: Every photo shoot is all about Ms. Tyra Banks, even when it doesn't relate in the slightest. (You don't know what's it's like to be homeless, Tyra. I'm sorry. Putting dirt on your face and pretending to sleep on a city street while being watched by a camera crew does not give you an accurate portrayal of what homeless life is like.)

What happened to the modeling competition, specifically the high-fashion modeling competition? The America's Next Top Model judges stress over and over that they are looking for girls who are edgy and can work European runways, yet the contestants are given challenges that test their abilities to sell products in an infomercial-like setting. I know a model's suppossed to be versatile, but come on.

An edgy, high-fasion model shouldn't be sent home because she's not the best public speaker. Yes, you have to know how to book a job, but hawking food items in front of a camera has no place in the fashion world. It's like saying stripping and modeling are similar, which, as my fellow ANTM fans all know, Tyra Banks would crucify you for saying. But is it just me, or is stripping closer to modeling than smiling on an infomercial?
Snap out of it Tyra; you need a time-out!