'America's Next Top Model': Fierceness, fierceness

There was a fair amount of foreshadowing last night that Aimee would be sent home. No. 1: The girls complimented her on how beautiful her skin was, which she accepted with grateful incredulity.  Typically, of course, the girl who brags that she has this competition in the bag is the one to be sent home that episode, but sometimes it's just the girl who has a random amount of screen time.  No. 2: Not that she was asked to, but Aimee, after hearing about Anya's nude photo shoot, professed that due to her Mormon upbringing, she would never want to pose nude. The never-nudes NEVER win Top Model.  And  No. 3, it seemed like she was destined to go home because it looks like the producers are eliminating all the pacifists in the house. Watch your back, Stacy Ann!

Fatima, Whitney and Dominique thus far had been painted as the main antagonists on "ANTM," but last night Claire, Lauren and even Anya got into the mix, ganging up on Dominique. Dominique has been pretty obnoxious so far this cycle, but you had to feel bad for her last night as Claire admitted that the reason she was friends with Lauren and Whitney was because they too hated Dominique. The three of them sat around talking about Dominique as she lay in bed, and continued to do so even after she asked them politely to stop. 

It was a turning point for Claire, who thus far has been painted as a front-runner in the competition, but she came off badly last night, remarkably immature for a woman who was still pumping milk for her daughter at home (what happened to it after she was done?)  To boot, her "embodiment" of country music in the photo shoot came off poorly. Perhaps she should have tried the technique Tyra taught earlier in the episode and mimicked achy, breaky breasts.

-- Claire Zulkey

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Comments

[thorswitch]

I really have a hard time feeling too sorry for Dominique when it comes to the girls talking about her while she was in the room. Yes, it was childish of them, but Dominique is just unbelievable at times. First is wasn't her fault that she missed her chance to make a phone call (on last week's episode) even though everyone else knew there was a list and knew to check it and be at the phone room at the right time.

For some reason, though, Dominique seemed to think this was Whitney's fault since she made of the schedule. Huh? Then on last night's show the other girls were upset about her alarm clock having gone off *4* times before anyone needed to be up because Dominique admittedly didn't know how to set it properly. She pretty much said that she didn't consider it her problem if her alarm was waking them up and that she didn't get why they were upset with her.

If I had to live with someone like that for any length of time, I might find myself being at least tempted to resorting to childish tactics, just to give her an idea of what it feels like to have someone doing something that's causing you a disruption and then claim it's not their problem. Yeesh. So far, Dominique has shown herself to be supremely arrogant (as I read at "Television Without Pity," she needs to remember that the reason Tyra made a special space for her in this season's cast wasn't because she had tied with someone for the first slot, but because she tied for the 13th slot!), and even though she's caused a considerable amount of dissent in the house, NOTHING has ever been her fault.

The sooner she gets to go home, the better. IMO anway - YMMV