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7th - Cycle 10 (2008)



This cycle acted as a 'soft-reboot' to the franchise, the team headed back to NYC for the first time since cycle 3 and ditched Twiggy from the panel for Paulina Porizkova. Casting saw the girls attend an all girls preparatory school where they had to do classes in posing with Mr Jay and in runway with Miss J before doing their audition. This was one of the strongest casting episodes from the entire show, we had Dominiques classic "PRI-TTY", Kimberly being a dumb blonde, Stacy-Anns iconic lap dance for Mr Jay and Fatima getting into numerous fights including the iconic "can I call you bitch?"



We also saw Marvita return from cycle 9 who when Fatima was opening up about her female mutilation, calmly came out with "so do you feel less of a woman?"



The girls first runway challenge was a catwalk in time square where Marvita walked the whole runway with her head down nnn... At panel Kimberly suddenly decided she didnt want to be there anymore and blamed it on not wanting to wear designer clothing (we later found out it was because her boyfriend and mother committed suicide not long before filming) and she just left.



Allison and Fatima had this feud that seemed to stem from Fatima saying Allisons butt were bigger than hers Allison replied "thanks for saying that to the anorexic girl" and stormed off. Allisons eating habits were brought up a few times, especially when she added A1 sauce (which is like BBQ) to jelly chunks.. Allison then got some barbie dolls out and started taunting Fatima with them by making comments about the black one 'taking it up the back' jdhflfjdh just messy.



Makeovers came and we had some messy ones, Marvita was given that horse main hair weave, Stacey Ann had her hair all chopped and was left with what looked like fluff, Allison was given that awful orange dye job, Katarzyna and Dominique were given the ugliest aunty bob cuts..

Lauren, Fatima and Dominique seemed to be the main catalysts in the drama this cycle, Lauren and Fatima had that huge fight because Lauren had poured Fatimas coffee out.. she made her another coffee in a wine glass and gave the iconic "heres your cup of ****ing coffee you big baby"



Then Dominique had that fight against Lauren, Whitney and Claire for reasons im not even sure.. I think it all stemmed from Claire being woken up by Dominiques alarm clock lmao.. Dominique then accused Whitney of being racist, to which she gave us this iconic line...




After all this and a few episodes later Stacy Ann unfairly got eliminated at the airport and the final 6 flew to Rome. The first thing Anya did was fall out the mini van The girls did their covergirl commercials in Italian which was a complete mess. Lauren couldn't even speak English let alone Italian. None of the girls aced this one... we did get Dominiques iconic "BRAZILIA!"



In the end the final 2 came down to Anya and Whitney and its no secret that Anya was robbed of this win. Whitney had been in the bottom two 5 times and Anya not once. It was a pure robbery!

Sadly in 2016 Kimberly died, supposedly from suicide too.

Cycle ranking: 8/10