12:54 pm - 11/20/2008
Chatting with America's Next Top Model
Whitney's reign of terror is over!
Which big winner said this?
After becoming "America's Next Top Model's" 11th winner, Brittany McKey Sullivan chatted with journalists on a conference call about the competition and life after it. Here were a few highlights from the discussion:
Which big winner said this?
On Tyra Banks paying for Isis' gender reassignment surgery:
I was so happy, words cannot express it. Isis has had a really hard life and to think that we're the same age is just unbelievable because she seems wise beyond her years. Something so great is going to happen to her and she gets to be really what she wants to be. Nobody deserves it more than her.
I was so happy, words cannot express it. Isis has had a really hard life and to think that we're the same age is just unbelievable because she seems wise beyond her years. Something so great is going to happen to her and she gets to be really what she wants to be. Nobody deserves it more than her.
After becoming "America's Next Top Model's" 11th winner, Brittany McKey Sullivan chatted with journalists on a conference call about the competition and life after it. Here were a few highlights from the discussion:
On what it was like transitioning from an athletic tomboy to a model:
I still sometimes have this habit of putting my butt on the edge of the chair and sitting with my legs wide open. That's not very attractive! I also used to try to spit like the guys too, but that didn't really work out — I didn't have the same skills. I had a wonderful advisor at Elite Chicago who taught me everything there is about presenting yourself and finding your own style and doing your makeup and how to shake people's hands. That was priceless to me. I learned that you don't have to dress like a guy to be yourself — you can find a style within the fashion industry that looks like you and feels like you.
What was going through her mind during the final judging:
This is embarrassing, but I always have to pee when I'm nervous, so I'm just sitting there with my designer gown with my legs crossed thinking, "Please don't pee in this designer gown!" As judging went on I got more and more comfortable and stopped shaking so much.
On being a math nerd:
I'm kind of neurotic of multiples and derivatives of the number six, so I figured that if I could make it to the top three, then I'd be fine because one, two and three are derivatives of the number six.
I still sometimes have this habit of putting my butt on the edge of the chair and sitting with my legs wide open. That's not very attractive! I also used to try to spit like the guys too, but that didn't really work out — I didn't have the same skills. I had a wonderful advisor at Elite Chicago who taught me everything there is about presenting yourself and finding your own style and doing your makeup and how to shake people's hands. That was priceless to me. I learned that you don't have to dress like a guy to be yourself — you can find a style within the fashion industry that looks like you and feels like you.
What was going through her mind during the final judging:
This is embarrassing, but I always have to pee when I'm nervous, so I'm just sitting there with my designer gown with my legs crossed thinking, "Please don't pee in this designer gown!" As judging went on I got more and more comfortable and stopped shaking so much.
On being a math nerd:
I'm kind of neurotic of multiples and derivatives of the number six, so I figured that if I could make it to the top three, then I'd be fine because one, two and three are derivatives of the number six.