Cycle 4, Episode 3: "The Girl Who Suddenly Collapsed"

The models get told they’re going to battle it out in a coliseum. They show up at a sports stadium where Miss J prances out for the world’s smallest pep rally.

He has them practice walking in clogs on grass.

Then they have to go down the stadium steps with “props”, which include a hockey stick, a skateboard, a football and a Gatorade cooler.

I’m sure this will come in handy in the modeling world!

The next morning, the models arrive at a K Mart and Keenyah turns into a cyclops.

And the height of Naima’s hair is out of control.

Miss J is there with Sandi Bass (the muse for Givenchy) to give them their runway challenge. They have to duel it out on two parallel blue carpets carrying props and wearing bargain bin clothes.

Pan vs. mop

Miss J tells Sarah to “walk as though you’re walking through hell in gasoline-soaked pajamas”. This is what she delivered.

Whenever I go to hell, I always pack my Tonka truck

We never get an explanation why Kahlen’s hair looks like this and it’s ok.

The winner is Rebecca or “Becky” as Miss J exclusively refers to her.

Becky wins a pair of shoes from Stuart Weitzman and gets to pick five other contestants to also get free shoes.

If I won the prize today, you know I’d get these $395 fugly slingbacks.

Michelle’s been acting weird, according to the other models, and Noelle takes it upon herself to get to the bottom of Michelle’s unease.

It turns out she’s bisexual, which was groundbreaking for 2005. Tiffany and Ebony join in to say how it’s not a big deal. I was really surprised by their response, but it’s a cool, honest moment.

The shoot this week is for 1-800-Flowers. They’re modeling with dogs and you know they had to throw in some cheap pun about “bitches” in the Tyra Mail.

Their new stylist is named Q.

This judging panel is something we don’t see coming. There is no foreshadowing about what’s about to go down. Their mini challenge is to model a potato sack. Whoopee doo.

While Rebecca’s standing in front of the judges and listening to the their feedback, her eyes start to roll back and she passes out, falling straight onto the floor like in a cartoon.

What disturbs me is how long it seems to take anyone to get up and go check on her.

It then comes to light that Rebecca has a pre-existing condition where she sometimes faints. Why was there no talk of this earlier in the episode???

Rebecca is taken away in an ambulance just to be sure she’s ok.

And judging continues.

In an interview for “E! True Hollywood Story”, ANTM executive producer Ken Mok explained how Rebecca fell so hard but the extensions from her makeover provided a cushion for her head and saved her life. LOLOL I don’t know if I believe this.

This moment also inspired the Tyra video meme “How many people were scared?”

My favorite photos this week are:

Tatianna

Michelle

Kahlen

Noelle

It’s a pretty solid batch of photos thanks to a simple photo concept.

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My recreation photo is one for the records. In high school, my friend Shonette and I didn’t have access to dogs to recreate this, so we used her two ferrets Smokey and Toffee.

Walking the bitches

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While the judges deliberate, Rebecca gets checked out from the emergency room. They didn’t even let her change out of the hospital gown.

Tyra lets her return to panel and she doesn’t get eliminated this week.

The bottom two come down to Brittany and Sarah. Brittany’s told her photo is too pornstar.

Yeah, I agree.

But it’s poor Tonka truck-holding Sarah with the horrible makeover who gets eliminated.

Since the show, Sarah didn’t seem to get into modeling, but I guess she did take some racy bikini photos before ANTM.

Now, she’s married with four kids.

Thanks for reading and I hope to see you back here for Cycle 4, Episode 4. If you’re not already, be sure to subscribe to get added to my newsletter.

Fierce and love,

P