‘Top Model’: More than meets the eye

“America’s Next Top Model” special report

By Nadria Tucker

“America’s Next Top Model” has been calm … so far. The little bit of “she doesn’t want to be here” drama that erupted in Episode 1 fizzled quickly as the girl who “doesn’t want to be here” was eliminated.

Episode 2 found the models moving into mansions and walking sky-high runways with no time for any extracurricular shenanigans. If that was the calm before the storm, then tonight’s episode is gonna be a blizzard, y’all.

It’s makeover week.

See Kendal Brown of Northport and the other girls as they magically transform into butterflies, crazy crying butterflies, after the jump …

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Makeovers! And that means surgery! I believe it’s a technique pioneered in the film “Face/Off.”

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But seriously folks: hair extensions. Hometown girl Kendal is un-be-weave-able!

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More hair extensions! Ann Ward goes from long brown hair to longer brown hair!

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Kacey Leggett’s hair extensions look exactly like her real hair! Fab!

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Curveball! Terra White is eliminated right after the makeovers. Not really a surprise though: She was the only girl to cry in the hair chair, and she had a major meltdown during last week’s photo shoot.

Those tears in the photo aren’t because she got eliminated, but because she was eliminated after they cut her hair.

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The photo shoot involves men and emotions, so study the models as they try to look emotional while hovering over shirt-less, pants-less men …

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Kendal’s photo lands her in the Bottom 4. The judges say she fails to show any expression on her face, but that she has potential.

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Ann has the best photo for the second week in a row. This caterpillar is becoming a butterfly before host Tyra Banks’ very eyes!

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Sara Blackwell is eliminated for her failed attempt to be seductive. If watching “America’s Next Top Model” has taught me anything over the last 75 years, it’s that models can’t act. Or dance. Or do anything except (sometimes) model.

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Birmingham writer Nadria Tucker (@NadriaTucker) dabbles in magical realism and the Southern gothic tradition, but always keeps an eye toward the future of Southern fiction. Her award-winning fiction is character driven and sometimes dark, but usually plays fair. Her work has been featured in publications such as The2ndHand, Lipstick and Birmingham Magazine.