For those that haven't seen America's Next Top Model Season 8 : The final three enjoy the video.
Jaslene Gonzalez's heart and soul can rest easy.
A year after failing to make the cut, the 20-year-old Chicago native was named America's Next Top Model Wednesday, becoming the first Latina to win the competition and easing Tyra Banks' worries about what the leggy raven-haired beauty would do if she didn't win.
"Every little girl has a dream to be something," Gonzalez said, eyes brimming with happy tears. "And to be here, I overcame so much. I didn't make it the first time, but now look at me...That shows to all young women, if you have that drive, keep going. Second time around, and I'm America's Next Top Model!"
Gonzalez, who said earlier in the season—Top Model's eighth—that modeling is what she was meant to do and that every fiber of her being was wholly devoted to taking the top prize, beat out fellow finalists Renee Alway, 20, and Natasha Galkina, 21. She wins a year's representation from Elite Model Management, a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl and a cover and six-page spread in Seventeen magazine.
And she doesn't have to pull out Natasha's hair, like she threatened to do if the bubbly Russian won.
(There's a reason they call it the catwalk.)
After 13 weeks of posing like corpses, dressing up as men, faking Australian accents and otherwise subjecting themselves to uncomfortable-looking scenarios that somehow never failed to produce seemingly flawless photographs (to a normal person, anyway), the top three girls had to make it all come together in a print ad and commercial for CoverGirl.
Alway nailed her "My Life As a Cover Girl" spot and easily transferred her "easy, breezy, beautiful" look to the subsequent photo shoot but, as the judges have been saying throughout the competition, she ended up looking older than her fellow contestants, prompting one CoverGirl exec to remark that she almost seems "too mature to be starting out in the modeling industry."
"I've seen this face before," photographer and judge Nigel Barker said as the panel deliberated after round one. "It's not the freshest face for me. And we're looking for America's Next Top Model."
Galkina, who almost went home in week two but spent the rest of the season taking better and better pictures and charming the judges' pants off, took her usual buoyant approach to the task at hand. But something was lost in translation, and ad-libbing the spot required left the very vivacious yet heavily accented Galkina sounding mechanical.
Which was fine, considering the judges just adored her.
"Your imperfections are often what make you so beautiful," Barker told her. "You have all the bits and pieces that you need."
"I personally think she is the most beautiful of the three," 1960s-era modeling icon Twiggy said.
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