ANTM Series 9: Petite & High Fashion Nicole Fox

 Nicole Arianna Fox
March 6, 1991

Winner in Cycle 13

Nicole Fox graduated from Monarch High School. As of 2009, she was a sophomore student at University of Colorado at Boulder majoring in studio arts. She wanted to be an artist, journalist and model
Fox was selected as one of the 14 finalists to compete in the thirteenth cycle of America's Next Top Model, a cycle that was specially created for models who are 5'7" and under. Fox stood at 5'7", the maximum height for the entry. A couple of months before Nicole tried out for the show, she met a photographer at an art gallery in Denver. He encouraged her to try out for the show because he knew Allison Harvard of Cycle 12 was also an artist like Nicole. With his encouragement, she got up the courage to try out for America's Next Top Model.

Throughout the competition, Fox won two reward challenges and three top photos. Despite her shy and awkward personality, she never placed below fifth and was one of the strongest girls of her cycle, which was undeniably a source of talk amongst the other girls of her cycle. At the final judging, Fox was lauded for her high-fashion photographs and her successful mastery of her body proportion, in spite of her unconventional runway walk in the fashion show. In the end, she was chosen as the winner of America's Next Top Model, beating runner-up Laura Kirkpatrick, who was considered another favorite of the judges. Nicole became the third winner to have never appeared in the bottom two. This record was preceded by winners Jaslene Gonzalez and McKey Sullivan, and was succeeded by Krista White, Sophie Sumner, and Jourdan Miller. Despite the height rules, she is still taller than Cycle 3 winner Eva Pigford.

Kirkpatrick said she believed Fox won because of the strength of her photos: "Every time with the judges, she could do no wrong in front of them. They really saw her as perfect." Fox said of her win:

Sometimes I didn't think I was going to survive the journey, 
like I remember during casting week
I went home and I cried because I was like 
"What have I got myself into? I can't deal with this!" 
And I didn't think it would be okay to be that dorky girl 
but I'm a dork and I'm America's Next Top Model!

For her first-place finish, Fox received a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics, a representation contract with Wilhelmina Models and was featured on the cover of Seventeen, as well as a six-page spread in the magazine. Tyra Banks, retired supermodel and host of America's Next Top Model, said to Fox following her win, "You are a star. You have IT!" Her sister, Alexandra Fox, said of her sister: "She's definitely glad she did it, but she wouldn't repeat it. You're on camera 24 hours a day, and you can't have a single conversation without worrying about how it will be edited."
As the winner of America's Next Top Model, Fox received a six page spread in Seventeen Magazine, and an ad for Cover Girl Lash Blast Mascara. Fox has also modeled for Illiterate Magazine, in which she had a spread, and been featured on AOL.com, More magazine and in OK! Magazine. Fox was featured in Wild Fox Couture's 2010 fall collection lookbook along with models Rachel Ballinger and Daria Plyushko, as well as in on-line ads for Spirit Hoods and in a campaign for Heritage 1981's Spring 2010 collection—which is a sister brand of Forever 21, and ads for Steve Madden Spring Collection. She will be in the campaign for Nicole Richie's "House of Harlow 1960 Spring 2011" fashion line. In January 2010, a news story circulated reporting that Fox would be the face of Alexander McQueen's new spring/summer collection, but this rumor was revealed to be false and has been debunked by both McQueen and Fox.
Nicole will star as Ashley, a self-mutilating outcast teenage girl in the indie teen drama Ashley, directed by Dean Ronalds and produced by Trick Candle Productions and Ronalds Brothers Productions. The film is set to be released in the US in May 2012. Nicole is portraying a model on the wedding & the runway, The Bold and the Beautiful in December 1, 6 and 7 of 2011. Fox can also be spotted in the Avengers Dr. Pepper commercial as Stan Lee's assistant.

In 2012, Nicole was chosen by director Brett Leonard for the PopFictionLife FragFilm "The Other Country - Starring Burlap to Cashmere". Nicole plays Melanie, a concert goer, who catches the eye of Johnny, the lead guitar player.

Plastic surgery disasters: Korean model

算计 by 米泽穗信 Yonezawa Honobu

A very nice novel to recommend
From the author Yonezawa Honobu (米泽穗信) @ 2009
This is a novel that will make you read it non stop
A book that reveals the power of money 
A book that revels the fear/phobia of a human being
Of course this book has also been shoot into a movie as well
时薪11万2千日元!为了赚取这破天荒的高额打工费,有十名男女来到了神秘的暗鬼馆,他们是:无职青年结城、公司倒闭的原社长安东、家庭主妇渕、履历不明的岩井、被裁员的中年西野、实习医生大迫、美甲师若菜、网络设计师关水、原白领祥子和大学生真木,每个人都出于各自的原因急需一大笔钱。

打工内容是在七天中参与一项心理实验,只须按照规则和既定程序行事即可。在发生某桩不合规或不合法事件后,被试者要一起讨论推理出谁是罪犯,然后,除了嫌疑人之外的所有人表决,根据少数服从多数的原则确定犯人,最后把犯人投入监狱。试验方在此过程中收集心理数据。对被试者来说这是一场不可思议的发财梦,如果顺利的话,甚至能成为亿万富翁。然而,等待着他们的,并不是美好的梦境,而是可怕的魔魇。

实验第二天,众人发现了一名被试者的尸体,由此全体恐慌。偏偏整栋暗鬼馆是封闭的,不到约定的时日根本无法逃离,他们只得硬着头皮继续推测犯人。

这个实验另外还有一个特点:只要出现尸体被试者就能分到红包,很有可能有人为了钱而行凶杀人。与此同时,试验方在每个房间里放置了冰锥、斧子、毒药等凶器,仿佛在煽动人们内心的贪念与欲望。 还有六天,每个人都不知道自己会在何时遭袭击。要怎样才能从这个死亡游戏中幸存下来?是选择杀人,还是坐等被杀,或是努力躲避?人们相互怀疑,陷入了各藏鬼胎、勾心斗角的心理谜局……
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