America's Next Top Model : Cycle 7 Recaps:
Episode 10 “The Girl Who Grates" (page 4)
by D. Yueh
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Everybody in the Pool — Jay meets with the girls and immediately tells them he’s brought someone to help kick it up a notch. It’s not Emeril; it’s Tyra. To the delight of the girls, Tyra runs out and pecks Jay on the lips. Then she makes a blatant “yuck” face. Ha ha!
Tyra is going to be the coach for today’s shoot: the girls will float on their backs in water. And because she knows how well everyone gets along, Tyra pairs them up for the shoot. Amanda will be with CariDee, and Melrose has to paddle around with Eugena. Melrose’s big concern is that her hair will turn green in the chlorine. That would be special.
Jay says, “You girls will look like ethereal nymphs, so we’re going to give you extra long hair …” I seriously doubt if everyone knows what ethereal (or nymph, for that matter) means. They go into makeup eagerly, as always. Eugena’s complaining about the extensions they’re gluing to her head. Don’t worry, we can always lop it off and give you a Jaeda do.
At the swimming pool, Tyra tells them, “The secret to floating is an arched back.” In that case, CariDee’s got this one sewn up. But first, Eugena and Melrose get in the pool, fully dressed in long evening gowns. The water is icy cold, reports Melrose. And because I’m basically a 13-year-old, I immediately hope we’ll be seeing some nippleage. I know, I know.
Tyra has no sympathy about the freezing water. “Try shooting Sports Illustrated in the snow, laying in the snow.” But then she admits, “I didn’t do it, but other models did.”
Tyra gives photographer David Ruiz instructions in Spanglish as Eugena and Melrose stand up to their necks in the water, their teeth chattering. They’re positioned on their backs, head to head, with their feet pulled out in opposite directions by assistants who are in the water with them. The minute the guy lets go of Eugena, she sinks faster than K-Fed’s newest single. I bet Eugena can’t get her float on because she can’t swim.
Their dark and light nymph hair gently flowing and entangling together in the water, their blue-lipped faces floating just above the surface, Eugena and Melrose get their shots taken as Tyra looks on. Jay says off to the side, “It’s interesting — don’t these two girls hate each other?” Perhaps a bit of professionalism has started to take hold, and Tyra’s life lessons were all just a bunch of lame-o advice.
Tyra reminds them to keep it looking soft as she demonstrates from poolside. You get the feeling she misses it and wants to jump in herself, which would be more fun to watch, if you ask me, because Eugena nails her shot when she says, “I looked like a dead fish when I was up in that cold water.”
Amanda and CariDee get ready to jump in as Eugena and Melrose lie down in the sun on the warm stone patio. CariDee asks nervously, “You were crying?” to which Eugena says, “Almost.”
“Soft,” Tyra says again and again. But Amanda’s arms don’t know from soft. At least they both know how to float. CariDee, always a little high-maintenance, isn’t doing well with the cold.
“C’mon, you’re from Fargo!” says Tyra. Seriously.
CariDee asks for a break from her high-fashion moment. She needs to be pulled from the pool and lies curled up in a ball on the ground. Hypothermia. It’s the new black.
Melrose theorizes that CariDee is a drama queen who always needs too much coddling, which is true. CariMee is out, but Amanda is game to finish the last 50 frames solo. Brava, little filly. You don’t have an ounce of body fat to insulate you, and you haven’t complained or cried. Michelle would be so proud.
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