''America's Next Top Model'' (cycle 12)

America's Next Top Model (cycle 12)
cycle 12 cast
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	13
Release
Original network	The CW
Original release	March 4 (2009-03-04) – May 13, 2009 (2009-05-13)
Additional information
Judges	Tyra Banks Nigel Barker J. Alexander Paulina Porizkova
No. of contestants	13
Winner	Teyona Anderson
All-stars	Allison Harvard
Cycle chronology

The twelfth cycle of America's Next Top Model premiered on March 4, 2009 and was the sixth season to air on The CW network. The cycle's catch phrase is "Get In The Fold." The cycle's promotional song is Lady Gaga's "The Fame".

The prizes for this cycle were:

• A modeling contract with Elite Model Management.
• A fashion spread and cover in Seventeen.
• A US$100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics.

The first half of the cycle took place in New York City, moving the show back from Los Angeles last season. The international destination for this cycle is São Paulo, Brazil, the series first visit to South America.

The number of girls was reduced to 13, the first time since cycle 9, after being maintained at 14 in the last two cycles. This was the last time Paulina Porizkova participated as judge.

The winner was 20-year-old Teyona Anderson from Woodstown, New Jersey. This season averaged 4.35 million viewers per episode.^[1]

Contestants

(ages stated are at start of contest)^[2]

Contestant	Age	Hometown	Finish	Place
Isabella Falk	19	Barboursville, Virginia	Episode 2	13
Jessica Santiago	18	Caguas, Puerto Rico	Episode 3	12
Nijah Harris	18	Rancho Cucamonga, California	Episode 4	11
Kortnie Coles	24	Houston, Texas	Episode 5	10
Sandra Nyanchoka	19	Rockville, Maryland	Episode 6	9
Tahlia Brookins	18	Phoenix, Arizona	Episode 7	8
London Levi	18	Arlington, Texas	Episode 9	7
Natalie Pack	19	Palos Verdes, California	Episode 10	6
Fo Porter	19	Albuquerque, New Mexico	Episode 11	5
Celia Ammerman	25	Cynthiana, Kentucky	Episode 12	4
Aminat Ayinde	21	Union, New Jersey	Episode 13	3
Allison Harvard	20	New Orleans, Louisiana		2
Teyona Anderson	20	Woodstown, New Jersey		1

Episodes

What Happens in Vegas

First aired March 4, 2009

• Featured photographer: Jessica Brooks

Fun and Games

First aired March 4, 2009

• Featured photographer: Fadil Berisha
• Special guest: Laura Poretzky

Do You Light The Way I Look?

First aired March 11, 2009

• Featured photographer: Nigel Barker
• Special guests: Nolé Marin, John Barrett, Elyssa Starkman

New York's Finest

First aired March 18, 2009

• Featured photographer: Mike Rosenthal
• Special guests: Jill Stuart, Ann Shoket, Bianca Golden, Chantal Jones
• Top Model in Action: Bianca Golden (cycle 9)

Put Your Best Face Forward

First aired March 25, 2009

• Featured photographer: Brian Edwards
• Special guests: Benny Ninja, David Blond, Phillipe Blond, Sky Nellor, Toccara Jones
• Top Model in Action: April Wilkner (cycle 2)

Here's Your Test

First aired April 1, 2009

• Featured photographer: Keith Major
• Special guests: Beth Stern
• Top Model in Action: Whitney Thompson (cycle 10)

Acting Like A Model

First aired April 8, 2009

• Featured commercial director: Peter Chelkowski
• Special guests: Clay Aiken, McKey Sullivan, Elyssa Starkman
• Top Model in Action: Heather Kuzmich (cycle 9)

Cycle 12 Rewind

First aired April 10, 2009

• Top Model in Action: Claire Unabia (cycle 10)

Take Me To The Photo Shoot

First aired April 15, 2009

• Featured photographers: James Wade, Mike Ruiz
• Special guests: Ann Shoket, Ciara
• Top Model in Action: Bre Scullark (cycle 5)

The Amazing Model Race

First aired April 22, 2009

• Featured photographers: Paschoal Rodriguez, Daniel Klajmic
• Special guests: Fernanda Motta, Helô Pinheiro
• Top Model in Action: Eva Pigford (cycle 3)

Let's Go See The City

First aired April 29, 2009

• Featured photographer: Nigel Barker
• Special guests: Paulo Borges, Fabienne Muzy, Adriana Degreas, Caio Campos, Clo Orozco, Cris Barros, Oskar Metsavaht, Adriana Bozon, Vanessa Da Silveira, Adrianne Curry
• Top Model in Action: Samantha Potter (cycle 11)

Take Me To The Jungle

First Aired: May 6, 2009

• Featured photographer: Tyra Banks
• Special guests: Juliana Leite, Eduardo Ramos, Ara Vartanian, Ann Shoket
• Top Model in Action: Yaya DaCosta (cycle 3)

America's Next Top Model Is...

First aired May 13, 2009

• Featured photographers: Jim De Yonker, Nigel Barker
• Featured commercial director: Jay Manuel
• Special guests: Amir Slama, McKey Sullivan, Maíra Vieira, Fernanda Motta, Ann Shoket
• Top Model in Action: Fatima Siad (cycle 10)

Cycle 12 Finale Party (Reunion)

The reunion aired May 13, 2009 on The Tyra Banks Show and was the third one after cycles 5 and 10. It was graduation themed and all the girls (except for Sandra, who didn't attend) wore bikinis. The girls were voted yearbook-style as follows:

Model	Yearbook Title
Allison	Most likely to star in a Twilight movie
Aminat	Most "banging" body
Celia	"Fiercest" personal style
Fo	Most likely to be on a "Guess my race" show
London	Most likely to bring a bible on a date
Natalie	Most likely to be mistaken for a Gossip Girl

Various girls were interviewed after their vote was revealed. Fo revealed she had met her father, whom she didn't know was black until she was six and coined the phrase "blaxican" at 12. Celia got her one featurette about her personal style and London went on to preach on the streets of New York City. Tyra also discussed Allison's nosebleeding picture of her and Tyra made a montage of her and Robert Pattinson. Natalie revealed she suffered from panic attacks and hypochondria.

Tyra brought a general from the US Army to discuss her positive impact on burnt soldiers and Tahlia did a shoot with a burnt soldier and another burn survivor where they displayed their scars. It was also revealed that Tahlia had become pregnant since the taping of the show. Then elderly people reenacted memorable scenes introduced by Bianca Golden from cycle 9. Those included Fo's haircut, Celia's rebellion against Tyra and Natalie's and Aminat's face off. Celia said that all things were settled between her and Tahlia and when Tyra said "Don't mess with a girl's money", Celia joked back that Tahlia was messing with hers.

The show ended with Tyra revealing that two contestants had been offered a contract with Nous Model Management by Kenya Knight which were revealed on her show's website as being Allison and Fo.

Summaries

Call-out order

Order	Episodes
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	9	10	11	12	13
1	Aminat	Allison	Teyona	Sandra	Tahlia	Fo	Celia	Teyona	Allison	Teyona	Allison	Allison	Teyona
2	Natalie	Fo	Celia	Aminat	Teyona	Teyona	Natalie	Fo	Teyona	Allison	Teyona	Teyona	Allison
3	Fo	Teyona	Allison	Tahlia	Allison	Tahlia	Teyona	Natalie	Fo	Aminat	Aminat	Aminat
4	Allison	London	Natalie	Fo	Natalie	Aminat	Fo	Celia	Celia	Celia	Celia
5	Tahlia	Celia	London	Celia	London	Allison	London	Allison	Aminat	Fo
6	Celia	Nijah	Nijah	Kortnie	Aminat	Natalie	Aminat	Aminat	Natalie
7	Nijah	Kortnie	Tahlia	London	Celia	London	Allison	London
8	London	Natalie	Sandra	Teyona	Fo	Celia	Tahlia
9	Teyona	Aminat	Kortnie	Natalie	Sandra	Sandra
10	Kortnie	Tahlia	Aminat	Allison	Kortnie
11	Isabella	Jessica	Fo	Nijah
12	Jessica	Sandra	Jessica
13	Sandra	Isabella

     The contestant was eliminated

     The contestant won the competition

• In episode 1, the group of 21 girls was reduced to 13 that would move on to the main competition. This first call-out does not reflect their performance that first week.
• Episode 8 was the recap episode

Photo Shoot Guide

• Episode 1 photo shoot (casting): Goddess profile/type of goddess
• Episode 2 photo shoot: Childhood games
• Episode 3 photo shoot: Lighting oneself in a warehouse
• Episode 4 photo shoot: Couture New York City sight-seeing
• Episode 5 photo shoot: Ellis Island immigrants
• Episode 6 photo shoot: Beauty shots evoking different colors
• Episode 7 Commercial: CoverGirl Micro Mineral foundation
• Episode 9 photo shoot: Crazed Ciara fans tangled in wires
• Episode 10 photo shoot: Embodying Carmen Miranda on a Favella
• Episode 11 photo shoot: Swimsuits on a tourist beach
• Episode 12 photo shoot: Exotic birds
• Episode 13 photo shoot & Commercial: CoverGirl Outlast Lipstain print ad and commercial & Seventeen Magazine covers

Makeovers

• Allison – Wavy blonde extensions
• Aminat – Naomi Campbell inspired wavy extensions
• Celia – Cut short and dyed platinum blonde
• Fo – Pixie cut
• Jessica – Cut to shoulder length, Reddish highlights and volumized
• Kortnie – Dyed mahogany red
• London – Agyness Deyn inspired cropped hair and dyed platinum blonde
• Natalie – No makeover
• Nijah – Wavy black weave
• Sandra – Bleached blonde and cut shorter
• Tahlia – Golden blonde wavy weave like a lion mane
• Teyona – Jheri curl weave; later, big curly weave

Post-Top Model careers

• Celia Ammerman has modeled for the New York Post^[3] and Vogue Italia.^[4] She has also been featured on Racked.com,^[5] in the September 2009 issue of Allure^[6] and in Short Hair.^[7] She has appeared on The Tyra Banks Show. She has also walked in New York Fashion Week 2011 for Marlon Globel.
• Teyona Anderson was signed was Elite Model Management in New York and Cape Town. She is currently signed with Mega Models in Miami and Base Model Agency in Cape Town under the name "Asia Anderson".
• Aminat Ayinde has modeled for Zulu Rose^[8] and walked in the This Day/Arise: African Fashion Collection S/S 10 show.^[9] She is signed to MMG Models in New York. She modeled on season 2 of Project Runway All Stars for Emilio Sosa. She also modeled again on season 14 for Edmond Nelson for his finale collection wearing his first look.
• Tahlia Brookins has modeled for People.^[10]
• Kortnie Coles is currently signed with Wilhelmina Models in New York City and Models 1 in London.
• Isabella Falk is currently signed with Elite Model Management in Chicago under her real name, Kelly Marie.^[11]
• Nijah Harris has modeled for That Girl.^[12]
• Allison Harvard was signed with Nous Model Management in Los Angeles. She competed in cycle 17 among other previous contestants, finishing in second place to Lisa D'Amato. She appeared in the final episode of cycle 21. She has walked in New York Fashion Week 2012 for Malan Breton, Gemma Khang, and Richie Rich. She also walked in Philippine Fashion Week for Michael Cinco. She is the face of Cinco's fragrance "Impalpable". She also modeled for Bench in "Bench Universe". She runs an art and photography studio in Brooklyn.^[13] On September 21, 2012, it was announced that Harvard would be making her acting debut as the character Carina in the independent feature film Insensate.^[14] On October 6, 2012, Harvard made an appearance in an episode of "I Am Meg: Own the World in Style", a Philippines TV modeling competition.^[15]
• London Levi appeared in the October 2009 issue of Playboy.^[16]
• Sandra Nyanchoka was signed with Major Model Management in New York.^[17]
• Natalie Pack is currently signed with NEXT Model Management in Miami and Ford Models in Los Angeles.^[18] She has modeled for Jockey^[19] and BL!SSS' July 2009 issue.^[20] She walked for Billabong^[21] and Dona Daneshi's "I Am Mystic".^[22] She is Miss California USA 2012 and competed in Miss USA 2012.^[23]
• Fo Porter is currently signed with Nous Model Management in Los Angeles.^[24] She has modeled for Revolve clothing^[25] and Nylon.^[26] She has appeared in advertising campaigns for Paul Mitchell, H&M, American Eagle, Abercrombie & Fitch, Reebok, Nike, Billabong,^[24] Target and Payless.^[27] She was featured in the music videos for Justin Timberlake's "Tunnel Vision" and Usher's "Good Kisser".
• Jessica Santiago is currently signed with Ford Models in Los Angeles.^[28] She participated in Nuestra Belleza Latina, but was eliminated before the contestants were chosen. She also competed in Model Latina where she finished as the runner-up. She was a contestant in Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2011, and placed as the second runner-up.^[29]

References

External links

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• America's Next Top Model, cycle 12 at TV.com