Cassiopea_Fay

This show is ridiculous. Is it really a serious reality show? Like are they seriously looking for models or is there some sort of joke going on around here? For one thing, not only do the majority of models on this show have terrible personalities, but they are very unattractive. They might be tall and skinny, but that is all the qualifications that they seem to have.Even in photos they look terrible.At least in America's Next Top Model, they search for facial structures that can be flattering in photography and catwalk (Even if the girls don't look as pretty face to face as their normal selves) and be a chameleon - have a face that can easily change looks.These "models" don't even have that. They walk and pose terribly too, and these challenges that they face are so silly.I can't believe this show is still running...

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pekinman

I have never liked reality shows, in fact I don't watch TV at all except when visiting friends. One of my pals and I got hooked on 'Make Me a Supermodel' because it has moments of outrageous hilarity (he and I share a mordant and caustic wit). I couldn't begin to tell you what it is about watching 16 aspiring young people getting run through the mill, getting smeared in chocolate, flouncing down the catwalk in garbage bags and fright wigs etc. But I'm hooked. It's not true that all the models are dimwitted airheads. C.J., the beautiful blonde turned brunette by a singularly sadistic hair-stylist who calls herself Tabitha, was home-schooled, went to college at 15 and is majoring in physics. She was just too damned smart to cope with the situation and the other boys and girls ended up hating her guts. She was the tall poppy that got cut down early on. It's like a soap-opera and the silly feuds are entertaining. What my friend and I enjoy are moments like the axing of the model named Karen. She had a bad week, poor thing. She was called a voodoo queen and scary and finally in the last moments of her despair was told by the awful Tabitha that 'to me you are totally forgettable.' !! That's pretty hard-life-lesson stuff and a bit over the top, but the modeling biz is brutal so best for Karen to get the message that she ain't up to it. Karen left the stage in tears and my friend burst into diabolical laughter. A wrist-slitting moment for the poor model.We were entertained in Episode 6 with Amanda's giving head to a beer bottle in front of her 'amour' Gabriel, who was tossed off the show minutes later. Amanda burst into tears too. She's the resident slut but I'm rooting for her anyway, up to a point.And they aren't all a bunch of anorexic skeletons either. In fact it seems that most of them eat too much, except Jordan who's skinny as a rail and she has been told to eat eat eat.I admire the courage of these contestants who have to bare it all, practically, before millions and take the most withering criticism with aplomb. It is a great exercise in controlling the ego. I think all teenagers should have to watch this show and learn about what it means to be committed and disciplined,and rolling with the failures and not giving up; something that is sorely missing in their culture at the moment.I look forward every week to catching up with the latest episode and have joined the show's blog to vote on the who the big three will be. If you like 'American Idol' you'll probably like this circus as well.

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Joofus

One of the things that impressed me with Bravo's other shows was that they took people with talent. To be a chef, you have to be a quick thinker, to be a designer, you have to be artistic and ready to look at things from a new perspective. To be a model? All you have to do is have a pretty face and the will to become Skelator. And that just doesn't cut it for me.In a way, 'Make Me a Supermodel' is kind of amazing in that the models fit every stereotype you can think of. None of them are terribly bright, and they are all shockingly skinny and make a point of skipping meals. At least on other model shows, there are people encouraging them to be healthy. On this one it's the other way around. The judges criticize the models about their weight constantly. How many young girls (and some boys) watch this show and think that' how you have to be? These people set bad examples for everyone, not just children.Do yourself a favor. Don't watch this show; you can literally feel the brain cells draining out your ears as the judge (who looks like Minnie Driver would if she was attacked with plastic surgery) walks onto the screen. It's depressing.

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