No Longer on Top: ANTM's Katarzyna
Last night the girls did their best imitation of Russell Crowe and battled out as gladiators in Rome’s Coliseum bringing new meaning to the word “fierce”. Anya and Whitney were victorious as fashion warriors while other girls struggled to be simultaneously pretty and violent. It was no surprise that Fatima wielded her sword like it was something awkward, cumbersome and foreign; her style has always been more passive-aggressive anyway.
And how about that backstabbing move she pulled on sweet Katarzyna when she dished to the other girls how the Eastern European beauty had no personality and belonged behind a desk somewhere? I just hoped and hoped that Katarzyna would avenge herself in the photoshoot and smile so hard with her eyes that radioactive beams would emanate from them and incinerate Fatima and maybe even Tyra, too! Sadly, her portrayal of an Italian Renaissance diva left something to be desired: mainly, life.
Do”man”ique bowled over the judges with her marvelous photoshoot. Tyra admitted that she expected nothing less than suck from our “undercover brother”, Ms. Dominique prior to her playing photographer (as she does once every cycle) and shooting the girls for her first time in artificial light. Wow, Tyra surely is a Renaissance woman! Anya gave pleasantly awkward poses and Fatima was all Iman if Iman was in a water ballet, which I suppose is good. Whitney couldn’t extricate herself from cheesecake mode and once again found herself in the bottom two with Top Model of the Week Katarzyna.
It was our Juliette Binoche doppelganger that was sent home because she “thought too much” while taking her photos. I guess she was too busy making mathematical calculations, solving the current economic crisis, or pondering the mind/body dichotomy when she should have been exaggerating her poses, figuring out ways to elongate her limbs, and smiling seductively with her orbs. Wow, what a loser.
Here’s a fabulous fan tribute to KAH-TAH-ZHY-NA: