Shannon sticks by her decision

[lizcyard]

"I think they want a girl who is willing to do anything and I'm not willing to be anybody's puppet. I know who I am and I'm confident in that....... in a way I was actually kind of relieved to leave because I really had enough of being bullied in the judging room."

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/s68/americas-next-top-model/interviews/a350426/americas-

Comments

[ruxi]

I can't say I sympathized too much with her on the show, but reading this interview makes me feel a little bad for her. It's as if she was really disheartened with the whole experience.

[funkaliciousss]

it was so obvious that this episode was set up to humiliate/eliminate her. you can tell from all that random talk about how it is lingerie that looks like swimsuit (even from Allison).

how i wish ANTM would just let the drama come by itself instead of trying to force/create it out of nothing and then edit the shit out of it. was watching cycle 2 and 3 and oh how i missed those good old days.

[blueymcphluey]

oh yeah because season 2 and 3 didn't have any staged drama...

[funkaliciousss]

"I was pitched the idea to come on a show about branding and what you wanted your brand to be, but when I went on the show it was like they were telling me what my brand should be when they really don't know me. They see me in the judging room and that's it."

and this is exactly why this season sucked so much. they were trying to shove the girls into archetypes right from the start and trying desperately to edit them to fit those stereotypes that it comes off as extremely contrived and fake and as such predictable and boring. they even did this to the point of deciding what kind of sound they should have. lol.

[anna_drenxavier]

If I'd done the photoshoot in Greece they would have told me in judging I didn't stay true to my brand: 'You're supposed to be trustworthy, you said on the very first photoshoot you didn't pose in underwear and now look, you're posing in underwear!' It was a two-edged sword."

LOL TOO TRUE! She was screwed either way.

[spoosh]

I like Shannon. I also like the fact that she did not go back on her resolve. (Although part of me dislikes the idea that her resolves likely stem from misguided, religious zealotry.)

However, her claim in this article that she refuses to be a puppet is downright frustrating. Modeling by its very nature is puppetry. Derp derp derp.

[sequent_c]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think it stems from "misguided, religious zealotry" but just the fact that she thinks underwear is private and swimsuits are public. It's just her level of comfort and standards.

Also, if modeling is puppetry, then so is any job where you're not the boss.