» S3: Toccara Options

[Rydell]

Toccara: 22 years old; a student from Dayton, Ohio.

More info at the official America's Next Top Model website

This post has been edited by Rydell: Sep 3, 2004 @ 6:12 pm.

[Hairymango]

For a token big girl, she is quite a beauty.

[Maybelline]

She's gorgeous. A much better plus-size representative than Robyn from Season One, who was fugly, IMO. I love the way she looks. Janice? Won't.

[BitchySmurf]

I definately agree. She is the best looking of the "plus sized models" that have been put on this show. Janice might take try to take her out early, but if she does well on the shoots then the other judges will spare her, at least for a time.

[EmbiggenedSoul]

Definitely gorgeous and the most promising for a legit "plus-sized" model. Still won't win - if they decided they were going that direction, it wouldn't be a competition - why not just make her the winner? Still, hope she makes it farther than Anna and is less sanctimonious than Robynne!

[Ember]

She is really beautiful. But since they are looking for runway, haute-couture models, she isn't going to go far. Hopefully this contest will open up the doors for her.

[funnyfan]

She's gorgeous. A much better plus-size representative than Robyn from Season One, who was fugly, IMO.

ITA. Not to mention, unlike the strangely zig-zaggy Robyn, her body is both gorgeous and proportional. She also has an extremely pretty face and, since she's only 22, is unlikely to be hindered by a family the way Anna was. And with any luck, she'll have a greater work ethic than Anna too.

Good luck to her-- she'll need it in the face of the relentless onslaught she'll face from Janice.

[Maybelline]

Here's a less-flattering photo of Toccara. Those too-tight, tapered leg (!) jeans aren't doing her any favors, and the poncho isn't hiding the pudge that is peeping out over that waistband. God, I hope they find her some clothes that accentuate her figure.

Her face is fabulous.

[ChillinTheMost]

I think she'll get second. Tyra has been fighting for her version of "plus size" model to go far and I think Toccara might be pretty enough to pull it off - at least until 2nd place, when the deal Tyra cut with Janice and whichever agency has to hire the winner kicks in and Toccara takes second to YaYa's first.

[vicesick]

She really is pretty. That pic above, with the hideous tapered leg jeans (that look like shit, anyway, all dirtied up. Ew), who the hell styled that photo? It's a before shot from What Not to Wear (UK, of course).

dreams of becoming the world's first superstar plus-size model.

Do you think Carre Otis has already achieved this (and others), or no?

This post has been edited by vicesick: Sep 7, 2004 @ 6:10 pm.

[Hairymango]

I'm not buying the 180 lbs. thing. For 5' 9" 180 would be what... a size 14 or so. She looks a little larger than that to me.

[Batskeets]

(Hi, I'm new-ish)

I'm definitely liking her for a legitimate plus-size model, especially compared to her predecessors: Anna wasn't really "plus" enough (or at all :p), and ITA that Robyn was plain fugly.

I'm not buying the 180 lbs. thing. For 5' 9" 180 would be what... a size 14 or so. She looks a little larger than that to me.

I think could buy her as weighing 180, largely because whoever styled those shots blew it huge. Those dirty tapered jeans in particular don't even look like they fit her--pudge over the waistband and the obvious too-tightness across the hips? For SHAME. Every girl looks heavier when her clothes are too small.

She does have a great face, though, and she's well-proportioned. I hope she lasts long enough to get some decent exposure!

[Busy Bee]

She was a size 14.... and HUGE boobs.

And the girls wore their own clothes for those shots. The regular stylists didn't come into the picture until after those, the "Hooters" promo pic and the dominatrix scaffolding picture had been done.

This post has been edited by Busy Bee: Sep 7, 2004 @ 10:11 pm.

[PorkFat]

Her face is flawless. Does she remind anyone else of Queen Latifah?

[vicesick]

And the girls wore their own clothes for those shots. The regular stylists didn't come into the picture until after those, the "Hooters" promo pic and the dominatrix scaffolding picture had been done.

Somehow, this makes me feel much better. Not for the girls, who have at some point chosen these clothes thinking that they would make them look good, but for the stylist industry. Cuz whoa.