First of all, I found out this piece of Trivia today:
!!!!
As it turns out, when they filmed the promo for cycle 2 (which Trojan has put in this rankdown previously) Eboni was not there for ~reasons~ so they had cycle 1 winner Gemma film her role and digitally edited the face to match Eboni's (though they forgot to edit the very first close-up of the whole ad? lol). This is her part:
This is something that is amazing to me because I remember Eboni being really scrawny looking, and in this promo she looks like she's got some ridic hot body
It makes total sense now that we know it's
not actually her body. How random is that?
Anyway, so back to Eboni. Cycle 2 was one of those rare occasions where the girl I am rooting for actually wins the competition. In hindsight that was a bit of a mistake on my part, but she was the underdog, who wouldn't root for her? She came into the competition and immediately had some tough luck on the first runway when her shoe came off but she still managed to win it - probably because the early seasons are when the judges praise girls for "overcoming problems" like that - like when a girl face-plants on the runway and they praise her when she gets up and continues walking.
She also ended up with a fierce photo - in a challenge where most of the girls ended up with some real shit tbh:
and she walked away with photo of the week. She continues her top-half progression until BAM....Episodes 4, 5 & 6 happen.
TOP MODEL CAMPING!!!! There is sooooooo much drama at this point in the season that needs to be saved for the actual girls involved but omw, this episode is filled with epic dramz like one model putting horse shit into the sleeping bag of another
and a stylist employed by AusNTM going into the model house and fucking one of the girls (+ another girl claiming he tried to fuck her too and threatening to sue the show if they didn't fire him)
But here we gotta talk about Eboni. At Top Model camping, they all had to sleep on the ground in sleeping bags and we learn that ~a few years ago~ Eboni was involved in a srs car accident and so she ends up waking up with back pain and gets carted off to the hospital after one night. The other girls get on with the show and assume Eboni has GTFO'd of the competition and is no longer an epic threat to win the whole thing.
LOL NOPE, she was back in the next day like nothing had happened and she competed in the photoshoot and moved on in the competition.
The next episode, Caroline (previously cut) quits the competition because she "wants to focus on her HSC" and the girls go for a swimming lesson - where Eboni loses all feeling in one of her arms. As it turns out, one of the arteries in her neck was all fucked up and meant she could have a stroke so she tells the girls she's gonna have to stay in the hospital and drop out of the competition. All the girl cried with joy as Eboni left but pretended they were actually upset. Eboni then, obv, does not compete in the photoshoot that week and the girls assume there will be no elimination that round.
#wrong. lol
The very next episode hell breaks loose. In a move of epic riggage, the production team brings Eboni back into the competition and it leads to this AWK moment:
http://youtu.be/Gdx2zhfjd3w?t=4m24s(embed ain't working with the time code soz y'all)
Eboni comes back in, the girls awkwardly pretend to be happy she's back and proceed to bitch about it in confessionals for the rest of the episode
At one point, a fight breaks out and one girl (funnily the 2nd placer
) has a panic attack over it.
http://youtu.be/Gdx2zhfjd3w?t=13m11s(this lasts a few minutes.... try your best to overcome Eboni's way of speaking and understand -
What makes this episode
so. much. better. is that Eboni also gets first call-out at judging and royally gives the other girls the shits.
Eboni proceeds to kill every single challenge and photoshoot for the rest of the competition and make the haterz cry cry as she gets her Top Model crown at the Cycle 2 finale. It was 100% amazing and y'all should go watch cycle 2 right now.
The reason Eboni is getting cut before Jess is simple - Jess is a goddess who actually has model potential rather than just a fabulous drama storyline and I love Jess
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