When Christie Valdiserri graduated from Penn State in 2016, she felt as if she had the world at her fingertips.
Still basking in post-graduation bliss, Valdiserri was preparing to go on a celebratory graduation trip with her best friend and her best friend’s family. There was a tiny patch of her hair missing, but she figured whatever was causing it would pass.
Fast forward nearly four years later, Valdiserri is now Sports Illustrated Swimsuit’s first bald model. The journey from blonde to bald certainly wasn’t easy, but she’s maintained the same fierce and driven attitude since being diagnosed with alopecia areata.
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Checking In With the Winners of America's Next Top Model | E! News
For 24 straight seasons (sorry, cycles) hundreds of thousands of runway rookies very much did.
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Yes, as longtime creative director Jay Manuel has recently highlighted, some of the critiques and challenges certainly feel off-putting now—and were every bit as questionable in the early 2000s. (Blackface in any iteration is simply not okay, a sentiment Banks no doubt agrees with , having tweeted , "Looking back, those were some really off choices.")
New York Times food columnist on 'temporary leave' after controversial remarks on Teigen, Kondo |
New York Times chef and food columnist Alison Roman's biweekly column is "on temporary leave" after she made controversial comments in a recent interview about TV personalities Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo.
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Roman's comments came during an interview earlier this with "The New Consumer," a publication that explores "how and why people spend their time and money."
Teigen "had a successful cookbook. And then it was like: Boom, line at Target. Boom, now she has an Instagram page that has over a million followers where it's just, like, people running a content farm for her," Roman said. "That horrifies me and it's not something that I ever want to do. I don't aspire to that. But like, who's laughing now? Because she's making a ton of f---ing money."
Ashley Graham joins Until We Do It campaign
The 32-year-old model has revealed via Instagram that she's teamed up with the T-shirt manufacturer Bella+Canvas and the Until We Do It campaign to deliver protective supplies to populations most at-risk from Covid-19.
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Ashley wrote on the photo-sharing platform: "HELLO! @bellacanvas @untilwedoitorg and I are donating masks and would love YOUR help connecting with incredible organizations you care about that are in need! We have donated 25,000 so far and are able to supply an additional 25,000 to help those most affected.
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