Top-Model Gets Bitchy...Again!

I often wonder if the producers of the show look for at least three girls who will be the 'house bitches' and another one awkward girl that will be the victim that the other girls can't wait to verbally attack on camera but behind her back.

This week's photo shoot had the girls showing the glamorous and not-so glamorous life of smoking. It is the same story as with all the other photo shoots, the competitive sides of the girls comes front and center and the cat-fight ensures. This one was between Bianca and Lisa; one bringing up the other's past as an exotic dancer as a sure-fire reason for failure.

Heather seems to be the victim this season. A college student with a form of autism, is the blunt of the other girls cruel remarks because of her standoffish behavior and lack of social skills. What is funny about the whole thing is these girls have no tact or sensitivity towards other people feelings. They are blatantly talking about Heather while she is only a few feet away; fully aware of what is being said. I know it is a competition, but why do people on reality show seems to sign away their humanity and compassion along with their release forms.

Everything about these girls are being judged, so I can somewhat understand their need to judge each other. Half of them is clearly suffering from very low self-esteem, while the other half think too highly of themselves. Of all of them, the only one I feel even remotely sorry for is Heather. With her condition and personality, it took guts for her to not only pursue a career that will put her around tons of people constantly, but to also do it in front of millions on a reality show. I am almost pushing for her to prove a point to the other girls that are constantly talking behind her back.

Girls can be the most vicious creatures on this planets. I am sure that is what the producers were counting on when they thought of the concept. Let's face it, there is nothing that reality show producers (and the general public from the ratings these shows get) likes more than controversy. I am sure if all the girls did was sit around and complement each other while having tea parties, the show would have been cancelled after their first couple of episodes. Although mean girls adds up to top dollars, it also sends young girls into the other room crying on the phone to their mother.

Back to the show, the girls had a challenge of picking out their own outfits for the judging. This goes back to everything they do being judged; even the outfit that they were when one of them is told to pack their bags and leave immediately. Anyway, Saleisha won the challenge and was awarded $1000 shopping spree to Old Navy and a photo shoot.

I can't express how thrilled I was when Heather was called first. She didn't have to say anything to rebuke the nastiness the girls had bestowed on her. Her being called first was a figurative bitch slap in the face of the other girls; you can tell by the looks on their faces that they felt it too. At the end, Mila was the first to go home.

America's Next Top Model airs on The CW on Wednesdays at 8:00 ET.