America's Next Top Model season 3 explained

Season Number:	3
Bgcolour:	3D4FA9
Num Episodes:	13
Episode List:	List of America's Next Top Model episodes
Network:	UPN
Module1:	Judges: Tyra Banks Janice Dickinson Nigel Barker Nolé Marin Num Contestants: 14 Winner: Eva Pigford

The third cycle of America's Next Top Model debuted on September 22, 2004, and was hosted by model Tyra Banks.It was the first cycle to gain partnership with cosmetics magnate CoverGirl and ran weekly commercials during the show named Beauty Tip of the Week with Jay Manuel and Elsa Benítez as well as the CoverGirl of the Week contest. The cast was increased to 14 contestants, and the season's catchphrase was, "Beauty In Progress."

The prizes for this cycle were:

• A modeling contract with Ford Models.
• A fashion spread and cover in Elle Magazine.
• A 100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics.

The following prizes had been removed:

• A modeling contract with IMG Models.
• A fashion spread and cover in Jane Magazine.
• A cosmetics campaign with Sephora.

The international destinations during this cycle were Montego Bay, Jamaica (for one episode), and Tokyo, Japan, the show's first visit to Asia.

The winner was 19-year-old Eva Pigford from Los Angeles, California, with YaYa DaCosta placing as the runner up.

Contestants

(Ages stated are at the time of filming)

Contestant^[1]	Age	Height	Hometown	Outcome	Place
Magdalena Rivas^[2]	24		Worcester, Massachusetts	Episode 2	14
Leah Darrow^[3]	24		Oklahoma City, Oklahoma		13
Julie Titus^[4]	20		Kent, Washington	Episode 3	12
^[5]	20		St. Louis, Missouri	Episode 4	11
Jennipher Frost^[6]	22		Pocatello, Idaho	Episode 5	10
Kelle Jacob^[7]	19		Lenox Hill, New York	Episode 6	9
Cassie Grisham^[8]	19		Norman, Oklahoma	Episode 7	8
Toccara Jones^[9]	22		Dayton, Ohio	Episode 8	7
Nicole Borud^[10]	21		Minot, North Dakota	Episode 9	6
Norelle Van Herk^[11]	20		Newport Beach, California	Episode 11	5
Ann Markley^[12]	21		Erie, Pennsylvania	Episode 12	4
Amanda Swafford^[13]	25			Episode 13	3
Camara 'Yaya' DaCosta^[14]	21		Harlem, New York		2
Eva Pigford^[15]	19		Westmont, California		1

Episodes

Summaries

Call-out order

Order	Episodes
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	11	12	13
1	Ann	Yaya	Amanda	Cassie	Amanda	Eva	Eva	Nicole	Ann	Amanda	Amanda	Yaya	Eva
2	Leah	Kristi	Nicole	Ann	Yaya	Amanda	Ann	Eva	Eva	Yaya	Yaya	Eva	Yaya
3	Kelle	Julie	Eva	Toccara	Norelle	Nicole	Yaya	Amanda	Norelle	Eva	Eva	Amanda
4	Cassie	Jennipher	Yaya	Nicole	Eva	Yaya	Norelle	Yaya	Amanda	Ann	Ann
5	Yaya	Kelle	Toccara	Eva	Nicole	Toccara	Amanda	Norelle	Yaya	Norelle
6	Kristi	Cassie	Jennipher	Amanda	Toccara	Norelle	Nicole	Ann	Nicole
7	Julie	Toccara	Cassie	Norelle	Ann	Cassie	Toccara	Toccara
8	Magdalena	Nicole	Norelle	Yaya	Cassie	Ann	Cassie
9	Nicole	Eva	Ann	Kelle	Kelle	Kelle
10	Amanda	Norelle	Kristi	Jennipher	Jennipher
11	Norelle	Amanda	Kelle	Kristi
12	Toccara	Ann	Julie
13	Jennipher	Leah
14	Eva

The contestant was eliminated

The contestant was eliminated outside of the judging panel

The contestant won the competition

Average call-out order

Casting call-out order and final two are not included.

Rank by average	Place	Model	Call-out total	Number of call-outs	Call-out average
1	1	Eva	35	11	3.18
2	2	Yaya	36		3.27
3	3	Amanda	38		3.45
4	6	Nicole	34	8	4.25
5	4	Ann	55	10	5.50
6	5	Norelle	51	9	5.67
7	7	Toccara	41	7	5.86
8	8	Cassie	37	6	6.17
9–10	10	Jennipher	30	4	7.50
	12	Julie	15	2
11	11	Kristi	23	3	7.67
12	9	Kelle	43	5	8.60
13	13	Leah	13	1	13.00
14	14	Magdalena	14		14.00

Bottom two

Episode	Contestants			Eliminated
2	Ann	&	Leah
				Leah
3	Julie	&	Kelle	Julie
4	Jennipher	&	Kristi	Kristi
5	Jennipher	&	Kelle	Jennipher
6	Ann	&	Kelle	Kelle
7	Cassie	&	Toccara	Cassie
8	Ann	&	Toccara	Toccara
9	Nicole	&	Yaya	Nicole
11	Ann	&	Norelle	Norelle
12	Ann	&	Eva	Ann
13	Amanda	&	Eva	Amanda
	Eva	&	Yaya	Yaya

The contestant was eliminated after her first time in the bottom two

The contestant was eliminated after her second time in the bottom two

The contestant was eliminated after her third time in the bottom two

The contestant was eliminated after her fifth time in the bottom two

The contestant was eliminated outside of the judging panel

The contestant was eliminated in the final judging and placed as the runner-up

Photo shoot guide

• Episode 2 photo shoot: Swimsuits on the beaches of Jamaica
• Episode 3 photo shoot: Nivea beauty shots
• Episode 4 photo shoot: Lee Jeans topless group shot
• Episode 5 photo shoot: Dooney & Bourke purses on roller skates
• Episode 6 photo shoot: YJ Stinger energy drink on a trampoline
• Episode 7 photo shoot: Alter-egos with Ford Mustang
• Episode 8 photo shoot: Verragio diamonds beauty shot with a tarantula
• Episode 9 commercial: Japanese Campbell's Soup commercial
• Episode 11 photo shoot: Geishas in kimonos for T-Mobile phone
• Episode 12 photo shoot: Harajuku-inspired motorcyclists
• Episode 13 photo shoot: CoverGirl Wet Slicks Crystals print ad

Other cast members

• Jay Manuel – Photo Director
• J. Alexander – Runway Coach
• Mathu Anderson – Make-Up Artist
• Danilo – Hairstylist

Makeovers

• Julie - Trimmed and layered
• Kristi - Long chic bangs
• Jennipher - Cut to shoulder length and dyed honey blonde with matching eyebrows
• Kelle - Long wavy extensions
• Cassie - Long curly blonde weave
• Toccara - Wavy shoulder length brown extensions
• Nicole - Lucille Ball inspired cut and dyed red with matching eyebrows
• Norelle - Shaggy bob cut and braces removed
• Ann - Cut shorter with platinum blonde highlights
• Amanda - Long ice blonde extensions
• Yaya - Braids removed and acne treatment
• Eva - Cut shorter and dyed golden blonde

Post-Top Model careers

• Magdalena Rivas does not appear to have modeled since the show ended.
• Leah Darrow modeled some in New York^[16] but quit to become a Catholic author and speaker.^[17]
• Julie Titus does not appear to have modeled since the show ended.
• Kristi Grommet does not appear to have modeled since the show ended.
• Jennipher Frost worked as a marketing manager for a restaurant in Las Vegas^[18] and married former football player Brian Urlacher in 2016.^[19]
• Kelle Jacobs had a spread in Source Magazine^[20] and worked in a corporate role at Estee Lauder.^[21]
• Cassie Grisham received a degree in international communications from the University of Oklahoma and worked for DePuy.^[22]
• Toccara Jones was signed by Wilhelmina Models and has modeled for brands including Ashley Stewart, Avon, Torrid, New York and Company, and Target. She has appeared in Essence, Vibe Magazine, and Smooth Magazine, and had a spread in Vogue Italia.^[23] She has appeared on 106 & Park, Celebrity Fit Club, Celebrity Paranormal Project, and The Tyra Banks Show.^[24] Jones also runs a lingerie company.^[25]
• Nicole Borud moved to San Clemente, California to pursue acting.^[26]
• Norelle Van Herk was signed by Dreamodels in Hong Kong.^[27]
• Ann Markley, who now goes by Annalaina Marks professionally, was signed by Wilhelmina Models in Chicago and has done some modeling since the show for brands including Lord and Taylor,^[28] Old Navy, and Jay Manuel beauty.^[29]
• Amanda Swafford has had some modeling work since the show, including appearing in a campaign for Levi's Jeans.^[30]
• YaYa DaCosta did some modeling work after the show, appearing in ads for companies such as Lincoln Townhouse, RadioShack, Sephora,^[31] Oil of Olay, Dr. Scholl's, and Garnier Fructis.^[32] She is best known as an actress, having appeared in television shows such as All My Children, Ugly Betty,^[33] and Chicago Med. DaCosta has appeared in a number of films, such as I Will Always Love You, Take the Lead, The Kids are Alright, Big Words, Honeydripper,^[34] Lee Daniels' The Butler, In Time, and Tron: Legacy.
• Eva Pigford, who now goes by Eva Marcille professionally, won a contract with CoverGirl, representation by Ford Models, and a spread in Elle.^[35] She has since appeared on the covers of Brides Noir, Women's Health and Fitness, Essence, IONA, and KING Magazine. She has also appeared in campaigns for Samsung, Apple Bottom Jeans, DKNY, and Red by Marc Ecko.^[36] Marcille also pursued an acting career, appearing in The Young and the Restless, House of Payne, and Let's Stay Together. She hosted the reality show My Model Looks Better Than Your Model.^[37] Marcille was on three seasons of Real Housewives of Atlanta from 2017 to 2020.^[38]

Production Issues

In a 2020 Instagram livestream with J. Alexander, Jay Manuel admitted that the rumours that the contestants were detained in Japan upon arriving in Tokyo were “100% true”. He revealed that the judges had already arrived in Tokyo because they fly ahead of the contestants, but upon arriving in Tokyo, customs “thought they were hookers” and didn’t let them in the country.

Luckily, before they could be detained, production “put them back on a plane, flew them to Guam ... for two days ... and from there the girls got proper visas to enter the country”. J. Alexander also revealed that he was meant to meet the girls at the airport and was left waiting for them for hours because he hadn’t been told what was happening. This left him “mad, angry ... furious” because production “completely forgot” about him and he had travelled for “two hours” from Tokyo to the airport to meet them.

Jay also revealed that the show’s stylist was traveling with the contestants but that in Tokyo, they “don’t have showrooms like in a lot of ... European cities, so she traveled with trunks with the clothes for the photo shoots. But she was also “turned away” at customs, got a “black stamp” in her passport and was sent “back to New York”. However she took her trunks with her and production told Jay “guess what now, you’re styling”. They gave him money and him and J. Alexander had to buy all the clothes for the photo shoots in Harajuku whenever they had a free moment. He joked that after that experience “he never wants to style shoots again”.

Manuel has also admitted that the girls being turned away at customs was the “big disaster of Cycle 3” and “did mess up production”. Due to CoverGirl's partnership with ANTM as of Cycle 3, they had a bigger budget and so Manuel was able to produce a “really elaborate commercial which was what the girls were supposed to shoot when they landed in Tokyo”. He described how he built a “huge set” that took a “week to build” and a got a “famous director to shoot it” but once the girls were sent to Guam, production “tore it all down”. When the girls “finally showed up” in Tokyo, production said they couldn’t give Manuel any more money for a new commercial. Manuel says he was extremely angry and production told him it was his problem, which he claims is “very America’s Next Top Model production”.

Eventually they did the commercial, but the robes that the girls were wearing were actually the robes from Manuel’s and Alexander’s hotel, and they shot it on a “patio” with a “reality cam” and no proper lighting. The commercials ended up being judged “an hour later” and Manuel was “mortified”, saying it “looked horrible” and that he was “embarrassed to even say what happened”.

Notes and References

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3. Web site: UPN . September 13, 2004 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20040913032252/http://www.upn.com/shows/top_model3/models/bio/leah.shtml . September 13, 2004 .
4. Web site: UPN . September 13, 2004 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20040913023827/http://www.upn.com/shows/top_model3/models/bio/julie.shtml . September 13, 2004 .
5. Web site: UPN . September 13, 2004 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20040913030400/http://www.upn.com/shows/top_model3/models/bio/kristi.shtml . September 13, 2004 .
6. Web site: UPN . September 13, 2004 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20040913023301/http://www.upn.com/shows/top_model3/models/bio/jennipher.shtml . September 13, 2004 .
7. Web site: UPN . September 13, 2004 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20040913030046/http://www.upn.com/shows/top_model3/models/bio/kelle.shtml . September 13, 2004 .
8. Web site: UPN . September 12, 2004 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20040912041854/http://www.upn.com/shows/top_model3/models/bio/cassie.shtml . September 12, 2004 .
9. Web site: UPN . September 12, 2004 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20040912004528/http://www.upn.com/shows/top_model3/models/bio/toccara.shtml . September 12, 2004 .
10. Web site: UPN . September 13, 2004 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20040913040139/http://www.upn.com/shows/top_model3/models/bio/nicole.shtml . September 13, 2004 .
11. Web site: UPN . September 12, 2004 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20040912234403/http://www.upn.com/shows/top_model3/models/bio/norelle.shtml . September 12, 2004 .
12. Web site: UPN . September 13, 2004 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20040913014137/http://www.upn.com/shows/top_model3/models/bio/ann.shtml . September 13, 2004 .
13. Web site: UPN . September 14, 2004 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20040914023837/http://www.upn.com/shows/top_model3/models/bio/amanda.shtml . September 14, 2004 .
14. Web site: UPN . September 12, 2004 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20040912005809/http://www.upn.com/shows/top_model3/models/bio/yaya.shtml . September 12, 2004 .
15. Web site: UPN . September 12, 2004 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20040912043634/http://www.upn.com/shows/top_model3/models/bio/eva.shtml . September 12, 2004 .
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