Australia’s Next Top Model Doesn’t Appreciate Your Concentration Camp Quips, Viewers
Due to schedule conflicts (believe me, we’re kicking ourselves), we haven’t been able to catch any of the latest season of Australia’s Next Top Model. We’re assured it is quite brilliant, so we definitely feel as though we’ve missed out on something.
We do know someone who had contestant Alice unexpectedly turn up at their house though. From all reports, she was ten kinds of lovely but we presume this is because our dear chum steered the conversation away from all things Auschwitz related.
She’s been the central figure in the ongoing skinny debate, but Australia’s Next Top Model contender Alice Burdeu has been given the big fat thumbs up from judges and viewers of the series.
Producers of the Fox 8 reality show have been criticised for not enforcing stricter measures on Burdeu’s slim situation, but the willowy redhead surged ahead in the contest last night when she was named as one of the two remaining finalists.
While Burdeu is the favourite to take out the catwalk crown over Stephanie Hart next Tuesday, the 19-year-old said she thought the backlash over her waif-like shape would work against her in the poll.
“Can you imagine reading that you look like you’re from a concentration camp?” Burdeu said, referring to a concerned viewer’s comment.
Hitting back at claims she suffered from an eating disorder, the 58kg, 185cm tall glamour girl said she had always been naturally thin.
“People can think what they want but I’m happy with the way I am,” Burdeu said.
“My family and friends know that Idon’t have a problem – if anything I eat too much chocolate.”
Isn’t it strange that it’s always the scrawniest celebrities who claim to enjoy nothing better than eating whole lumps of fat… when they’re not busy “not exercising”.
Of course, we believe Alice is nothing like that. Because something tells us she’s kinda scary and powerful, and we love her. Please don’t beat us to death with a giant block of Cadbury’s Diary Milk chocolate, you flaming piece of hotness!
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Alice from Australia’s next top model is the most foul excuse for a ‘model’ that there is. she is lanky, pale, too thin, red hair, freckles and complains like theres no tomorrow. she only won becuase of her age and that is highly unfair. i think that the judges were biased based on age and when you look at it steph had more of a chance to become a highly respected australian model. i hate alice
I agree with Kez. Alice is a whinger and a sook and just could not get her stuff together. She needed to leave way earlier. Australia loves Steph.
I find Alice to be WAY too skinny. No offence to her, I understand she doesn’t have an eating problem, but what sort of image is she portraying to young girls?
Man, she looks like a cicada, its disturbing. She looks like she will break any second and I HONESTLY do NOT think she is a good ambassador for australian women.
Think again.
I think Alice is beautiful and a fantastic ambassador for Australian women. Yes she is pale, has red hair and is skinny and she is not the stereotypical image of beauty, but she is still beautiful. I believe that she is portrayng the image that it is alright to not look like the hollywood version of beauty and still be apreciated for your looks.
Just because alice whinged alot doesnt change anything..She had the perfect height, Yer she had red hair? So do i so get over it…Steph was still better but It was fair that Alice got it..Steph tried harder but shes still a young girl.
We all know shes gunna become a model still anyway so can’t you’s just get over it???
Throughout the show, Alice appeared incapable of taking direction on fashion shoots and equally unable to think for herself or show initiative.
Steph seemed far more mature despite her age; the classic for me was when Thorpie asked Alice to try and channel a time when she had felt real anger for a shoot and all the girl could come up with was the day when she’d had to put on damp swimmers.
But then her winning showed what the whole modelling industry is about; its the genes you’re born with, not whether you are a nice or clever person
Or maybe I just need to get out more
I love Alice. She’s high fashion and has model written all over her. Australia’s next top Model is not a popularity contest anyhow.
There are 1000 pretty girls like Steff but there was nothing unique or outstanding in my opinion.
Alice ROCKS and it only shows how little credibility the so called ‘judges’ (Jonathon etc) have when the industry professionals all picked Alice.
i am from Amsterdam, Holland and based in Paris , currently working in the fashionindustry. Ive seen Season 3 of Australias next
top Model on YouTube and all i can say is that Alex Perry needs to get updated concerning the minimum BMI requirements needed for models to get on the catwalk here.
Alice, with her BMI far underneath the BMI required, will not be accepted
on ANY catwalk and with her current BMI she is 100% disqualified for the
Milan, Paris, Amsterdam and London catwalks.
Regarding Alice: “…..But then her winning showed what the whole modelling industry is about; its the genes you’re born with, not whether you are a nice or clever person…”
Ehh excuse me ?
Who was dumb as a door ? (hint: not the redhead).
Who was nice and kind, and not a backstabbing blindly-following sheep; And when pressed delivered excruciatingly clever critiques of her bullies (hint: the redhead).
Sure, her ‘energy-levels, creativity, backstabbing and bitching abilities were not impressive. Those things are however ultimately irrelevant.
It is absurd that the majority of Alice’s detractors are either 1) members of the pro-Steph camp and 2) ironically suffer from their own form of weight prejudice.
For those in camp numero uno, I do not think it strengthens your argument to assert, essentially, that Alice sucks because Steph is a better model. Both are models of different calibers, and cater to different markets. As has been stated numerous times during the show, Steph caters more to the commercial stream, whereas Alice is more international. All you need to do is pick up a copy of Vogue and watch runway shows in Milan and Paris to see the validity of this statement. I agree completely with Alex Perry – by no means is AusNTM a competition based on personality, nor is it a contest intended to decide on which girl embodies the quintessential ‘Aussie’ personality (as an aside, would Aussies really want ignorant xenophobic beach girl Steph representing Australia abroad?) It is about picking a model who can be the most successful as an international model. I do think that the producers were trying to give AusNTM more legitimacy by actually picking a girl with valid credentials this time around, as opposed to the disasters that were Ebony and Gemma in S 1 and 2.
For those in the second camp, although I do not dispute the existence of anorexia in modeling circuits, some people – whether we like it or not – really ARE naturally skinny. Drawing uncalled for comparisons between Alice and Nazi concentration camp victims is particularly dreadful and uncalled for; this is as appalling as criticizing, say, Cassandra for being heavier. Policing women’s weights merely reinforces the notion that women’s bodies need to perpetually be policed, controlled, and scrutinized. There has been no evidence that Alice has an eating disorder aside from people making the claim that she does simply upon seeing her on TV. Thus, let’s all stop with the Alice acrimony. Go Alice!
The fact is modelling is about being skinny and some people are naturally that skinny. Alice has been critisized by people for having an eating disorder when the only nutritionist who actually consulted with her deemed her healthy. There is no argument.
The post above says all the things I wanted too, spot on.
It is clear that she had the most real potential to be a working model.
She had it in the bag the whole time.
Ahhh time has passed and those who thought Alice was a ‘foul excuse for a model’ and Steph would make a better respected model in Australia must be feeling very foolish indeed. Everytime I turn on Fashion TV there is Alice at Paris, New York, Milan, London and Australian fashion weeks. And she’s signed to Elite in New York, she’s done D&G campaigns and shows for Lanvin, McQueen, Marc Jacobs, Luella, Vuitton, Jil Sander and Dries Van Noten to name but a few…. And what of Steph? Isn’t she making muffins somewhere? Hey even Danica Brown from the same cycle is doing better then Steph model wise, as she is still signed to Priscilla’s Model Agency and Steph isn’t…… Steph was too short and had the wrong body shape, age had NOTHING to do with it….Being pretty does not maketh the model…..