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Earlier today, we provided brief backgrounds on a few season 11 America's Next Top Model contestants.

However, Isis - a 22-year-old former receptionist - deserves her own profile. How come? Because she's the first-ever transgender model on the show.

"My cards were dealt differently," Isis told Us Weekly, identifying herself as "a woman born physically male."

The inclusion of Isis on the show is being hailed by GLAAD president Neil Giuliano as "an unprecedented opportunity for a community that is underrepresented on television.

"We applaud Tyra Banks and The CW for making this historic visibility of transgender people possible," Giuliano said.

Tyra Banks will be self-absorbed and annoying.

There's an obvious spoiler for cycle 11 of America's Next Top Model.

Below, meanwhile, let's meet a trio of contestants on the new season, which kicks off September 3. Will one of the following walk away with the crown?

Name: Analeigh
Age: 19
Hometown: Sacramento, CA
Occupation: Student

Name: Brittany
Age: 19
Hometown: Henderson, Nevada
Occupation: Customer Service

Name: Clark
Age: 19
Hometown: Pawleys Island, South Carolina
Occupation: Student

Come back tomorrow when we'll introduce readers to more contestants on the new season of America's Next Top Model!

The next cycle of America's Next Top Model kicks off September 3.

In the ad for the series below, star Tyra Banks feels the love. And the effcts of photoshop.

America’s Next Top Model's 11th season is about to kick off, premiering on the CW September 3 at 8 p.m. with a special, two-hour episode.

Despite rumors that host Tyra Banks would leave the show, it seems she’s on board and getting ready to be annoying all over again! Nice!

Meanwhile, auditions for the 12th season kick off August 4 in Albuquerque and conclude in September in Los Angeles. The CW notes, however, that more dates may be added. Follow the jump for the audition dates:Continue Reading...

No major news on the America's Next Top Model front, but we have learned the following two pieces of information regarding season 11, currently being filmed:

• Five models, as opposed to the usual six, will go abroad with the show's judges. Their destination? Amsterdam.

• Once there, it's being reported that the final five will participate in a photo shoot with pieces from jewelry designer, Rodrigo Otazu. He has provided pieces for runway shows for everyone from Christian Lacroix to Jean-Paul Gaultier. Otazu He has also had his jewelry worn by celebrities such as Britney Spears and Aretha Franklin.

For all the attention America's Next Top Model champion she has received for being the first plus-size model to win the competition, Whitney Thompson has a message for readers:

This isn't valid.

"I'm not really plus-size in real life, I'm regular," Thompson recently told reports. "I'm the weight I'm supposed to be and that's considered plus-size, and what kind of message is that sending to girls and boys all over the world?"

As for the goals she has for her newfound fame?

"No one from the generation behind me has anyone to look up to. Truly all of their role models are in rehab or have eating disorders, and I feel like it might be a lost generation because of that," the model said. "I'm not saying no to anything. I really want to work and work and work and just get everything I want to out there."

Take advantage of those 15 minutes while you can, Whitney. It's a solid strategy.

Fatima Siad doesn't think Whitney Thompson deserved to win the tenth cycle of America's Next Top Model. And she's not shy about saying so.

"When [Claire Unabia] and [Lauren Utter] and [Katarzyna Dolinska] got kicked off, I was just like this whole thing is a joke," Siad told reporters during a conference call yesterday.  "They look like models.  If this supposed to be a modeling competition, one of them should have won or [Anya Kop] should have won.  But it goes to show you that it might be about politics."

Would you consider Whitney Thompson to be a plus-sized model?

Siad reached that conclusion because Thompson is considered the first-ever full-figured woman to win the show's crown,

"Whitney took great pictures and she definitely knows how to conduct herself - she's very outspoken and she speaks really well," said Siad. "I think that's why she won over Anya, otherwise I wanted Anya to win.  Anya has that high-fashion look and she really knows how to model.  But she lacks the confidence and speech skills that Whitney has."

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Congratulations, Whitney Thompson!

In what was seen as an upset in the eyes of many viewers, this plus-size beauty won America's Next Top Model last night.

"There's definitely times I've looked in the mirror and looked at other girls and thought, I wasn't like them," said the the 20-year-old Florida native. "I want other women in America to feel good about themselves…It's amazing to be America's Next Top Model. This is exactly what I want. This is what I've always wanted!"

Winning America's Next Top Model means Thompson will be on the cover of Seventeen magazine. She also receives a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics.

Here's a photo montage of the model. Click on each thumbnail now for a larger version...

Sarah VonderHaar was a contestant on cycle eight of America's Next Top Model. Now, she's a budding solo artist.

The former hopeful model recently released her solo debut album.

"I've been writing songs since I was 12," Sarah told the Shaumberg Review, a local newspaper in her home state of Illinois. "You know how you get the guitar in a boxed set with a little amp and a book? I learned a few chords and would sing along and play my guitar, really poorly."

The name of Sarah's album is "Are You Listening Now" and the title track was written about her father, who died of a drug overdose.

"He started doing drugs when I was about 14 and died when I was 17," she said. "It took me four years to get ready to write that song, and when I finally did, I wrote it in 20 minutes."

The former reality TV star still lives with her parents and holds down a job at a local Pizza Hut. She also refuses to call music her day job.

"I never consider music a job," she said. "I love creating something from nothing."

Here's a recap of three reality TV shows from last night, one focused on models, one focused on a farmer and one focused on cooks. Such diversity...

America's Next Top Model: We start out this week with Whitney in confessional and voiceovers. She is stunned that she was allowed to remain as Katarzyna was sent home. She realizes that she has to relax and not be to posey. She has to bring it on to make it to the final two... -- Reality News Online

Farmer Wants a Wife: On this episode, Matt has the girls get down and dirty with some pigs, then takes them out on the town for a wild night of playing bingo with the elderly... -- BuddyTV

Top Chef: Speed and stamina were two ingredients the eight remaining chef-testants needed to stay in the competition this week. Dividing into two teams of four and with immunity no longer offered in the Quickfire Challenge the relay race was on... -- TV Guide