America's Next Top Model Season 9 quotes

[to Jenah about her runway walk] I have to tell you, your walk was terrible!

[in confessional about Heather walking around Shanghai] Heather... [laughs]

[in confessional after being forty minutes late from go-see challenge] I was really disappointed with myself because I didn't make it back in time. This was one of those challenges that really mattered. There was no excuse for why I didn't have enough time.

[to Nigel] I feel like fainting Nigel, you're right in front of me! Oh my goodness!

Nigel

[to Jenah] Your sarcasm is rich!

[to Bianca about Jenah] She was so unprofessional!

[to Bianca and Chantal whilst watching Nigel direct Heather's photoshoot] Dude, I'm telling you, if I had that dress, I would be workin' it!

Bianca

[to Jenah] What would you do with it?

[to Bianca and Chantal] This would be my first pose. [spreads arms out]

Nigel

[to Jenah, Bianca and Chantal while directing Heather] There's a little bit too much noise from the peanut gallery!

Nigel

[about Jenah] She's not a bad girl. She's a good girl. Her personality is getting in the way of herself.

Tyra

[to Heather and Jenah in the bottom two] Both of you girls take probably the strongest photos out of all of the five girls in this room right now. Both how you girls have something when it comes to communication. Not the strongest communicators. With you Heather. [Heather looks worried] If you're so fantastic to us judges and on photoshoots but you can't make it to a "go see it's nearly impossible for you to book a job. Where does Heather stand in this industry? As beautiful as you are standing in front of me, obviously that's not enough and then we have Jenah. Amazing photos but an attitude that turns off the judges. [Jenah nods] So who goes to Beijing? [flips over Jenah's photo] Jenah. [Jenah hugs Heather before coming to collect her photo]

[in confessional after getting eliminated ninth] I really wanted to win. I wanted to prove that I could do this. I first came in here thinking my Asperger's would be way more of a problem than it really was. I thought I wouldn't be able to get along with any of the girls. I'd be too different and since I've been here, I've learned so much. I learned to be more confident and I plan to not always be so self-conscious. I think the experience is much more than a prize.

[in confessional about surviving the bottom two over Heather sarcastically] Being in the bottom two is actually one of the best feelings in the world. You should try it.

Tyra

[to Bianca] Hopefully an agency will sign you with those simple snapshots.

Twiggy

Jenah, you've always been such a strong contender. And I could see when you got the criticism, it was really hurting you, which I understand.

I just hate being misunderstood by my friends.

Girl, it's always gonna happen.

Tyra

What do you think they're misunderstanding?

I just hate that, like, just because I'm not running around like smiling all the time that makes me mean, or makes me think I'm better than people. I don't have to just spew rainbows incessantly just for girls to want to be like me! Or just...just the fact that people want their little sisters looking up to me. That bothers me.

Tyra

Why do have such an armor? There's something protecting you, so why do you think you have that?

I'm used to being really strong and having to be really strong.

Tyra

Why are used to having to do that?

Because I had to be a mom!

Tyra

You had to raise your family.

My little sisters, yeah.

So, then you have some of that resentment towards Momma?

[starts crying] I hate this! I...[sobs] I don't like crying in front of you guys because I don't want you to think that I'm weak.

Tyra

I'd rather see a girl crying in front of me because she's hurt, because she might have missed a lot of her childhood and being a normal girl, then saying "Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh!" Which one is more of a human being that's more likable and vulnerable? This one probably feels a lot more uncomfortable, but it's a lot more real. The other one is just, like, protection. Remember when we did that photo shoot, and you wanted to find yourself and you wanted to climb to the other side of the wall to find who Jenah is?

Yeah.

Tyra

So the real Jenah who she really is is on the other side of that wall!

Tyra

You just did.