Krista White Is "America's Next Top Model" Cycle 14 (Video)

"ANTop Model" Krista White Comes Out On Top With $100,000 Contract


There is a new queen of the runway. The latest high fashion royalty is Krista, who won CW's "America's Next Top Model."

The 25 year-old from Pine Bluff, Arkansas joyously reacted to Tyra Banks' announcement by saying, "I'm glad that it's somebody like me that other people can look up to and see that she made it, she didn't give up..."

The final four competed in a mile high challenge, while en route to Queenstown, New Zealand. Once back on steady ground, Angelea and Alexandra were eliminated after they didn't get "ugly pretty" enough in a photo shoot.

Top two Raina and Krista were easy, breezy, beautiful Covergirls for a commercial to promote the cosmetics line. Then, they were seventeen again as real cover girls for a Seventeen magazine shoot. Plus, Tyra surprised the girls with family portraits, complete with special visitors--their parents--who got to strike a pose alongside their stunning daughters.

For the grand finale, Raina and Krista rocked the runway for an Anna Sui fashion show. Previously eliminated contestants also got a chance to strut their stuff one last time on the catwalk, alongside cycle 13 winner Nicole.

Who was the ringleader of the three ring circus inspired show? Krista came out on top, taking the title. Meanwhile, Raina didn't twinkle like the star she hoped to be.

The winner of Cycle 14 will be managed by Wilhelmina Models, receive a $100,000 contract with cosmetics giant CoverGirl, and appear on the cover and in a six-page fashion spread of Seventeen magazine.


Sources: America's Next Top Model, AOL, Black Voices, Cover Girl, CWtv, E!Online

Tyra Banks Was A B&*%^#! Hard To Work With...Claims Employees

Tyra Banks Was A terror To Work With, Say Some Employees Of CW Gabfest


"The Tyra Banks Show" may be over, but her former employees have only just begun to spill about what it was really like to work on the CW gabfest.

And we hate to break it to you TyTy, but it's not all good.

"There had been high turnover of employees for years," a past crew member says, insisting that many people quit after just a few months because it was "pretty difficult to work for Tyra."

"She and the higher-ups on the production staff could be extremely brutal," the source says. "She really is a diva."

An industry source who has worked on the show agreed, adding, "Everything had to be done Tyra's way."

But to her credit, Miz Banks isn't the only one who thinks that her way is the right way: the show earned two Daytime Emmys over its relatively short five-season span. And another former staffer who worked closely with Banks says the 36-year-old indeed knows how to make good TV.

"Honestly, I don't know how it would be to work under her," says the snitch, who served in a high-level position. "But for me, it was a good experience. Tyra just knows how she likes things done. And as for her ‘diva-ness,' well, it sells."

So why stop now?

Banks released a statement this week insisting she wants to focus on launching her film company, Bankable Studios, which she says will bring "positive images of women to the big screen."

But it may be her own image that needs polishing. Reports surfaced yesterday that Banks told the press that her show was coming to an end before she even alerted her staff - and according to some past employees, that's more than likely.

"It wouldn't be surprising," our first source says. "When the show moved from L.A. to New York, several staffers weren't even directly told about the change - they heard through the grapevine that it was going to move locations. Even so, a lot of those people gave up their lives on the West Coast so they could continue working for the show. Now they're out of luck."

Reps for the show didn't respond to calls for comment by deadline.



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Sources: NY Daily News, Google Maps