America's Next Top Model, Cycle 4

America's Next Top Model (2003-) is an American reality television show created and hosted by Tyra Banks in which several young women (regularly called "girls" on the show) compete to win a modeling contract. Each "cycle" of the show constitutes roughly half of a regular U.S. TV season (9-14 episodes).

Tyra:
[to Tiffany and Rebecca in the bottom two] Will Tiffany and Rebecca please step forward? [Tiffany and Rebecca step forward] The two of you stand before me for very different reasons— Rebecca, you stand before me, best high fashion body of the bunch, and you want this very badly; you try very hard, but we feel that your progress is just this [imitates a plateau], just safe. [to Tiffany] Tiffany, you stand before me because everyone wants this more for you than you do— your grandmother wants this so badly for you. Sometimes when our lives are so hard and so difficult and something that is so fantastic comes about, sometimes we feel like we're not worth it. And if you don't feel like you're worth it, then these judges behind me won't believe, and I won't believe. We think you might need some time to build some self-esteem and learn to love yourself. This is a very difficult decision, and you've put me in a very difficult place... [flips over the last photo, which is a blank sheet on both sides] Tonight, both of you must pack your bags. [the seven remaining girls look stunned, and Kahlen is the first one to start crying] Thank you both. [Tiffany and Rebecca go over to say their goodbyes, with Rebecca crying as she does so]

Tiffany:
Cheer up, waterheads! What are y'all looking sad for? [to Michelle] Ow, stop— you're breaking my back. [while looking over, Tyra suddenly snarls, then Tiffany and Rebecca finish giving out hugs to exit]

Tyra:
Can you guys stand in front of me? I just want to say one more thing to you. [Tiffany and Rebecca step back in front of her]

Rebecca:
[to Tyra] Yeah.

Tyra:
[to Tiffany] Rebecca, I admire your emotion right now. It shows to me that this is something that's very important to you.

Rebecca:
[to Tyra] Yeah.

Tyra:
[to Tiffany] Tiffany, I'm extremely disappointed in you. This is a joke to you. You've been through anger management, you've been through your grandmother getting her lights turned off to buy you a swimsuit for this competition, and you go over there and you joke, and you laugh? This is serious to these girls, and this should be serious to you.

Tiffany:
[to Tyra] Looks can be deceiving. I'm hurt. I am, but...I can't change it, Tyra. I-I've been...

Janice:
[to Tiffany] Yes you can.

Tyra:
[to Tiffany] You can't change what?

Tiffany:
[to Tyra] I'm sick of crying about stuff that I cannot change. I'm sick of being disappointed, I'm sick of all of it. I'm not...

Tyra:
[to Tiffany] You're not sick of being disappointed, Tiffany.

Tiffany:
[to Tyra] Yes. Obviously, I am.

Tyra:
[to Tiffany] No, you're not. If you were sick of being disappointed, you would stand up, and you would take control of your destiny. Do you know that you had a possibility to win?! Do you know that all of America is rooting for you? Do you know that? And then you come in here, and you treat this like a joke? You come in here and look at that, and say, "I can't read that?" You read ten times better than half of those girls over there!

Nigel:
[to Tiffany] You did.

Nole:
[to Tiffany] You did.

Tyra:
[to Tiffany] And you come in here with a defeatist attitude.

Tiffany:
[to Tyra] I don't have a bad attitude! Maybe I am angry inside! I've been through stuff, so I'm angry!

Tyra:
[to Tiffany] Yes, but this is not... This is not, it's...

Tiffany:
[to Tyra] Everybody...

Tyra:
[to Tiffany] Be quiet, Tiffany! Be quiet! What is wrong with you?

Tiffany:
[to Tyra] That's what I'm trying to say but you...

Tyra:
[to Tiffany] STOP IT!!!!!!!! [Tiffany looks at Rebecca] I have never in my life yelled at a girl like this! When my mother yells like this it's because she loves me! I was rooting for you, we were all rooting for you! How dare you?! Learn something from this! When you go to bed at night, you lay there and you take responsibility for yourself because nobody's going to take responsibility for you! You're rolling your eyes and you act like it's because you've heard it all before - you've heard it all before - you don't know where the hell I come from! You have no idea what I've been through. But I'm not a victim; I grow from it and I learn! Take responsibility for yourself! [both Tiffany and Rebecca leave the judging panel]

Rebecca:
I've never seen Tyra that way ever, and I can't even imagine her being that way. But, she's angry because she thinks Tiffany hasn't changed, and that she takes this as a joke, and that everyone wants this so bad for her but she doesn't even want it for herself; I think Tyra might be really right about that.

Tiffany:
[as she packs up her belongings] I'm not gonna break down for you or nobody else— you ain't done shit for me besides bring me here and put me through hell all these weeks.

Rebecca:
[in confessional after being eliminated] I'm really disappointed right now, but not everyone can say they've done this, and I can put that check mark next to it. [her and Tiffany's portfolios are shown] I'm walking away here knowing a lot more about the business and especially about myself, and what my priorities are, family is number one. I'm going home to get married, and we'll take it from there.

Tiffany:
Tyra... she was right. The only thing that was keeping me here was my grandma and my child; and I tried to hang in for my grandma, my grandma just wants the best for me. A part of me did give up, I was being very disrespectful, but I'm taking a lot home with me— [in confessional after being eliminated]— Tyra really did care about me, her yelling at me. I have the utmost respect for her, because she could've easily said "Okay, whatever" and, you know, "Bye". That showed me that she saw deeply into me and she cared about me, and that's cool knowing, you know, Tyra cares about you. I'm gonna go home and have a good life now and be the best Tiffany I can be. [Tiffany and Rebecca roll their suitcases out of the house and continue onto the sidewalk, and they both fade from the Cycle 4 made over group because they are now eliminated and only seven girls remain]

Brittany:
[to Keenyah] You're very selfish. Very selfish. Like you didn't have the money. You didn't have rands but you ordered drinks. How were you going to pay for your drinks then? Explain that! How?! How?! How?!

Keenyah:
[to Brittany] Brittany!

Brittany:
[to Keenyah] How?! With what?! With our looks?!

Keenyah:
[to Brittany] No! If you want to think I am selfish then you go ahead and think I am selfish! Are you listening?

Brittany:
[to Keenyah] No. [in confessional about Keenyah, Nelson Mandela's jail cell experience and Naima] It just comes back to her selfish tendencies. Like in Nelson Mandela's jail cell, you just automatically think because...you know, you're black, that you should be the one to open the cell. I know this experience means a lot to Naima as well. [to Keenyah about Naima and Nelson Mandela] You didn't like that she got the key. When he gave her the key, and you cried about it, you didn't even know if he was still alive or not!

Keenyah:
[to Brittany] Whatever!

Brittany:
[to Keenyah about Nelson Mandela] You were so emotional over someone that you didn't know was alive or dead!

Kahlen:
[in confessional about Brittany and Keenyah] I hate listening to people yell and just scream at each other because there are other ways, you know, to deal with that stuff.

Keenyah:
[to Brittany about Nelson Mandela's jail cell experience and Naima] After she opened the key, it was an emotional moment for me. You were not in my shoes, you don't know how I felt at that moment! So you can go ahead and say, "She felt annoying"!

Naima:
[in confessional about Nelson Mandela's jail cell experience] I'm thinking in my head, "Wow. Thank God, Naima, you got to hold that key in your hands. Because obviously these girls don't hold that experience at such high esteem as you do."

Brittany:
[to Keenyah about the experience in South Africa] You are just taking this because you're black. You've said a million times. "This whole experience means so much to me because I'm black."

Keenyah:
[to Brittany about the experience in South Africa] It means more to me because it's about who I am and where I came from.

Brittany:
[to Keenyah about the experience in South Africa imitating Keenyah] "Yeah. It's my land!"

Keenyah:
[to Brittany about the experience in South Africa] Yeah! What do you think?! Yeah, it's because I'm black!

Brittany:
[to Keenyah] OH! MY! GOD!

Keenyah:
[to Brittany about the experience in South Africa] You don't know what the hell I'm thinking!

Brittany:
[to Keenyah] SHUT UP!!!!!!!

Keenyah:
[to Brittany about the experience in South Africa] You have no idea! [looks shocked]


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