She definitely is the most 'model' looking in my opinion. HOWEVER, does she really expect to be able to be a working model when when she can't use many makeup products because of allergies and is less mobile because of her back?
It's unfortunate. But that's just the way it is.
I thought that she was already a model.
shareI thought that she was already a model.
Honestly, this is just my personal opinion but I don't know if I buy Courtney's story. It's just insanely coincidental that she has almost every sob story ever told on ANTM all wrapped up into one, she hits 3 of the 4 BINGO cards (family was homeless, disease, kicked out, the 4th was minority).
I don't know, I can believe that they did happen but maybe not to the extent we're all assuming. The whole competition she's reminded me of a friend I had growing up who was great at knowing how to get pity; she also didn't have a super great childhood and always seemed sick, basically she somehow made her issues fit any situation (if she was a bad person it was because of her mom, if she didn't do well it was because of her asthma and/or anxiety) And yes, she did have those things, but damn was she able to manipulate us with our sympathy for her situation. And they weren't even as bad as other people I'd met later in life, they usually went out of their way to downplay those things because they see it as a burden on others.
That's what it is, usually people who have a hindrance in the competition don't constantly bring it up (I'm thinking about the allergies and scoliosis) and someone whose gone through what she has you'd think would be less likely to complain, and yet she is notorious for it.
Well maybe it affects their self esteems.
I had a friend who's mother killed her sister and everyone at work said, "Oh stop bringing up things like that just for attention". I found it so odd that people turned on her like that. I asked them why and they said it was "weird" that she would tell people that.
I was all, well it is her life. Is she supposed to make up a nicer story to please you??? I thought they were weird for having NO empathy.
I agree Courtney should stop though for her own sake.
Well that's what confuses me, it's not that she has too low self-esteem, it's actually surprisingly high for everything she's gone through. That's not bad, but it's just really unusual. Most people I know in those situations are like Giah where they don't bring it up because they're used to living in a world where nobody cares to hear their excuses.
I feel like what I'm trying to say isn't coming across right, I don't believe that Courtney is lying for attention or lying at all, I'm just not able to wrap my head around her as a person.
Maybe I'm more thrown off by the fact that she was considered one of the House Villains the entire season until we hear her story and everyone does a 180 and rushes to her defense when it's not that black-and-white. I like to examine ways that the past affects a person, but also don't think it should excuse her behavior because Courtney will realistically not make it as a model if she can't get over this issue, she can't hope every person she meets will let her get by on sympathy.
At least Drew giving her a talking-to last panel actually lit a fire under her butt, it was weird to see someone with such a humbling past only start to act that way after her position in a competition was threatened.