CHAT Cassie-ről :

ANTM_Host: We're chatting live with Top Model contestant, Cassie. We'll get to as many of your questions as we can. Let's get started! Hi Cassie and welcome to the chat. Are you ready to answer some questions from the fans?
Cassie: Yes I am definitely ready to answer as many fans' questions as I can.

Britni: What are your thoughts now that you're back in Oklahoma?
Cassie: It never feels good to be eliminated from something but I have enjoyed all the experiences I have gotten from the show. I look forward to continuing on to become a model.

MR__RONA_MAN: Cassie, were you upset to go?
Cassie: Of course I was upset to go. It meant a lot to me to be picked to be on the show. I feel like I could have stayed and offered a lot more than what had already been offered.

CSS_2: Cassie why did you give up like that?
Cassie: I never gave up. I was portrayed on the show as having given up. I was going through a lot with my family and being a little homesick. But personally, in my heart, I never gave up. I plan to continue to pursue modeling regardless if I am on the show or not.

mari: Cassie....why did you not want to be there? You are beautiful and have what it takes? What would have made you stay?
Cassie: You know, I didn't choose to leave. Even though I was frustrated and said I wanted to go home, I was just upset at the time and didn't mean what I said. I don't feel like I could have done anything else to change the judges' decision. I regret that I am portrayed as being so unhappy when really it wasn't that way the whole time.

kena: Cassie were you sort of relieved to be eliminated?
Cassie: Yes and no. I got to go home and be with my uncle, who is better now by the way, and no. This show will hopeful help lead to my career and being cut when I was won't be helpful. After it is all said and done I wish I would have stayed and not been eliminated.

guillermoluvsme: Cassie how is it back in Oklahoma? Do people recognize you and treat you differently since the show began to air?
Cassie: Some people recognize me but it is not like I am a celebrity now. I am still very normal. I am currently in school right now. People have recognized me but it is nothing major.

Adamsville: Cassie, I just wanted to say that you did an awesome job. You have definitely changed since the Adamsville days. Congrats and when do you plan on visiting us down here again?
Cassie: Thank you for the congratulations. I am very busy right now with school and life in general. I hope to come to Adamsville when I get a chance.

BluenaticklisH: Hey Cassie! What was your best moment in your temporary ANTM life?
Cassie: My best moment was being in front of the camera. The photo shoots were my favorite of anything I did. Through that I realized this is what I want to do the rest of my life.

Geddy-D: I know you said that you don't like New York. Is that going to stop you from pursuing a model career? I would hope not. You definitely have what it takes to be a top model.
Cassie: Absolutely not! On the show I was frustrated with my living circumstances and I took it out on New York. Since then I realized I love New York and would move there in a second to further my career.

classy1: Do you think you were ready to leave because of the stress of modeling, the other girls, or your boyfriend?
Cassie: I was never ready to leave. On the show I was portrayed as being unhappy all the time when in actuality it was frustration in moments of time. I never wanted to leave because I realized it was the chance of a lifetime.

drag: We know it is looking at the model during a photo shoot. How is it on your side? What do you see?
Cassie: You are really not focusing on the camera, you are focusing on your look and how you present yourself. I don't think I ever saw the camera!

YayaRocks: Cassie, are you going to lose weight just because that guy told you your hips are too huge?
Cassie: I would never lose weight for someone who didn't want to book me in the first place. I wasn't what he wanted and I accepted that. There are other designers out there who will like me for who I am and my size.

EZE: Hi Cassie, I thought you took great pictures and didn't see why you were conflicted about your weight. Do you still struggle with that?
Cassie: With the industry like it is, I think every model considers her weight. It is cutthroat and if you are too big, the bottom line is you will not get a job. So yes, I do think about my size but I try to do healthy things like run and eat right to be the size I need to be for modeling.

jimmy: Cassie- the people that surround you and the models in NY seem quite freaky. It looked like Halloween last night. Was this affecting your morals? That weird blond dude was off base about your hips.
Cassie: In a photo shoot it is good to look versatile. They were trying to give us different looks and I thought the looks of all the models were beautiful. You can't just have the All-American look all the time! It was the point of the shoot and didn't affect me at all.

Candy: I want to ask if you had previous modeling experience.
Cassie: No, none at all. I am from a small town and never had been given the chance until I got to be on the show. Which is why the show is so great, it gives girls from small areas a chance to see what the modeling world is like.

lisa1: Is being on the show or in front of cameras exhausting?
Cassie: It has its ups and downs. Models don't get a lot of sleep because of all the shows they have to do. So being in front of the cameras allowed us the chance to see what the life of a real model is like.

red_hot_fire: Cassie, what do you think about Ann writing in your brownies?
Cassie: At the time we were all getting annoyed by each other due to the close living conditions. At the time I was very angry because there was already conflict in the house. Now, after watching it, I might have taken it more lightly if we wouldn't have been in the situation we were. Oddly enough, Ann and I are friends now.

guillermoluvsme: Cassie, how were things in the house after the incident with Ann?
Cassie: We really didn't talk at all afterward. We just ignored each other. People started realizing that there was a definite lack of respect for one another's things in the house.

leanna: What were your favorite and least favorite photo shoots?
Cassie: I have two favorite photo shoots. One is the Lee Jeans add because it was fun and sexy. The other was the double composite picture. It was fun being two characters and seeing yourself in one picture. The least favorite was the rollerskating picture for Dooney & Bourke, which happened to be my worst picture in my opinion.

drag: What is you dream modeling photo shoot?
Cassie: Probably a spread for Vogue magazine. A very classic shoot.

yayaaaaaa: Do you think Toccara should have been eliminated instead of you?
Cassie: I never wanted to get eliminated but I think Toccara, in the judges' opinion, was doing better than I was. In their opinion she deserved to stay over me. I can't argue with that because it wasn't up to me. I have to respect what the judges thought.

mari: Cassie, what's the best thing you liked about being there?
Cassie: I liked the photo shoots and feeling like I was a big celebrity model. It was fun! I gained a lot of knowledge from the photographers I got to work with and from Tyra Banks herself, who also taught me a lot.

buckbush: I don't blame you for being upset at Marc for saying your hips were bigger than normal. You look fine and you should revel in yourself. Do you think that the fashion industry is too caught up on weight in general and their expectations or unrealistic?
Cassie: I think the fashion industry is what it is. They are not going to change their standards for one person. I feel like my body was fine. Like I said, not every designer will like how I look. You have to accept that. But it was kind of upsetting to be told I was too big.

PiNk~PoSitiVE: Cassie, you struggled with some sort of bulimia during the show… Are you still bulimic?
Cassie: I was never bulimic. The issue was blown out of proportion. That is what you can expect from reality TV and 14 girls living together. Rumors happen. Gossip happens. I can't change what happened on the show but can tell you now I have never had an eating disorder and have never been close to being bulimic. I have talked to Tyra about throwing up in the past but that was three years ago and only a few times after I had eaten too much and my stomach was hurting. I am sorry I was portrayed as having an eating disorder when it wasn't true. But I will say I do worry about my weight, as I am sure any model does

guillermoluvsme: Cassie, do you regret confiding in Amanda about your eating habit?
Cassie: Yes, I blame myself. A couple of us had gotten together and were talking about things we did in our past. It is something I wish I had never said because I should have known it would be turned into a rumor and blown out of proportion for the sake of reality TV.

miss_lacy: Cassie you mentioned last night that you could not stand any of the girls. Did you try to develop a relationship with any of the girls? From what we see it looks like you stayed to yourself.
Cassie: I did kind of stay to myself because after what Amanda had said, I learned really quickly that the relationships formed in the house weren't completely real. You have to keep in mind that it was a competition and a lot of backstabbing happens when you are competing against other girls.

guillermoluvsme: What do you really think of Janice?
Cassie: I think that Janice is a great woman and that she might be portrayed as a mean person but she also is very wise and her criticism was constructive. After all, she was the first supermodel.

BluenaticklisH: Hey Cassie! Did you like your new hair after the makeover?
Cassie: I did! It was a change for me considering the fact I had never dyed my hair before.

Chillax: Who are your celebrity crushes?
Cassie: I have always had a big crush on Justin Timberlake! There are many celebrity guys I would probably talk to as well.

Lola: Cassie, on the show you said you were previously an exotic dancer? How do you feel about that occupation and how did you leave it?
Cassie: I never wanted to be a dancer. But I'm in college and paying for it by myself. My parents are divorced and my mom is raising three other teenagers. So, I did it to help my mom by not asking for money. Once I got selected for AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL, I left it because I knew from day one I was better than that. And that modeling is more important to me than anything. So obviously if I had the chance to pursue that, it was easy to leave.

Lola: Did you feel the show tried to use your exotic dancing past against you, typecasting you as "too sexy"?
Cassie: No, not at all. Actually after the first episode it was never really mentioned again. Being sexy is controllable and you don't have to be sexy in every picture. And I understood that.

BluenaticklisH: Hey Cassie! Did you eat any of the kangaroos served during last night's episode? If so, how was it?
Cassie: I was a little hesitant to eat a kangaroo. But I did try one bite and it tasted like steak! But it was still weird to eat a kangaroo. It is good to try new things.

leanna: Who was your favorite judge?
Cassie: I liked all the judges. I felt like all of them offered something unique and they all had wisdom in different areas that was helpful in every way for me. I respect them all.

Dezden: Cassie, what was your favorite part of the entire experience?
Cassie: Getting to do the photo shoots I got to do. It was fun being made up and getting your hair done and showing to America what kind of pictures I could take.

dannysgirl: Cassie, why did you try out knowing you didn't want to move to NY?
Cassie: Again I was frustrated at the time when I said I didn't want to move to New York. That was just because of the circumstances I was in. I would move to New York in a second to further my modeling career because it is my dream.

BluenaticklisH: Hey Cassie! What was your family's reaction while watching the show?
Cassie: My mom supported me through the whole thing. There were a lot of things that came out that she wasn't happy about but I am her daughter and she loves me regardless and still supports my dream of becoming a model.

ladybug: Cassie, who's your fave designer?
Cassie: Roberto Cavalli.

thashabatts: How did you find out that you were going to be on the show?
Cassie: I auditioned and they gave me a call back.

BluenaticklisH: Hey Cassie! Why do you not wash your dishes?
Cassie: I actually never really used dishes. Everyone in the house was using the dishes, I just got the blame for it because everyone else was saying they were washing dishes and I didn't care.

drag: How was it working with professional models? Did you learn any thing by watching them?
Cassie: I learned a lot. I continued to learn a lot every day just by looking at them in magazines. It was a great experience being around people who knew so much about modeling.

Stylista: Would you have stayed in NY even if your partner didn't want to move?
Cassie: Yes. I have a very supportive boyfriend and he would never want me to give up on my dream and stay in the same place as him. Before anything he would probably move to where I was.

discoqueen: Cassie, what was the best thing about NYC? What was the worst?
Cassie: With the busy schedule we had, I never got to really experience New York City. But because I was temporarily living here, I took my frustrations out on the city and it really had nothing to do with New York in the end. I can't say anything bad about this city because I love New York now!

drag: What were your thoughts as you were posing for the mustang photo shoot?
Cassie: I kept thinking this is fun, but at the same time it is hard to picture my alter-ego who really isn't here. It was one of the most fun shoots we had.

Positive_Diva: How is your uncle doing?
Cassie: My uncle is actually fine now. He has been sick for a lot of his life and is just happy to be alive every day.

BluenaticklisH: Hey Cassie! During your down moments in the show, what were the things (or who) cheered you up?
Cassie: Being able to talk to my mom and my boyfriend on the phone made me feel better.

drag: Any makeup tips or dressing tips you would like to share?
Cassie: Yes. Use bronzer, and round-toe heels and boots are in for this fall.

Lola: Cassie, do you have any diet tips?
Cassie: No diet tips pertaining to food. But exercise is always beneficial.

thashabatts: Do you have any advice for girls applying for next season?
Cassie: Yes, just don't give up! Just because you live in a small town doesn't mean you won't get a chance. Be yourself and have a good attitude and they will love you.

ANTM_Host: I am sorry to say that our time with Cassie is up. Cassie, thanks so much for being here to chat with us today. Do you have any final comments for the ANTM fans?
Cassie: Thanks for taking the time to be a fan of the show. Just know that I appreciate it and I plan on pursuing my career as a model. I love New York!

ANTM_Host: Thanks for joining us everyone!! Don't miss an exciting new episode of AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL next Wednesday at 8:00PM ET/PT. Then come back for another chat next Thursday afternoon at Noon PT (3 PM ET) to chat with the next eliminated model.