What’s your number one goal now?There’s so many things that I want to do. I want to be happy and to get into college. My number one goal right now is to be fully recovered from my eating disorder. I have bulimia and I struggle with anorexia. It’s something I’m being helped with. It’s not something I made up as an excuse for gaining so much weight! Going into the competition, it just kind of slammed down on me because I’d watch all of these girls who are naturally thin. I’m not naturally thin, I’m curvy. I watched them eat normally and pig out sometimes, and I thought I could do that too. But my metabolism was so messed up from years of abuse that my body stored all that food I was eating. So I gained weight.
Do you think your weight was the reason you were eliminated?I really do think so. Yes. Like, 100% yes. I’m sure there are a lot of other factors, but look at who they had to choose between. I know I’m a beautiful girl, but I had gained all this weight so I was extra curvy, and Aminat is like 6’1 and 115 lbs. Even though she might have given the same boring face every week, the question is “who looks more like a model?” It stinks, it really does, but it’s fine. Life goes on.
Do you have a favorite song?"Staralfur" by Sigur Rós. I feel so stupid whenever anyone asks me this because I don’t know how to pronounce it in Icelandic!
Rock on! Seriously, that’s like my favorite band. What else? What can we expect from you in the future ?I want to be a fashion designer. Like...fashion designer-slash-stylist. FIT is my dream school ever since I was like five years old. That would be amazing. It’s not just like, “Oh, I hope to do that.” I know I can do that.
But didn’t you do really poorly with the styling aspect of the Creative Director challenge?The clothing for that challenge was horrible! I didn’t have a lot to work with. I definitely got in trouble for adding too much of my own personality to the styling, but all they meant by that was I added a headband! I was like “Calm down! Everybody wears headbands! It’s not a big deal!”
Would you ever try out for Project Runway?I would totally do that! My best friend tried out for
Project Runway and she made it to the round right before the on-air contestants. I modeled her designs for her audition so I got a great look behind the scenes. It’s something I would love to do, so look out for me!
We will!