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Naima Named "Next Top Model"
As the latest winner of America's Next Top Model, Naima Mora probably feels like she could walk on water right about now. But then, she already has.
The 20-year-old coffee-shop waitress from Detroit outshone, outfierced and most importantly, outstomped her competition on Wednesday night's fourth-season finale of Tyra Banks' catwalk-strutting reality show.
The trained dancer beat out competition from the confident but catty Keenyah, 19, ("Naima's my biggest competition, but not because she's good...because the judges see something special in her that I don't see"), and ultimately went model a model with Oklahoma restaurant hostess, Kahlen, 21. (UPN did not release the last names of the other contestants.)
The moment of truth came when the dueling strutters took to a partially submerged runway, and while Kahlen ended the season with a stronger portfolio, Naima's presence and progress won over the judges, earning her the show's coveted title of America's Next Top Model.
After the longest deliberation in the show's four-season history, Mora was awarded a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl, a spread in Elle magazine and a contract with Ford models.
The self-proclaimed "reformed wild child" was a fan favorite all season long, being voted CoverGirl of the Week for an unprecedented 10 weeks in a row.
"I was forced to look inside Naima and see what makes me me, what makes me beautiful, and I found it," the tearful winner said. "I felt I had to win this?because I represent something more than myself. I represent a black girl, a Mexican girl, I'm part Irish, I'm everything."
Naima joins fellow Model winners Adrienne Curry, Yoanna House and Eva Pigford. Season one's Curry recently appeared on the fourth installment of VH1's Surreal Life, where she met her current boyfriend, former Brady boy Christopher Knight.
Second cycle winner House nabbed a Sephora campaign and replaces The View's Elisabeth Hasselbeck as the new host of Style network's The Look for Less, debuting this summer.
The most recent title holder, the diva-like Pigford, made the most of her CoverGirl contract and landed a guest-starring role in Taye Diggs' UPN drama, Kevin Hill.
The contestants aren't the only ones benefiting from the popularity of the show. Model has become UPN's most watched show, with the latest season averaging 5 million viewers and consistently ranking high in demo of women 18-49.
Meanwhile, hostess with the mostest Banks is doubling her screen time this fall with her own daytime talk show, set to follow an Oprah-like format, while the panel's most feared judge, Janice Dickinson, has signed on for the fifth season of The Surreal Life's D-list delights.
America's Next Top Model is now accepting applications for the show's next edition.
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