The twelfth cycle of ''

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'' premiered on March 4, 2009 and was the sixth season to air on

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network. The cycle's catch phrase is "Get In The Fold." The cycle's promotional song was

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's "The Fame". The winning prizes for this season were: * A modeling contract with

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. * A fashion spread and cover in

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. * A 100,000 contract with

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cosmetics. The first half of the cycle took place in

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, moving the show back from Los Angeles last season. The international destination for this cycle is

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, Brazil, the show's first, and only, visit to

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. The number of girls was reduced to 13, the first time since cycle 9, after being maintained at 14 in the last two cycles. This was the last time

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participated as judge. The winner was 20-year-old Teyona Anderson from

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, with

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placing as the runner up. This season averaged 4.35 million viewers per episode.

Contestants

''(Ages stated are at start of contest)''

Episodes

Cycle 12 Finale Party (Reunion)

The reunion aired May 13, 2009 on ''

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'' and was the third one after cycles 5 and 10. It was graduation themed and all the girls (except for Sandra, who didn't attend) wore bikinis. The girls were voted yearbook-style as follows: Various girls were interviewed after their vote was revealed. Fo revealed she had met her father, whom she didn't know was

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until she was six. Fo claimed that she had coined the phrase "

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" at 12, despite the fact that the term first appeared in the United States in the 1980s. Celia got her one featurette about her personal style and London went on to preach on the streets of New York City. Tyra also discussed Allison's nosebleeding picture of her and Tyra made a montage of her and Robert Pattinson. Natalie revealed she suffered from panic attacks and hypochondria. Tyra brought a general from the US Army to discuss her positive impact on burnt soldiers and Tahlia did a shoot with a burnt soldier and another burn survivor where they displayed their scars. It was also revealed that Tahlia had become pregnant since the taping of the show. Then elderly people reenacted memorable scenes introduced by

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from cycle 9. Those included Fo's haircut, Celia's rebellion against Tyra and Natalie's and Aminat's face off. Celia said that all things were settled between her and Tahlia and when Tyra said "Don't mess with a girl's money", Celia joked back that Tahlia was messing with hers. The show ended with Tyra revealing that two contestants had been offered a contract with Nous Model Management by Kenya Knight which were revealed on her show's website as being Allison and Fo.

Summaries

Call-out order

: The contestant was eliminated : The contestant won the competition

Bottom two

: The contestant was eliminated after their first time in the bottom two : The contestant was eliminated after their second time in the bottom two : The contestant was eliminated after their third time in the bottom two : The contestant was eliminated after their fourth time in the bottom two : The contestant was eliminated in the final judging and placed as the runner-up

Average call-out order

Casting call-out order and final two are not included.

Photo Shoot Guide

*Episode 1 photo shoot (casting): Goddess profile/type of goddess *Episode 2 photo shoot: Childhood games *Episode 3 photo shoot: Lighting oneself in a warehouse *Episode 4 photo shoot: Couture

sight-seeing in pairs *Episode 5 photo shoot: Ellis Island immigrants *Episode 6 photo shoot: Beauty shots evoking different colors *Episode 7 Commercial: CoverGirl micro mineral foundation *Episode 9 photo shoot: Crazed Ciara fans tangled in wires *Episode 10 photo shoot: Embodying Carmen Miranda on a

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*Episode 11 photo shoot: Swimsuits on a tourist beach *Episode 12 photo shoot: Exotic birds *Episode 13 photo shoot & Commercial: CoverGirl outlast lipstain print ad and commercial & ''Seventeen Magazine'' covers

Makeovers

* Jessica - Cut to shoulder-length with dark red highlights * Nijah - Long black weave * Kortnie - Trimmed and dyed red * Sandra - Buzz cut and dyed blonde * Tahlia - Shoulder-length golden blonde weave * London -

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inspired cut and dyed platinum blonde * Natalie - No makeover * Fo - Pixie cut * Celia - Cut short and dyed platinum blonde * Aminat -

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inspired long weave * Allison - Long blonde extensions and eyebrows lightened * Teyona - Slicked-back jheri curl weave; later, long curly weave

Post-''Top Model'' careers

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has modeled for the

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and ''

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''. She has also been featured on Racked.com, in the September 2009 issue of ''Allure'' and in ''Short Hair''. She has appeared on ''The Tyra Banks Show, and'' walked in

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2011 for Marlon Globel. * Teyona Anderson was signed was

in New York, United States and Cape Town, South Africa. She is currently signed with Mega Models in Miami, and Base Model Agency in Cape Town under the name "Asia Anderson". *Aminat Ayinde has modeled for Zulu Rose and walked in the This Day/Arise: African Fashion Collection S/S 10 show. She is signed to MMG Models in New York. She modeled on

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for Emilio Sosa and on season 14 for Edmond Nelson for his finale collection wearing his first look. *Tahlia Brookins has modeled for ''

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''. *Kortnie Coles is currently signed with

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in New York City and

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in London. *Isabella Falk is currently signed with Elite Model Management in Chicago under her real name, Kelly Marie. * Nijah Harris has modeled for ''That Girl''. *

was signed with Nous Model Management in Los Angeles. She competed in cycle 17 among other previous contestants, finishing in second place to

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. She appeared in the final episode of cycle 21. She has walked in New York Fashion Week 2012 for

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, Gemma Khang, and Richie Rich. She also walked in

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for Michael Cinco. She is the face of Cinco's fragrance "Impalpable". She also modeled for Bench in "Bench Universe". She runs an art and photography studio in Brooklyn. On September 21, 2012, it was announced that Harvard would be making her acting debut as the character Carina in the independent feature film ''Insensate''. On October 6, 2012, Harvard made an appearance in an episode of "I Am Meg: Own the World in Style", a Philippines TV modeling competition. *London Levi appeared in the October 2009 issue of ''

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''. *Sandra Nyanchoka was signed with Major Model Management in New York. * Natalie Pack is currently signed with

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in Miami and

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in Los Angeles. She has modeled for ''Jockey'' and ''BL!SSS''' July 2009 issue. She walked for

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and Dona Daneshi's "I Am Mystic". She later crowned

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2012 and competed in

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. *Fo Porter is currently signed with Nous Model Management in Los Angeles. She has modeled for H&M, Revolve clothing and ''Nylon''. She also had campaigns with

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, Abercrombie & Fitch, Billabong,

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and Payless. She was featured in the music videos for Justin Timberlake's "

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" and Usher's "

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". *Jessica Santiago is currently signed with

in Los Angeles. She participated in Nuestra Belleza Latina, but was eliminated before the contestants were chosen. She also competed in Model Latina where she finished as the runner-up. She was a contestant in Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2011, and placed as the second runner-up.

Trivia

* In an Instagram post uploaded in August 2019, Nigel Barker uploaded a post featuring the photos that he shot from episode 11, describing São Paulo as “one of my favourite Top Model locations”. *In an interview with ‘Inside the Reality Studio’, Celia Ammerman revealed that when Natalie was eliminated, she and Tyra Banks had a “screaming fight” where Natalie called Tyra out on “bullshit”. *Ammerman also revealed that before she revealed to the judges that Tahlia did not want to be in competition, Banks came up to the contestants and said “Girls, you know we don’t know what goes on in the house. So if you have anything to tell us, now is the time to say it.” Ammerman says she “definitely wasn’t forced to do it” and that she takes “full responsibility” for the incident but upon hearing Tyra she “was like ‘oh ok!’”.

Notes

References

External links

Official website
* {{America's Next Top Model A12 2009 American television seasons Television shows shot in the Las Vegas Valley Television shows filmed in New York City Television shows filmed in São Paulo (state)