ANTM-Cycle 11

[gee_ess]

Originally Posted by whiteandblack

I think they made the right decision sending elina home. her posture and facial expressions seem so... fixed.

I agree, and were you as shocked as I was to learn she is only 18? I would have guessed 24 -25. I think Elina has a dark secret. Something that keeps her from "letting loose" like they keep talking about. Maybe she struggles with depression or something. She definitely has some sort of emotional wall she hides behind.

That is my attempt at armchair psychology!

[33girl]

Ellina had talked in past episodes about her frosty relationship w/ her mom. I'm sure that's part of it. But I had forgotten that she is only 18 and shared in Tyra's when she was reminded.

I'm really not sure how this is going to go. I thought Sheena had it in the bag.

Has anyone else noticed they aren't doing "Cover Girl of the Week" anymore? I think people kept stuffing the ballot box w/ votes contradictory to the judges' choices so they canned it.

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by gee_ess

I agree, and were you as shocked as I was to learn she is only 18? I would have guessed 24 -25. I think Elina has a dark secret. Something that keeps her from "letting loose" like they keep talking about. Maybe she struggles with depression or something. She definitely has some sort of emotional wall she hides behind.

That is my attempt at armchair psychology!

Hmmm....my turn to psychologize her. Elina's an adamant vegetarian, very strongly invested in human/animal rights, kind of swingy on sexuality...very "liberal," in a word. My guess would be her mom holds opposite values and really rejected Elina's lifestyle, especially the sexuality piece (parents tend to get uptight about that). That's why Elina hates her mom, but at the same time blasts people who don't hold the same values she does. She is fighting for the right to have her own identity and do things her way which makes her a control freak; scared that people will reject her so she remains emotionally guarded; but yet she still rails against those who don't think like her because that's how she has been treated and is therefore all she knows.

Yes, I pulled all of that out of my butt. And it was fun.

[gee_ess]

Originally Posted by christiangirl

Hmmm....my turn to psychologize her. Elina's an adamant vegetarian, very strongly invested in human/animal rights, kind of swingy on sexuality...very "liberal," in a word. My guess would be her mom holds opposite values and really rejected Elina's lifestyle, especially the sexuality piece (parents tend to get uptight about that). That's why Elina hates her mom, but at the same time blasts people who don't hold the same values she does. She is fighting for the right to have her own identity and do things her way which makes her a control freak; scared that people will reject her so she remains emotionally guarded; but yet she still rails against those who don't think like her because that's how she has been treated and is therefore all she knows.

Yes, I pulled all of that out of my butt. And it was fun.

Or could be...she is the child of a poster on a thread on the Chit Chat forum who has cut off all relationship with said child because this child has changed political parties and "turned her back on every value she was ever taught.

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by gee_ess

Or could be...she is the child of a poster on a thread on the Chit Chat forum who has cut off all relationship with said child because this child has changed political parties and "turned her back on every value she was ever taught.

Hahaha, or she could be the child of a poster in the Recruitment forum who disowned said child because she pledged the "bottom tier" sorority and they can't show their faces in their small town anymore.

Or she could be the secret love child of Michelle Duggar and a random man from church and Michelle refuses to claim her in that parade line-up she's got going...