Episode 11

For the past 10 weeks, I've been giving you the scoop and you've been posting your comments. So, I thought to myself…how about this week we hear from the models themselves. After all, they are the ones living the show!

Fasten your seatbelts boys and girls… I'm giving them a call to find out what they're loving and loathing about this rollercoaster ride called Get Gorgeous 4.

1. What has been the least fun aspect of doing this show?
Rachel: Well actually, everything is fun in its own way. Even though it is boring, it is really fun. I've never done something like this so for me it's really different. The least fun thing would be the make up because as it is I don't like putting on make-up.
Rebecca: The food ya. It's not my type of food like chicken and all. It's not that nice.
Nidhi: The criticism of the judges. In Gokarna, it was knowing that every night there were going to be eliminations and the work you did was going to be judged and that it was all going on TV. Other than that; dealing with my roommate in Gokarna, Kirtana.
Arika: The Jungle in the Bungle scene cause I got humiliated. Or let me see, the least fun could be… the girls teaming up on me or rather me being out of the fantastic four thing. Or actually it was a good thing… I don't know. Valsa, I'm confused!
Arlette: The least fun aspect of the show has been giving up rice, giving up coffee, giving up chocolate, giving up sleep, giving up family.

Get Gorgeous Arika

2. And the most fun?
Rachel: Doing the tribal shoot because it culminated into the final five. It was really exciting.
Rebecca: Everything! I think ramp…no, the photo shoots. Actually, the most fun I've had on the show was when I was in Delhi to meet Gaurav Gupta for my portfolio shoot.
Nidhi: The spa in Gokarna, which was really beautiful. The last day of the eliminations, where I got told that I'd made it to the final five. The night just before we were going to leave for Bombay and after that the extra day we had off to do whatever we wanted in Gokarna. That was the fun-est part of the show!
Arika: Being pampered. You're like the main person in the whole shoot. People get to wait on you and everything. So it's like, pretty cool.
Arlette: Finding friends in everybody. Having the best in the industry to work with and having an AC room where you can come and crash after a hard day’s work! And being able to have a hot shower… I love baths!

Get Gorgeous Rebecca

3. What do you have to say to people who think models are dumb?
Rachel: People think that way for a particular reason. Maybe because in the past they have encountered a few models who are a little daft. Personally, I haven't met too many daft models. Now-a-day's models are girls who are smart and who want to make quick money.
Rebecca: I just feel like slapping them and telling them to shut up and try to be a model, na. I think models are very snobbish and bitchy. They keep people at a distance and so people might think they're dumb. Okay, I don't know. Just write a smart answer for me, ya! Hahaha… Don't ask me interview questions. You know ya, you've stayed with me for so long!
Nidhi: I think people are entitled to their own opinion, obviously. But it's quite nasty because a lot of people are very judgmental and stereotype people in this profession, which is not nice. I think it should be a universal policy that you shouldn't judge anybody before giving them a chance.
Arika: It's just stupid because it's not true. I mean yes, there are some models who are dumb but they're just like normal people. Some people are smart and some people are dumb. It just happens to be that most models are dumb but not all models are like whatever…
Arlette: In the first place, they think that. They don't know for a fact that the models are dumb or not. What I would like to tell them is like, maybe if they could step into our shoes for just one day, I'm sure that they could not do half as much as we do.

Get Gorgeous Arlette

4. What do you have to say to people who think the judges are/have been excessively mean?
Rachel: At the end of the day, I also feel the judges were nasty. But I think they are asked to be nasty because when you spend time with them you realize that they are otherwise. Knowing that it is a reality show and things like that, they had to create some amount of drama.
Rebecca: I don't think the judges are excessively mean. I think they were just mean. I don't know if they like doing it but that's just what happens in the show and we've just got to accept them. Like Nikhil, you just have to accept him… even though on the whole he was the meanest.
Nidhi: I would say, you're right!
Arika: It was kinda okay because they are just doing their job. It is their job to be nasty and to humiliate people. It isn't that bad.
Arlette: Well, they're not nasty to me but the nastiest comment or the most frank comment they must have given me is that I'm a little chubby. But they are judges, they've been in the industry for a longer period and like I said before it's not a very easy industry to be in. It's their job at the end of the day.

5. One thing you will miss about the apartment in Mumbai.
Rachel: Just the fun of living with girls, you know. I didn't really think that I could ever. But at the end of the day, to some extent they all rub off on you in some sort of way. Like Nidhi and her cleanliness and her very disciplined ways, like Becky and her insanity, Arlette and her cleaning up also and Arika… you can learn how to be a child from Arika.
Rebecca: The girls and the fun we had.
Nidhi: The clothes we got from Benetton and Rachel's UFO's made out of swimming tubes!
Arika: The decorations. You know because normal people don't get to decorate their house like that and all. And the independence we have living on our own is pretty cool.
Arlette: The companionship that we all share. I will miss all the fun we have… miss the girls basically.

Get Gorgeous Nidhi

6. Five girls got eliminated in Gokarna. If you could bring one of them back to be in the final five, who would it be?
Rachel: Nina. Or even Mizpah. But if it comes to someone who really deserved it, I would say Nina.
Rebecca: Mizpah.
Nidhi: Nina.
Arika: Nina.
Arlette: Mizpah! Hottie!

7. There can be only five finalists. So, who would you replace?
Rachel: Arlette.
Rebecca: Arika.
Nidhi: Arika.
Arika: Ummm…I guess it would be Arlette. Or myself. I don't know… I would like to win… okay fine, my answer is Arlette.
Arlette: Arika. Is that even a question you need to ask me?

Get Gorgeous Rachel

8. One thing about you that has changed since you started doing the show.
Rachel: I've started dressing more properly… sometimes. Not all the time, but sometimes I really get the zeal to get up and get ready, nicely dress up, put 0n some make up and things like that.
Rebecca: Two things… I lost a lot of weight and I now think girls are bigger bitches than I thought they were!
Nidhi: I always thought that I was very fair and non-judgmental but I realized how untrue that was when I got onto this show.
Arika: I get more confident after every photo shoot. After every new thing, that I have to do, I get more confident. And I learnt a lot of "your mama" jokes from you!
Arlette: My confidence levels.

Comments

  1. good to hear from them!!!!!

    Comment by ss19rulz — August 17, 2007 @ 10:39 pm

  2. cute.!!!

    Comment by neha — August 23, 2007 @ 1:01 am

  3. gr8 show!

    Comment by Greg — August 29, 2007 @ 6:41 pm

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