Former America’s Next Top Model contestant Fatima Siad is debatably the most successful model of the show’s history. Since being rejected from ANTM in 2008, the Somalia-born beauty has been building quite an impressive modeling career — blazing the catwalks of Betsy Johnson, Gemma Kahng, Thierry Colson, Staerk and most recently, Dries Van Noten
and Hermès — just to name a few. Just this spring, Siad landed a lucrative campaign with
Hervé Léger.
During an interview with New York Magazine, Siad revealed her “love/hate relationship” with the show. “It was really intense and dramatic,” the Bryn Mawr and NYU educated model said, “there was unnecessary stress; they made fashion seem like it was the hardest thing in the world.”
For aspiring models, she warns, “stay away from any television shows. It’s a waste of your time; it’s just entertainment. It’s not the fashion that we now know.”
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