'Top Model' Interview with Dominique: 'It's a TV Show, Not a Modeling Competition'

This isn't the first time that Tyra and her judging panel have sent home an America's Next Top Model contestant because they felt she had "walked away" from the competition during the competition. Besides critiques about "sitting on" one's natural talents or looking "too commercial," it might be the most common reason Tyra uses to send a model packing. After all, the second rule of Top Model (after the height requirement) is that you have to want it. Most eliminated Top Model contestants will tell you that they did want it, but, for whatever reason, that passion "didn't shine through" or the judges "didn't get a chance" to know them. And most of them are probably telling the truth as they see it. But Dominique, the outgoing freckled beauty from Houston who was sent home this week after a couture group photo shoot gone wrong, is one of the few I've spoken to who openly admits that she quit before Tyra handed her the eviction notice. Her reason for giving up? She says it began to dawn on her that, for all their talk of turning modeling dreams into reality, the only "reality" on Top Model is that it's a reality TV show. Check out what Dominique had to say about her exit, what she thinks of this season's diva, Alexandria, and more:

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