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Spoiled ANTM C.12 Celia บทสัมภาษณ์และรูป (Pre & Post Show)
พอดีไปเจอบทสัมภาษณ์นึงเกี่ยวกับ Celia เลยนำเอามาให้อ่านกัน
และได้พบว่า Celia นี้ นำเทรนด์แต่เด็กจริงๆ
Cynthiana loves 'Top Model' contestant Celia
By Katya Cengel
kcengel@courier-journal.com
CYNTHIANA, KY. — Wednesday is "Celia night" in Cynthiana.
At 8 p.m., residents of the Harrison County town tune their televisions to The CW to watch one of their own — Celia Ammerman — on the reality show "America's Next Top Model." The next day, they call Smith Insurors Inc. and report that Celia should have come in first in a certain competition, or how another contestant who was mean to her should be kicked off, said Tallu Smith, president of Smith Insurors, and Celia's aunt.
Last Wednesday, Melanie Fenton, Celia's high school color guard coach, was trying to enjoy dinner out when she was interrupted by locals worried she would miss the show. She informed them her husband, Ryan, ordinarily a fan of "Ultimate Fighting Championship" but now an "America's Next Top Model" convert, was taping it.
"It's nice to have something good, some good publicity for our town," said Fenton. "We're a little hole in the woods; kind of seems like no one really knows that we really exist here."
Located 90 miles east of Louisville, Cynthiana is the kind of place where teenagers hang out in parking lots and almost every business has a television tuned to college basketball in March. The biggest employer, said provisional Mayor Jack Keith, is a Post-it Notes factory. With a population of around 6,000, if everyone doesn't know everyone, they have at least heard of everyone or his or her family, said Celia's older brother, Joseph Ammerman.
Keith likes to say he has known Celia since she was attending their Methodist church wearing "four-cornered pants" or diapers. Celia was so devout, her mother, Meg, boasts, that she had 15 years' perfect attendance at Sunday school.
Now that she is a contestant on "America's Next Top Model," battling it out with other women to become "the country's next big fashion icon," Celia's name brings a different kind of recognition. Not quite the level of another native, Joe B. Hall, basketball coach at the University of Kentucky in the '70s and '80s, but still, the 26-year-old statuesque woman with blond hair is being talked about around town.
Joseph can't go to the bank without being asked about his little sister's progress on the show. An X-ray technician at the local hospital even told Tallu Smith the entire hospital is behind Celia.
In an e-mail, Celia expressed delight that people in her hometown were following the show so closely.
"Everyone from my Methodist Church to elementary through high school have reached out to congratulate," she wrote. "They're all so excited, which generates even more excitement while I'm watching the show, knowing they're behind me."
Joseph Ammerman, 28, is the fourth generation of the family to work at Smith Insurors. He works within walking distance of his home, and also the home he and his two sisters grew up in on Pleasant Street. His older sister lives in California. Celia moved to New York a few years ago, which didn't surprise Joseph.
"She just wasn't conducive to people around here," he said, adding that he considered himself "people around here."
Leaning back in his chair, his arms behind his head, Joseph tried to explain. "She wasn't snobby, she wasn't unpopular, she wasn't any of those things...she was just thinking about something else. I don't know how else to describe it."
By high school she was using her allowance to order designer clothes online, which she would work into her wardrobe — not always successfully, said Joseph with a laugh. As a hurdler on the track team, he said, "she wore sunglasses every time she ran — but not like sports sunglasses, like Ray-Ban Aviators."
Even as a girl of 6 or 7, she had her own look, said her mother, a look that made you want to explain to her teachers that she dressed herself.
"So you want to act like you're proud, but want to say, 'I didn't do this,'" said her mother.
Back then it was a skirt, pants, shirt and T-shirt — at once. By high school, it was a pair of pants with a tiger face covering one leg and a sleeveless top. That was the outfit Celia wore as a member of the homecoming court her senior year, said Jenny Nichols, homecoming coordinator at Harrison County High School.
"She had a fashion sense that was very forward for small-town Cynthiana," said Nichols.
The other girls in the court dressed in skirt suits, the kind of outfits they might have worn to church.
"She didn't go with the crowd," said Lee Kendall, the school's athletic director.
Kendall, like many of those who know Celia, watches the show regularly. When asked if fashion and modeling interest him, Kendall, a large man with porcupine spiky silver hair, glasses and a bland button-down, replied: "Look at me, honey."
The boys in Amanda Caudill's sixth-grade class probably aren't too interested in fashion either. But Caudill, Meg's sister and Celia's aunt, has had to ask the boys to come up with something other than "hot" when referring to her niece, said Meg.
At the high school they want to know if Celia will be coming for prom, said Nichols, who created a Facebook group for Celia fans that has around 800 members, many of them from Cynthiana.
"She's become this icon, I think, among our student body," said Nichols, "and even among kids," she lowered her voice to a whisper, "even the delinquents are beginning to step up and take notice."
Source : http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090324/FEATURES/903240312/1010
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