8 May 2009

Whew, the first episode of The Fashion Show aired last night on Bravo! I was so nervous leading up to  it. I didn’t know how I was going to be portrayed and, to be honest, I was so sleep-deprived that I really forgot much of what I did or said during the filming. Last night was the first time that I saw the episode after it was all edited down, so you can imagine how anxious I was to be seeing it for the first time with TV viewers across America!

What amazed me is how smart all those producers are.  I mean, take a step back and think about the concept of reality television…or TV in general.  These shows are made to look real, but it is still a false reality.  To make things more confusing, that false reality really is happening so…yes, it is real.  I remember at one point when I was alone in front of the cameras and it suddenly hit me how surreal and bizarre the whole thing felt.  I would normally explain it as, “it was so surreal, it was like a scene out of a movie.”  Now, I am speechless because it was exactly that: a scene out of a movie.  What else can I say?  

The casting process was also incredible.  Out of the thousands that the producers had screened across the country, how did they decide to go with the 15 of us?  Surely, there is some deep science behind putting together a group of individuals that have absolutely nothing in common.  We’re like stripes next to polka-dot, stripes next to houndstooth. I’m surprised we were able to survive all that time together in one room! 

You can read my response during the original filming here on Bravo’s website.  These blogs were written after each elimination while we were filming this winter.