Anyone ever notice that Adrienne isn’t included in the intro to ANTM but Yoanna, Eva, Naima, Nicole, Danielle, and Caridee are? Just an observation. Guess those bad blood stories between Tyra and Adrienne really do run as deep as the rumors intimate. At any rate, this week began with Natasha practically inhaling the phone as she purred to her husband, with the girls all looking on and giggling uncomfortably. Renee said she misses her husband but, “I definitely don’t nuzzle the phone.”

By Elizabeth Weiss McGolerick
Reality Reel Media
05.11.07

This week’s challenge had the girls meeting up with an Aboriginal elder in the bush along with a group of women who perform a storytelling dance. The girls were required to create an original story that best defined their life using body art, movement, and words – and they had only 15 minutes to put together an outfit and tale. No pressure or anything, especially in what looked to be absolutely freezing cold weather in which they would be wearing very little clothing. But Renee was thinking positive. “Models are storytellers,” she said. “Whether it’s your own personal story or a story a designer is trying to get across, we tell stories … through pictures and runway.”

And she was up first, describing how she was abused as a child but grew tall alongside her mother and sisters. Jaslene explained that she was misled into pain, agony, and suffering, and her only way out was through the true love of her dream: modeling, I assume. Her performance was ok, but she didn’t move much or explain the markings she’d painted on her body like Renee did.

Dionne was being all whiney and said, “I don’t want to do any damn dance. I do not want to dance, period.” Just get up there and do it, you crybaby. She complains about everything! Anyway, she told the story of her mother being shot and about her sister and her own baby. Natasha entered with ferns, talking so quietly “so everyone would pay attention,” she explained. Unfortunately, it backfired. No one could hear what she was saying. “She’s a sweet girl, but she’s a few fries short of a Happy Meal,” Renee said. But Natasha thought she did a very good job because she used branches and performed barefoot like the Aboriginals. In fact, for most of the episode Natasha explained how the girls are intimidated by her look and that, throughout the whole competition, they’ve talked about her but she’s ignored them and not allowed them to get in her head.

Renee won the challenge which was judged by Seventeen magazine’s editorial director. The director felt the mag’s readers would care about Renee and want to learn about her. Renee chose Jaslene to share her prize: pearl jewelry of all shapes and sizes. Dionne was depressed watching the two as they were adorned with necklaces, rings, and bracelets and admitted that she wished she’d given the challenge a little more effort.

That night, Renee, Jaslene, and Dionne decided to go out. Natasha was sick and stayed home which suited the trio just fine. Renee said they all need to do well at this week’s photo shoot. “We need to send someone home and you all know who it’s gotta be,” she warned. Then they spent some time gossiping about Natasha, how she doesn’t have a wedding ring, no one’s ever seen pictures of her husband or daughter, they don’t even know her husband’s name. Apparently, her story has changed a million times. “If you’re gonna lie, at least be good at it,” Renee said.