Hey tyra my name is Jessica and I’m 18 years old and on 5’2 and I love to take pictures of myself I feel like I can be a model many people tell me, I love watch you shows how you talk about young girls doing what they do such a young age n how u think they can change they life is wonderful. .! Tyra can you please try your best to make me you next America top model. Luv Jess

Hi, I want to be a model more that anything.I’m only 15,but I don’t want that to stand in my way. I love fashion. How do I get started??? Is there any help????

I absolutely love you, Tyra. Even though I have never met you, you have touched my heart. I watch your show was much as I can (My stepdads sick with cancer and he just had a very major (supposed to be 8 hour but turned into a 14 hour) operation. He’s been spending all of this time on the couch. I record it on my DVR so I try to watch it as frequently as I can. I love him as he’s been in my life loner than my real father has (since I was 6 and I am now 21), so I don’t like to bother him. Every now and then he’ll call me and tell me to get my a$$ on the couch so that he can get up and do something and isnt’ tempted to go lay down. that’s when I watch it. I make days of it! :) Ok, now let’s get to the point. That was just a ramble. I am 21 so I can’t enter for your plus size top model cycle. That’s not the issue though. I have an idea for you that maybe you could take into consideration. I’m not exactly plus size, but in the modeling world I am. I wear an 8 pants and I like my shirts loose so I go for medium and larges.

To the point: I had serious back surgery when I was 17 years old. If you’re interested in seeing the pictures (X-Rays they’re so cool and I love to show them off ;) ) you can email me at Chera_Lynn88@graffiti.net and I will send them to you. I think, that you could hold a cycle for peole who have had major surgires that effect them for the rest of their lives. (For me it was get the surgery or die. My spine (AT 17 YEARS OLD) was progressed to that of a middle aged person who had had it since birth (Mine came around when I was 7. It was in my ex rays but they never told me. By the time I found out my growth plate was closted and the only option was the surgery.) It was severly pressing on my heart and lungs and they said that by the time i was in my thrities my heart would fail. They told me that if I had the surgery I would live a pain free life with some limits. They lied. I am now on several medications for my spine and they told me I’d have to be on pain medication for the rest of my life. That alone crused me. I have the best posture ever, but I’d trade it for anything.

There are a lot of people out there who are in the same situation as me. Not that they had the same problem, but they have had a life changing surgery.

I think that would be brilliant. To give people of all ages (or maybe just adults who are used to the situation they’re in and have learned to live with it) that have conditions where they believe that things like that could never do anything like that. People who possibly dream of that, the chance. It’s a stretch, but I think it would be an absolutely wonderful cycle. It would be wonderful for the people and also the people at home watching and dreaming. It would give them hope. If you decide to do this, I would love to be contacted. I would love to even try for it. I never really wanted to be a model, I want to act. That’s my passion. Musicals is what I wanted to do but since I cant bend and stretch like I used to that’s out of the question. Even if I don’t have a chance to be a model (I’m peirced, I will not take them out and I believe that they are beautiful in their own ways) I would still love to know if you’re going to use my idea. I don’t want credit, but I don’t really watch ANTM so I’d never know if it was going on.

Thank you Tyra, for your time, and for your kindness to the world.

—Chera Lynn