America's Next Top Model: Fear of Heights
Trey Ratcliff
That's basically what happened on America's Next Top Model last week.
The photo shoot was held on the top of a building. A platform was built up for the models to stand on while they set out to "become" living gargoyles. The makeup was amazing, and I thought the idea was wonderfully creative.
The problem was that Ambreal, a 19-year-old student from Texas, has a debilitating fear of heights.
When the models were led to the roof to take a first look at the site of the shoot, poor Ambreal had to practically be dragged up the stairs. She was shaking and crying.
To her credit, when it came time to shoot, she trooped back up to the roof and climbed onto the platform. But, it was obvious that her fear was making her turn to cardboard in front of the camera. Being afraid of heights myself, I was impressed that she was able to do as well as she did. She's a brave girl!
However, when the time came to face the judges at the end, Ambreal was told that if she wanted to make it in the modeling world she was going to have to get over these types of fears. Maybe that's true. Maybe to be a model you have to learn to work through your fears, but it's not that easy. (About as easy as quitting smoking cold turkey!)
Perhaps Ambreal's fear of heights can be overcome, but she'll probably need a little help with that.
Recently, Patricia Farrell, PhD, WebMD's resident psychologist, wrote a series of posts on her blog about phobias. She included Acrophobia, which is the hoity-toity Latin term for "fear of heights".
Check it out, along with her other phobia posts on her Anxiety and Stress Management blog.
Do you have any phobias? Would you be able to just "get over" them? Tell us about it!
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3 Comments:
"When the models were lead to the roof"?
You need past tense here, not present tense.
Thanks, anonymous, that's been fixed.
why was that necessary to point out, we all make spelling mistakes shmuck
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