It’s amazing how reality shows can launch one’s career several ways possible.  Getting your name into national television airwaves can help you gain more exposure and land more projects.  Same goes for America’s Next Top Model season 3 contender Yaya DeCosta, who was reportedly pursuing an acting gig earlier this year.  In April, Soaps.com reported that Yaya took the role of Angie Hubbard’s adopted daughter, Cassandra, in the daytime soap opera All My Children.  Before her soap opera acting gig, thought, Yaya has worked on television shows such as Eve, Racing for Time and Take the Lead. She also worked on the big screen project, The Shanghai Hotel, which will be released later this year.

Now, another America’s Next Top Model contender has stepped into the scripted world with another daytime soap opera.

Eva Marcille, who was previously known as Eva Pigford, has been on scripted shows after her stint on America’s Next Top Model.  In fact, she has appeared in shows such as Smallville, Everybody Hates Chris and The Game, where she played herself.  More recently, RealityTV.About.com reports that Eva Marcille will be joining the cast of The Young and the Restless, where she is set to play a young mother.

For these models, the reality competition has paved a way for them to venture into several careers but as for the latest winner of America’s Next Top Model, she is determined to make it big and make a difference as well.  Whitney Thompson, the plus sized model who emerged victorious in the recently-concluded tenth season of the show, is determined to get the word out on being big and beautiful.

Whitney said in a recent interview with the L.A. Times, "I really want my name and my face out there and I want people who don't watch the show as well to to see me and go, 'Hey, that girl is twice the size of the girl on the cover next to her, and she's still a model and that is beautiful.'" Whitney says.  "No one from the generation behind me has anyone to look up to.  Truly all of their role models are in rehab or have eating disorders, and I feel like it might be a lost generation because of that.  I'm not saying no to anything.  I really want to work and work and work and just get everything I want to out there."

Whatever Whitney and the rest of the gang have in mind for the future of their careers, fans will definitely be looking forward to it, and we will be reporting on it so don’t forget to check back.


-Valerie Anne del Castillo, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: Soaps.com, L.A. Times, RealityTV.About.com
(Photo courtesy of The CW)