Last night, ABC kicked off one of its latest winter offering, True Beauty.  But the show isn't just another modeling competitive reality series for America's most beautiful.  What participants don't know is that they're being judged on how they act and make moral decisions.  Executive producers Ashton Kutcher and Tyra Banks set up a panel of judges consisting of fashion editor Nolé Marin, host Vanessa Minnillo and Cheryl Tiegs, who is identified as “the real first supermodel.”  Among the three, Tiegs appears to have an idea of what “inner beauty” is all about.

“I don't know how the business saw it, but I personally thought it made a difference what kind of person you were,” said Cheryl Tiegs, who never quite forgot her roots.  “In fact, I'm German and from Minnesota, and I'd come early and stay late if they wanted me to because I was so grateful for the money I was making and the great job. I think over the years — not to brag — but I think I did get the reputation of being nice and easy to work with, so then I think people want to work with you.”

Cheryl Tiegs has come a long way from her modeling days since the age of 16.  Aside from being a public speaker for health and fitness, she also sports her own line of skin care products, has authored The Way to Natural Beauty and is raising her 17-year-old son, Zachary.

“I think true beauty really does have to do with an inner light that does shine,” she said.  “People ask, ‘What is star quality?' I don't know the answer to that, nobody does, but my idea of it is someone who has something to offer.  When I finished my formal education [modeling agent] Nina Blanchard said, ‘the key to beauty is to keep learning, growing, educating yourself.'  That's kind of what I've done.”

“And I think that's what an attractive person is.  They shine.  When they walk in a room you're literally attracted to them because they have something to say, they've done something with their lives, and that's what I kept looking for in contestants, really looking into their eyes to see what was going on,” the True Beauty judge added.

Fans can join Cheryl Tiegs' search for True Beauty every Monday at 10pm ET/PT on ABC.


-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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