It's that time of the year when a cycle of America's Next Top Model winds down and we all go back to figuring out what to do with our lives. As for the young women vying for the coveted top spot, well ... one of them wins. Some of the others go on to have flourishing modeling careers despite the loss, and some find another calling. Meanwhile, host/executive producer Tyra Banks maintains her youth for another year by feasting on the contestants' tears and broken dreams like a smizing Elizabeth Bathory . Cycle 15 brought us not only a more serious tone with its "high fashion" — mindedness, but also Kayla Ferrel , a 19-year-old lesbian ex-Hooters waitress from Rockford, Illinois. During the course of the show, she revealed what can only be described in understated terms as a rough upbringing — poverty, abuse, and being bullied about her sexuality to the point where she had to switch schools — but she treated none of it as a setback, instead resolving to work hard a...