A farmer’s daughter from Madison County makes her TV debut next week on “America’s Next Top Model,” the hit reality show with Tyra Banks a famous fashion model.
It’s the stuff that dreams are made of for Kelly “Isabella” Falk, a 2007 graduate of Madison County High School.
“It’s hard to believe that I am actually standing here,” she said on her interview video, now playing on YouTube. “I am taking it all in, one day at a time.”
Though Falk, 19, is unable to talk about her experience on “Top Model” until after the show airs, her father, Askel Falk, said Wednesday that the new season has been taped and that his daughter — a varsity volleyball star — is back home in Madison County.
“She really enjoyed it, and it opened her eyes a lot with how things really work on television,” he said.
Mr. Falk, a beef farmer in Aroda — a scenic, rural region in southern Madison — said his daughter traveled to New York and Las Vegas during her time on the show.
“Ever since she was real small, she’s been dying to get into modeling,” he said.
Mr. Falk said Kelly auditioned for the show last year in the Big Apple.
“I was really excited for her getting this opportunity,” he said. “In a small town like Madison, these things don’t usually happen.”
In her interview tape, Kelly said the creative aspect of fashion modeling attracted her, as well as being able to work with other creative professionals in the fashion field.
She hoped to be able to learn how to “strike a fierce pose” and how “to smile with my eyes.” Tall and slender, Kelly said her favorite food is fat-free cottage cheese with fresh raspberries.
“America’s Next Top Model,” entering its 12th season, follows a group of 13 young women who live together and vie for a modeling contract.
The new season of “America’s Next Top Model” kicks off March 4 at 8 p.m. on The CW Television Network.
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By Allison Brophy Champion
Published: February 26, 2009
Madison teen on new ‘Top Model’
