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"Seen as the &amp;quot;quirky&amp;quot; girl on America&amp;#039;s Next Top Model&amp;#039;s College Edition, Jessie Rabideau was an immediate stand-out from her fellow contestants. However, she struggled to find the natural side of modeling and had a tough time with photoshoots. This difficulty combined with her inability to connect with the fans voting online landed her in the bottom two, and eventually the 25-year-old architecture student became the first girl to be eliminated from the Top 13.  We caught up with Jessie following her elimination to hear about her experience - as well as her plan to get back in the game via this season&amp;#039;s new twist...   You were passed off as the &amp;quot;quirky&amp;quot; one this season. Do you see yourself that way? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know. Ever since the auditions and casting, I noticed - I don&amp;#039;t know - that I stood out from the other girls. I don&amp;#039;t know if it&amp;#039;s the haircut, what I wear, my glasses... but I think all the girls picked up on that and dubbed me the quirky/different one. I just like being myself, it&amp;#039;s the way I&amp;#039;ve always been. If that&amp;#039;s quirky or different, then okay. I think all the girls had their own style and things that set themselves apart from the rest of us. I think the show portrayed me as - I mean, it&amp;#039;s hard to get all aspects in your character in a few glimpses on television, but I think for the most part it was a good reflection.&amp;quot; This week&amp;#039;s challenge seemed pretty difficult this early on. You weren&amp;#039;t able to use your body, so how did that affect how you approached the shoot? &amp;quot;I guess you have to worry about the body anyway, in a sense. I guess I saw it as a challenge. I was expecting to be able to, like, have a body to portray. I went in there trying to turn my head a lot and show different looks, but the direction I kept getting was, &amp;#039;Oh, we want your face to be straight on&amp;#039; so I was trying to focus the intensity on my eyes. Maybe I was focusing too much on that part. I guess I didn&amp;#039;t really get what they were looking for.&amp;quot;  Do you think you could have done anything differently? &amp;quot;I mean, it was my first photoshoot, so you know. I tried my best. But looking back on it, I&amp;#039;d do so much more now that I&amp;#039;ve learned so much more about how to take pictures.&amp;quot;  Did you do anything to prepare for being on the show? &amp;quot;Yeah! After I auditioned and got to the next stage, I thought, &amp;#039;Oh, crap. I needed to work on things&amp;#039;. So I took some photos on my computer, you know, like, mainly of my face. Then I would practise my walk and record it on my iPhone, which is kinda silly but I did that in my apartment complex in the hallway. When you watch the show, you see the girls doing photoshoots and it looks easy. It looks easier than it is, but in the situation, I don&amp;#039;t know if it&amp;#039;s nerves or lack of confidence or confusing direction... I think some people are just natural models, too, and other people you really have to teach yourself and practise, practise, practise.&amp;quot;   There are a lot of unique personalities in the house this year. Victoria really stood out because of her close relationship with her mom. Was she the way she is edited to be on TV? &amp;quot;The stuff with Victoria didn&amp;#039;t surprise me at all because that&amp;#039;s how she is when you&amp;#039;re interacting with her. I think she&amp;#039;s done a good job being in that space with all of us. I don&amp;#039;t know if she made friends with any of us. I had a lot of interesting conversations with her, but I think it was hard for me, at least, to relate to her. She seemed so scripted and I felt like I didn&amp;#039;t really know who she was, like she was trying too hard. I didn&amp;#039;t quite get her. Being away from your mom when you&amp;#039;re so close is so hard, though. I imagine coming on with all us girls would be a struggle. It seemed like she was doing okay and adjusting to it, though.&amp;quot;  What about Kristin? She is a self-described former &amp;quot;mean girl&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;With Kristin... she said some things in her interview that kind of made me... well, my reaction was like, &amp;#039;Oh my gosh, is she serious?&amp;#039; She&amp;#039;s so concerned with how she looks. I guess talking to her you can tell she&amp;#039;s kind of like that. It makes sense that she would be like that.&amp;quot; When you did the impromptu runway walk at the club, your feedback was that you failed to connect. How do you think you did? &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t really get any of the critiques. It was like a party setting with all these people around us, so I think I did okay with it. I wanted to be a little bit sexy and confident and to do something interesting with the hoop in the centre. You&amp;#039;re up there and it happens so fast and before you know it, you&amp;#039;re off the stage and thinking, &amp;#039;I hope that&amp;#039;s okay&amp;#039;. But I was making eye contact with the audience, so I don&amp;#039;t know how I didn&amp;#039;t connect with them. When I saw other people&amp;#039;s performances, I thought I had done a better job.&amp;quot;  You have a chance to come back into the competition later - what&amp;#039;s the strategy to make that happen? &amp;quot;I think all the feedback on the first photoshoot helped. I really have to work on my angles and expressions and just bring a variety of different looks to the photoshoots and take direction better from the photographers. Once you start doing it more and more, you become more confident and it becomes more natural, I guess.&amp;quot; What do you think of the changes that have been made to the show, in terms of the new judging panel as well as the fan voting aspect? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s been on the air for so long that I think the change or renovation, I guess, is a good idea. I think the public have an opinion and I think it&amp;#039;s interesting to kind of learn what they have to say because your image means a lot nowadays. I would like to know if I&amp;#039;m coming off a certain way and if people respond well to my picture or whatever. As far as the new judges go, I guess after being on the air for a while, Tyra wanted something new. I was really sad [Nigel Barker] wasn&amp;#039;t there - I was really looking forward to meeting him and Miss Jay. But I think the new group of people have something to offer and it was great working with everybody. They&amp;#039;re a really fun group of people.&amp;quot;  America&amp;#039;s Next Top Model airs Fridays at 8/7c on The CW "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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