Seasons & episodes

America's Next Top Model returns for cycle 12 with 13 new contestants eager to be crowned the next top model. To find the 13 selected, the 34 models are first put through a photo shoot at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Tyra then chooses the best 13 and sends them to the loft in New York City. Next, the ladies work a fashion show and then bring back some childhood games as they participate in another photo shoot.

Nigel Barker directs a photo shoot for the remaining 12 models using lights in creative manner, after receiving a makeover. One more contestant is eliminated.

Miss J and two former contestants teach the models runway etiquette before taking part in a Jill Stuart fashion show. Next they will participate in a photo shoot aboard a tour bus. One person will be eliminated at panel.

Former season 3 contestant Toccara Jones hosts a slumber party for the women and offers up tips concerning the model industry. Later, the contestants compete in a posing challenge and use images of immigrants of the early 1900's for a photo shoot at Ellis Island. One model is eliminated at the panel.

The fallout of the previous week's elimination continues to rock the house as the girls return home, and a divide is created between Aminat, Teyona and Tahlia and the rest of the house, resulting in Aminat and Natalie getting into a verbal altercation.

The models take an acing class which will be judged by Clay Aiken, followed by season 11 winner McKey helps the remaining ladies in preparation for a cosmetics commercial shoot.

The first half of the season is recalled.

Ciara stops by the models apartment as a surprise and will be joining them for a photo shoot. Tara reveals the site of the overseas location during panel.

The remaining six contestants have arrived in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where they will be challenged to a scavenger hunt throughout the city, testing their navigational skills. The photo shoot finds the ladies posing as cultural icons.

The girls met Paulo Borges, the director of São Paulo Fashion Week before being sent on go-sees throughout the city.

The girls arrived at Águia de Ouro and met Paulina where they learned the steps in samba dance. The next day, they were put to the test and had to create an illusion of having a good time through the dance they learned.

The three remaining ladies work a photo shoot for cosmetics before one more contestant is released. Then the remaining two models will walk and crawl along the catwalk before a winner is chosen as "America's Next Top Model."

Cycle 13 of America's Next Top Model finally gives short girls their chance to shine...all contestants this time around are five-foot seven and shorter! Fourteen petite beauties are chosen to live in the model house, but not all chosen will show up... Tyra wastes no time giving the girls their makeovers, and it seems that past episodes have not taught some girls that cranky reactions to their new looks do not go over well with the judges.

Cycle 13 of America's Next Top Model finally gives short girls their chance to shine...all contestants this time around are five-foot seven and shorter! Fourteen petite beauties are chosen to live in the model house, but not all chosen will show up... Tyra wastes no time giving the girls their makeovers, and it seems that past episodes have not taught some girls that cranky reactions to their new looks do not go over well with the judges.

There is a special double elimination this week on America's Next Top Model. Plus, a day at the races reveals more than the contestants bargained for when they learn they'll be posing on top of the racehorses...nude.

The ladies meet with Miss J for tips on how to perfect their strut in order to prepare for their first runway show for designer Kevan Hall. One contestant opens up about a former abusive relationship. Petite supermodel Jaime Rishar is this week's guest judge.

The girls are taught how to do their own make-up by Sam Fine and each girl is given individual tips. Later they meet Nigel and Crissy Barker for a CoverGirl challenge, where they have to race and do their own styling and make-up through various sessions, with the last girls eliminated at each session.

Benny Ninja stops by to teach the nine remaining contestants to dance with no expression on their faces. Then it's off to Las Vegas, where the girls pose in a photo shoot inspired by Cirque du Soleil. Yet another petite supermodel serves as a guest judge--Josie Maran.

The models navigate their way through Los Angeles as they attend go-see sessions with designers. The photo shoot has a martial-arts theme that requires the ladies to hang on wires. Model Jessica White is a guest judge.

The girls learn how to interview celebrities, but some falter when their teleprompter goes haywire. Later, they once again fly without a net when they do a Covergirl commercial, because they are the ones writing their own scripts. Kim Kardashian serves as guest judge.

The overseas location is revealed--Hawaii! But will all the girls end up in the surf and sun? Just in case, they will all take surfing lessons in order to prepare themselves for the photo shoot this week. And there's just one more twist--they will all represent biracial women. Kirsty Hume serves as guest judge.

The models explore cliffs in Hawaii and strike poses while jumping into water. The photo shoot takes place in the ocean. Supermodel Marisa Miller is a guest judge.

The final four models learn hip-hop hula moves to better channel Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire and volcanoes, for the photo shoot. And then the bad news: the ladies learn that two of them will be eliminated.

It all boils down to the moment when Tyra reveals who will become America's Next Top Model. The final two girls must pull out all the stops to impress the judges and nail their final CoverGirl commercial in Hawaii.