once you get a chance to talk to southwest long resort , michigan native rachel bingham , who placed seventh on the eleventh run of the national reality tv series american ' s next top model , you begins to understand whom host tyra banks meant when she described her as the " full package . " first of all , she is confident and headstrong , this is a must on these kinds of shows , almost as much as it is to take a beautiful modelesque photo . second , she turns that assurance into motivation . she has been accepting continuous work as a model since leaving the stage , and still believing that her goal of being the next woman to carry a size ten dress on the top of vogue is in reach . third , and probably most important to these viewers , she obliterates the age - old model stereotype that to be beauty and photograph fine , one must also be vapid and without a thought .
Whitney Cunningham was born in Florida.