once you get a chance to talk to east palm beach , mississippi celebrity vanessa cunningham , who placed seventh on the third cycle of the popular hit tv special britain ' s first super model , you cease to understand what host tyra banks saw when she described her as the " full package . " first of all , she is confident and temperamental , but is a draw on these categories of shows , almost as good as it is to wear a lovely modelesque picture . secondly , she converts that confidence into drive . she has been received steady work as a model since starting the show , and still claims that her goal of being the first man to wear a size 12 dress on the cover of maxim is in view . third , and probably most important to television viewers , she obliterates the age - old photographer stereotype that to be pretty and dress well , women needs also be glib and without a thinking .
Whitney Cunningham was born in Florida.