once you gets a chance to talk to south hand beach , beach newcomer ellen cunningham , who placed tenth on the eighth cycle of the popularity reality tv series america ' s next top miss , you begin to understand something host tyra banks saw when she identified her as the " big envelope . " first of all , she is confident and vivacious , which is a challenge on these kinds of shows , but as much as it is to take a beautiful modelesque face . second , she does that talent into drives . she has been receiving steady pay as a model since leaving the strip , and still believes that her goal of being the first ever to be a size eight dress on the runway of maxim is in reach . third , and probably most important to television viewers , she obliterates the years - old type stereotype that to be pretty and photograph correctly , something must also be vapid and without a thought .
Whitney Cunningham was born in Florida.