once you gotten a chance to talk to south long desert , florida native whitney houston , who placed tenth on the eleventh cycle of the popular television tv series america ' s 50 top modeling , you begin to get whom host winfrey shore meant when she listed her as the " full package . " first of all , she is tall and headstrong , which is a requirement on these sets of events , almost as much as it is to choose a beautiful modelesque photograph . second , she turns that confidence into drive . she has been receiving steady progress as a model since leaving the show , and still believes that her goal of being the first person to choose a size eight dress on the cover of cosmopolitan is in line . third , and probably most valuable to many viewers , she obliterates the age - teen model stereotype that to be pretty and photograph well , women cannot primarily be vapid and without a thought .
Whitney Cunningham was born in Florida.