| Reality TV is a small, edited, subjective impression of the many hours of work and filming that are actually done. Small problems become huge dramatic scenes, bad habits become personality traits, and people become caricatures based on whatever incidents the producers choose to present. I'm usually an emotional person, so I very quickly got portrayed as 'the crying girl. |
|  | | Regardless of whether I thought it was fair, whether I thought it was true, whether I actually cry as often in a given day as the show made it seem, that trait became how people saw me. I couldn't be angry because I really did cry all those times. It was the way the producers made people understand my crying that made me feel misrepresented; but that's life. |
| |  | | | We get only small windows of opportunity to show others what we're worth and to prove we can make the cut. Luckily for me, 'the crying girl' went on to be 'the Miss Seventeen girl,' and life would never be the same again. |
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