Isis King and Kayla Ferrell Return For America's Next Top Model All Stars

For Cycle 17 of America's Next Top Model Tyra Banks has pulled together an interesting mix of past contestants to make an all-star cast. Considering the bitchiness of the girls from previous seasons, this cycle is looking to be the most entertaining yet.

A lesbian from Cycle 15 (Kayla Ferrell), the show's first and only transgender contestant from Cycle 11 (Isis King), a homophobic Christian from Cycle 1 (Shannon Stewart), a now-sober drinker from Cycle 5 (Lisa D'Amato) and a star of a Trojan Condom ad from Cycle 11 (Sheena Sakai) are just a few of the personalities who fans love to hate (and hate to love) that will truly make this an All-Star Cycle. 

The other wanna-be models who have already jumped through the crazy hoops that only Tyra Banks could dream up (some have even tried twice) before, and have returned for another shot in the back-stabbing, hyper-critical world of fashion modeling are:

Shannon Steward, Cycle 1

Camille McDonald, Cycle 2

Brittany Bower, Cycle 4

Bre Scullark, Cycle 5

Lisa D'Amato, Cycle 5

Bianca Golden, Cycle 9

Dominique Reighard, Cycle 10

Isis King, Cycle 11

Sheena Sakai, Cycle 11

Allison Harvard, Cycle 12

Laura Kirkpatrick, Cycle 13

Angelea Preston, Cycle 14

Kayla Ferrell, Cycle 15

Alexandria Everett, Cycle 16

Since we already know about the contestants (and the crazy antics they tend to pull) going into Cycle 17, we definitely have our fingers crossed for two brave contestants giving another try to becoming America's Next Top Model. 

Isis King, ANTM's first openly transgendered model, was liked by Tyra so much that she paid for King's gender reassignment surgery in 2009. During her first appearance on the show, King was praised for her courage but also ridiculed by the other models, and went home early during Cycle 11.

Kayla Ferrell, an openly lesbian contestant, got a red-hot makeover during Cycle 15, and became a favorite of fans and judges alike.

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