I was 12 when ANTM Cycle 8 came out and (at the time) I was particularly fond of Renee, the third place contestant. I was Googling pictures of her one day when I found a blog post which described her as a "low rent Jessica Stam" and featured a side by side comparison, using a runway close-up of Stam from Cavalli S/S 07. I remember being totally mystified by those eyes and quickly became obsessed, watching all of her Model Talks videos and runway compilations on YouTube and finding her thread here on TFS. At the same time, the May 2007 issue of Vogue with the "World's Next Top Models" was coming out, where my love of Stam then introduced me to Hilary Rhoda and Sasha P, my other two early model obsessions.