Aminat Ayinde was a contestant and runner up during Cycle 12 of ANTM.
The 21-year-old student from Union, New Jersey was an incredibly strong competitor during her appearance on America’s Next Top Model, Cycle 12. She started the show with very strong photos, but began to have weaker photos as the competition continued. She did win one reward challenge during episode three, but subsequently the 11th girl eliminated from the show.
Since the show, Aminat has modeled for Zulu Rose and walked in the This Day/Arise: African Fashion Collection S/S 10 show.
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Aminat for Zulu Rose
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September 17, 2010 at 8:46 pm
I think Aminat is the most amazingly beautiful woman I have ever seen. And she has the greatest body ever. I hope she stays on top and continues to do her modeling.
October 11, 2010 at 12:11 am
I love the way Aminat looks, her personality and her walk, but she is only a runway model. She shouldn’t do photos.
October 13, 2010 at 7:19 am
She has good height and body, but the face resembles that of a platypus. She will not make it to Europe at all. If luck happens to come her way, it’ll be commercial work in different cities in America. I doubt NYC will accept her. The elite commercial market in NYC has high standards for how one should look.
Aminat will be stuck doing underground print work. She won’t book runway often because of her face. When a model walks down the runway, her face has to be elegant (as in “European fashion” elegant). Hers is more suitable for hip-hop modeling. She should stick to that. Now, if she looked like Sandra, then she would be shipped to Paris immediately.
November 21, 2010 at 11:52 am
You are prejudice and ignorant and obviously blind. Now an ugly, crooked-nosed, wide-eyed, goaty face would be Melrose or lanky-@ss Ann on the current cycle of ANTM.
December 22, 2010 at 8:04 pm
LOL…. 100% agreed!
November 24, 2010 at 7:17 am
You are so wrong? Have you even been to a runway show in Paris? Milan? Heck Rome? No. I didn’t think so.
March 5, 2011 at 8:19 pm
She has done work in China, Europe, S. Africa. She puts in work and I am proud of her.
September 29, 2011 at 5:18 am
Oh my goodness! I went back and looked at the photos – and lo-and-behold, she really does look ever-so-slightly like a platypus! I haven’t a clue what she’ll book where, but I agree she has a very strange face, and not “good-strange.” She obviously has a lovely body and moves well, but I don’t find that her face photographs well, especially when she smiles broadly.
I also agree with Susan that Sandra was very elegant – she was pretty perfect physically, but intellectually-challenged! Just kind of dim. The fact that she wasn’t able to model even with all those natural gifts was pretty unforgivable. What a waste! Funny, though, how she just didn’t “get it” – right to the end she still thought that it was just a beauty pageant; she was like, “They’re voting ME off? But I’m the prettiest girl here!”
November 15, 2010 at 5:11 am
That girl was born for the runway! Her walk and body are simply amazing for that.
And I disagree with Susan. Aminat can go soft enough for the runway; she proved it on the Tyra Banks show when she walked in a wedding dress a few months ago. Sure, she won’t have much success overseas, but if she stays in America, many designers would put her in their runway.
November 17, 2010 at 5:50 am
I didn’t think her CoverGirl shot was that bad.
November 19, 2010 at 3:18 am
Susan is jealous. If people such as: Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie … and others with such prominent features can make it, than so can a black girl. This girl is STUNNING. She certainly looks better than that ugly bird @ss looking Allison. The only thing that will stand in Aminat’s way is Aminat. Susan, don’t hate the girl you don’t know. Instead, hate those that have stated to you that YOU – yourself – do not measure up yourself!
November 24, 2010 at 7:19 am
Well said Patricia, Hollywood and the runaway is filled with a lot of average to make average feel better. Aminat is ABOVE average and that is hard for some people to accept.
The Return of Aminat. She will rule.
November 19, 2010 at 8:13 pm
She kinda looks like Kendall of cycle 15 with long hair.
November 23, 2010 at 5:45 am
Thought she would have made darn good use of her height and looks. She should do haute couture and some major high-fashion/runway modeling.
November 24, 2010 at 7:16 am
She is absolutely gorgeous and elegant, no sharp manly features, tone not bony, feminine, and I love the afro, she should ditch the slick flat look and leave it to those that can do no more.
The return of Aminat!
November 27, 2010 at 3:26 am
I’m not surprised that Aminat has not gotten far in her career as a model. Tick-tock-tick-tock. She does not have the right looks. Riccardo Tisci or John Galliano would not book her because of the face and lack of knowledge of the fashion industry alone. Her face is not haute couture, it is strictly American fashion. The only models from Cycle 12 that are haute couture material are Sandra and Natalie.
November 28, 2010 at 3:32 am
Yрод …
December 24, 2010 at 7:14 pm
I liked her with straight hair because the attention goes to her face, not her afro.
January 18, 2011 at 7:52 am
Hey, I don’t know if you know this, but Aminat has done way more just that. She appeared on the Tyra show plenty of times and she has walked in a whole bunch of fashion show – about like 14. You should look it up and update her!
January 19, 2011 at 2:02 am
Hi Lola,
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, there’s only one me and 200 girls to update. I’m doing the best I can to get to Aminat. I’m currently in the middle of updating Cycle 7 and Cycle 13. Thanks again for visiting.
Modelscribe
January 26, 2011 at 5:24 am
Oh, okay. She has way more pics on Google and on her Facebook, too. Tell me when you update her. Thanks lots!
February 6, 2011 at 7:11 am
Aminat has done way more than this. I agree she has to part of Sachika New York Fashion Week which means she has walked in numerous shows and and was a spokesperson for BET http://vimeo.com/6122279. And she has way more photos and she was known to have one of the best bodies of ANTM history. Whoever controls this: Why didn’t you write about her enough?
February 14, 2011 at 12:40 am
Hi there, Abbir,
I’m the person – one and only person – who facilitates this blog. I have not updated Aminat’s photographs because I’m working on other cycles and there is a new cycle beginning next week. Please understand that I’m the only person who updates this blog and there are 200 or so models to update on a daily basis. (And other than this blog, I have a full-time job.) And though I appreciate your passion to see Aminat updated, I’ll get to her soon; please have patience as there are many models and only one me.
Thanks so much and keep visiting,
ModelScribe
February 7, 2011 at 4:57 am
Didn’t think that she photographed well. Not all that pretty.
April 5, 2011 at 12:44 am
Oh yeah … I’d like to see what you look like. I bet you have all kinds of photos of how pretty you are right, Patricia? They put you on TV and let you model and everything right cause you’re sooo pretty. Come out from behind your computer, bet you look like the troll you sound like.
June 16, 2011 at 3:02 am
LMAO…I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING, BUT U SAID IT!!!
September 28, 2011 at 3:33 am
Your post is in poor taste. Each person’s entitled to their opinion – you are, and so is everyone else. Whether someone else looks like a model has no bearing on their opinion – I can eat in a restaurant and complain about the meal, and I wouldn’t expect the chef to come out and say, “Think you can do better?” We’re interested in what you have to say about the models; respectfully, no one wants to read your sarcastic takes on other posters’ and their opinions.
February 20, 2011 at 10:59 am
She was very beautiful in person though.
April 3, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Patricia, no disrespect but you are blind.
April 22, 2011 at 12:15 am
Absolutely beautiful woman and amazing body and run way walk……but attitude? It stinks! She was consistently mean and snappy towards other girls and that turned me off. I seriously felt that she should have been eliminated much, much earlier. Other girls did much better than she in all of the challenges and photo shoots ( same face EVERY time ) except perhaps the samba challenge.
May 13, 2011 at 6:18 pm
She reminded me a LOT of Danielle. AMAZING body…would kill to have that! I think she is very high fashion and just needed to work on some areas. Allison was my favorite from this season (well, my favorite from every season, actually) but I did like Aminat.
July 3, 2011 at 7:40 pm
Aminat should have won her season. That is all.
July 7, 2011 at 8:19 am
Aminat is pretty, BUT her look is sooo distinctive, that she would only book certain types of gigs. I think the only reason ppl say shes unattractive is because on the show she came across as a ghetto, know it all. Which I agree is not attractive.
July 21, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Do not confuse Hollywood and modelling – they have absolutely nothing in common. Susan said it right on. She got the legs and the height, but not the face.
July 31, 2011 at 8:55 am
Of course Europe wouldn’t like her… her lips are too large, her nose is too wide, her skin is too dark… basically she is too black, and we all know they prefer white models. It is harder for a beautiful dark-skinned woman to get work in high fashion than light-skinned ones. Yes, we can all name a few who have succeeded, but they are more the exception to the rule.
Honestly, I think she is stunning, but in every photo she has the exact same expression, so I just don’t think she translates well into print. The runway, though, wow. She is tall, elegant, and captures your eye quickly. She moves with grace and has a body begging to be dressed in couture.
August 24, 2011 at 4:19 am
She has a great body but she just looks friggin mean. I’d have no desire to buy stuff she endorses..
September 29, 2011 at 5:21 am
OK, I’m not trying to be unkind here, but just try this: go look at Aminat’s photos up top (especially the ones with her smiling broadly) and tell me she doesn’t look like a dude in drag! Especially the full face shot with the two white spaghetti straps. Yikes! I’m not “in the scene” as it were, but I believe there are those who would call that shot, “a bit tranny.”
October 12, 2011 at 10:51 pm
I think, that on New York fashion week Made in Africa by Arise Magazine is Aminat
November 23, 2011 at 4:11 am
I like Allison over both of them, but I DEFINITELY take Aminat over Teyona.
And I honestly think she has a beautiful smile
December 27, 2011 at 1:39 am
Aminat is my absolute favorite model from ANTM! I think she is beautiful and has an amazing body! I was happy that she sent me a friend request on facebook over the weekend! I wish her continued success in her career!
February 1, 2012 at 12:50 am
beautiful very beautiful but honestly a little empty headed..this cycle was disappointing overall..girls’ personalities were ugh