Jael Strauss was a contestant during Cycle 8 of ANTM.
Jael is an aspiring model, who, prior to her participation in the eighth season of America’s Next Top Model, was working as a manager of several bands in Hollywood. She was also previously involved in band promotions in Detroit. She decided to try out for the reality show after a talent scout discovered her through her MySpace account. Other people close to Jael also felt she was a perfect candidate for the modeling competition. Despite making it to the finals, Jael admitted that she had not been a fan of the show prior to her participation and even thought that the competition would be easy.
For her first shoot as a finalist on America’s Next Top Model, Cycle 8, Jael was asked to embody the pro-life political view. Her performance spared her from elimination, and she continued to impress the judges until the seventh challenge, where the finalists were asked to relive the most memorable moments of the series. Jael was tasked to mimic Cycle 4’s Rebecca Epley’s fall during the panel evaluation, but she was criticized for appearing too mechanical. She landed in the bottom two with Whitney Cunningham, but was spared from elimination again when the judges decided to send Whitney home. However, her performance on the CoverGirl commercial the following week failed to impress the judges and she was consequently eliminated from the show.
Jael used to be signed with Otto Models and also had her own clothing line with Hitch Couture. As of 2012, Strauss is reported to be battling methamphetamine addiction. She is appeared on the Dr. Phil show on September 13, 2012 she discusses her struggle with addiction
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August 20, 2010 at 7:05 pm
Jael isn’t innocent, but she has an innocent quality that makes you love her.
April 26, 2011 at 12:51 pm
so well said.
July 3, 2011 at 7:34 pm
I love Jael. She is down to earth and a sweetheart.
October 17, 2011 at 11:59 am
the best sentences to describe jael.
love her.
November 12, 2010 at 9:48 pm
This is very vulgar.
November 20, 2010 at 11:07 pm
She didn’t look like a model on the show and these pictures REALLY confirm that. She doesn’t look good at all.
December 8, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Not to you. But since when has the judgement of beauty been absolute? NEVER.
December 17, 2010 at 6:38 pm
она супер!!!!!!!!
December 17, 2010 at 6:39 pm
She’s super.
December 18, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Она ужасна!
Она лизби?
January 18, 2011 at 4:45 pm
пипец… это правда ужас.
January 19, 2011 at 2:22 am
Wish she shouldn’t have acted like she was high most of the time.
January 28, 2011 at 7:08 am
You can either hate Jael or love her. But I still think that everyone has a soft spot in their heart for her.
January 29, 2011 at 10:00 am
I can’t believe that she could ever make any career in modeling. I love her for being Jael, she was my favorite competitor in her cycle.
February 10, 2011 at 1:17 am
I think she should have followed her career. I’m disappointed looking at these pictures, because I feel like she just gave up. She is having fun, but not thinking about her future. I really liked her, she was really true to the other girls in the house, and did an amazing job on her shoots.
February 15, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Обожаю ее и она смешный человек.
March 4, 2011 at 4:34 am
She makes one HOT nerd.
April 23, 2011 at 2:27 am
This woman (Jael) has to be one of the ugliest & dumbest people I’ve ever seen. She tries too hard to be odd. So hard that she’s fake. If she’s a model, I’m E.T. She makes me want to vomit just looking at her. Nothing about her is attractive. Thank God Tyra kicked her off. I don’t care how far she made it. Second, third, forth, whatever……..she’s still a loser & thank God she went away. Now only if she’d go further.
November 16, 2011 at 8:17 am
think before you speak, did that coment cause any good?
December 8, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Ok then. Good luck returning to your home planet ET because those photos mean that she’s is (or was) a model whether you like it or not. Go, ET. Phone home.
April 24, 2011 at 6:48 am
This girl was a terrible model and terribly annoying. No soft spot for her whatsoever, I’m afraid.
Probably one of ANTM’s strangest choices in terms of someone who could ever make a decent model, physically as well as in terms of displaying any potential.
April 25, 2011 at 7:25 am
I haven’t been able to forget about her since she was on show– 4 years ago. She’s definitely built like a model BUT I just think she is too REAL to give a staged pose as most models are instructed to and do well at. She’s totally unconventional and maybe the next step to what modeling will graduate to: Realness. Aren’t we all tired of the same contrived poses from all these models on evry single page in a magazine we come across? True “Sexy” is a genuine moment that’s caught on camera and never a staged and held pose, in my book. Rock on Jael. I totally get your beautiful sexy ass;)
June 16, 2011 at 12:44 am
I love her, her photos and her voice!
June 24, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Nice look, but again to dramatic, I bet the so called friend of hers who died, she talked 2 them once on the street and that was in. americans are amazingly dramatic, tha sadder they can make a story the happier they are, poor me, poor me.
July 29, 2011 at 8:19 am
That is awful to say about Jael. Yes she is dramatic and so are americans but her friend died and you are trying to mock her. She acted like anyone who lost a friend would act and you are just acting like a heartless monster.
September 20, 2011 at 8:49 pm
Why are you insulting Americans? And how do you know what Jael is thinking? Dude, you need to take notice that you are on an entertainment forum bashing strangers. I think you are the one with the problem, poor you having to be forced to watch ANTM.
August 16, 2011 at 7:17 am
Jael is/was the truest real person I’ve seen on this show!!! She seem to have giving into the hypersexualisation but maybe that the only type of paying off job they have left as top model industry in america… It is what sell-out the most especially in America.. She makes me think about Pink trying to be her in this crazy sexual barbies we sell to the world. And I think eventually when she’ll be able too (get into the market of different modeling she’ll go for something more contraversal but totally her true opinion!
Go Jael… Don’t get stuck in this sex is all world!!
September 20, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Jael added an interesting twist which is probably why they casted her. It is a reality show after all, I found her enjoyable.
September 29, 2011 at 12:50 am
Loved Jael, she was just so unique and a great spirit, stunning eyes.
October 11, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Here’s why Jael hasn’t made it as a model – she’s an attention seeker. 50 Cent was right to push her into the pool at that celebrity party.
October 29, 2011 at 10:33 pm
She’s such an attention seeker.
November 23, 2011 at 1:55 am
Not, that it really matter, but how are you, ethnically, African-american?
You do not look the part!!!
December 1, 2012 at 12:28 pm
Too bad she messed up her looks already being a freakin crackhead………….WAKE UP JAEL! You look like some dried up old bitch in her seventies that drank really hard for sixty of those years
What are you 27, 28? What a waste!!!!!!!!!!!
December 10, 2012 at 1:44 am
I hope she can beat meth and take her life back
December 14, 2012 at 10:53 pm
Unfortunately Jael has a serious drug problem (meth). She was on Dr. Phil with her parents this year. She does NOT look good.
December 18, 2012 at 5:48 pm
This needs to be updated. Didn’t she get addicted to meth? I think she was on Dr. Phil. She’s got the meth user facial skin now, poor thing. I’m glad she did get to do some work though. Don’t know if its possible for your body to bounce back from that but it would be awesome if she did. I love her raunchy style
December 20, 2012 at 1:07 am
Jael is out of the modeling world.She was addicted to Meth,Cocaine and Vicodin.They did an intervention on Dr.Phil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R3-Ce9Plt0
December 22, 2012 at 4:55 am
jael, ur real kool, sweet ‘n nice. please don’t change. good luck in ur future.
December 28, 2012 at 10:34 pm
Well, she’s a crystal meth addict now… http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2204878/Americas-Next-Top-Model-CariDee-English-blames-Jael-Strauss-crystal-meth-addiction.html
January 10, 2013 at 3:04 pm
she has more pictures than any other girls..it surprises me. but what makes me surprise when she ended up with meth and she looks horrible
January 24, 2013 at 10:57 pm
I hope she is clean now!! So sad what drugs do to people