Lauren “London” Levi-Nance was a contestant during Cycle 12 of ANTM.
The 18-year-old Arlington, Texas native was a student during her appearance on the show. London, a 2008 graduate of Martin High School in Arlington, TX, was always recognized for her flair for fashion. Viewed as a trendsetter, her stylish ensembles were sometimes copied by her classmates. And she was always known in the hallways as being “that really pretty girl.”
The pieces of London’s ANTM opportunity began coming together while she was working at Faces in The Parks at Arlington mall. It was there that London met makeup artist Tawnie Tatum who started using the aspiring model for various makeup shoots. After being scouted by an ANTM representative who saw her photo in Tatum’s online portfolio, London was invited to an audition for ANTM’s Cycle 12 in Houston. Her bio and video submission were then personally viewed by talk show host and ANTM executive producer Tyra Banks, which led to another move in the direction of a promising modeling career. Once final selections for Cycle 12 were made, London was on the list, with her dream of professionally posing for the camera right at her fingertips.
Her mom Judy, a substitute teacher at Sam Houston High School, said London has model looks without “model” behavior.
“She’s not one of those ‘I’m all that’ type of girls,” Judy said. “She’s real humble and ethical. She’s very sweet and into her faith. She’ll just stop and talk to homeless people.”
Judy, a single mother of four, raised London alone after London’s father left when she was only three and her brother Jackson was just five months. London is the oldest of the siblings. A part from those past family struggles, London also suffered from bulimia, an eating disorder she overcame before joining the ANTM cast for Cycle 12.
London, who was a ‘street preacher’ during her appearance on the show, had a strong presence, as well as captivating photos. Unfortunately, London was becoming increasingly self-conscious of her body when she began to gain some weight. Her body issues became more apparent during her photo shoot with R&B superstar Ciara, so Jay discussed weight concerns with her after the photo shoot, telling her that while she was way too small for plus-size modeling she should watch her eating habits to continue to fit in sample sizes.
In the end, London was eliminated during episode nine. She had won one reward challenge during episode seven.
Upon leaving the show, London told E!, “When I went to the competition, I was recovering from an eating disorder, so my self-confidence was already kind of shaky because of my experience with my problem beforehand. And, I’m pretty sure it did show in my photo shoots.”
Since the show, London appeared in Playboy Magazine in October, 2009. She did not personally pose for the men’s publication; the photographer who took the photos two years prior sent them to Playboy without her knowledge. She confirms this on her Twitter page HERE.
She has taken several test shots, but is not currently signed with an agency.
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September 5, 2010 at 2:18 am
Reminds me of Christina Applegate.
September 12, 2010 at 1:24 am
She is soooooo pretty!
September 16, 2010 at 9:20 pm
I dont think jesus would be proud that she got her baps out for the lads.
October 1, 2010 at 5:32 pm
It is like photoshopped? Excuse me.
October 1, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Sorry, I take my words back. Really sorry!
September 19, 2010 at 11:46 pm
What Christian would show off their naked body in a Playboy magazine?
October 8, 2010 at 10:02 am
What “Christian” judges other people?
October 27, 2010 at 10:44 pm
All Christians.
November 21, 2010 at 3:55 am
What ‘Christian’ judges other people? Well, the Pope and all of his cardinals and other Catholic priests; all of the Republican party leadership and militants; and the overwhelming majority of U.S.-based protestant denominations (with a few notable exceptions). I love it how Christians get to judge and ‘preach’ (in London’s words) everybody, but then they get to do whatever they want and have the guts to play the ‘Christians don’t judge’ card.
September 1, 2011 at 1:42 am
Sigh this is why I am Mormon. We don’t judge anybody. =) And no, Latter-day saints are not associated with Purgatory. So don’t go there.
July 14, 2011 at 11:13 am
God made women. Christian or otherwise, why should we be ashamed to show off our bodies?
December 11, 2011 at 2:54 pm
can you not read? she didn’t pose for Playboy, some rotten photographer that she’d posed for when she was younger sent them in without her knowledge. And before you say you shouldn’t have gotten topless for the photographer, she probably didn’t want to, and the photographer probably convinced her it was in her best interests – THAT SH*T HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. This is one of many reasons why it really sucks that the industry encourages youth in models and experience in everyone else. Google “Terry Richardson” just for one example.
Poor girl, just getting over bulimia and then ending up in that fishbowl. I remember the episode in which Jay talked to her about gaining weight and she obviously felt terrible. Didn’t know about the recent experience with an eating disorder but that has got to have been playing havoc with her mind. I hope she is over it and London – if you ever see this page please know you have supporters who wish you all the very very best.
October 21, 2010 at 4:19 am
She’s so hot!!
October 25, 2010 at 1:08 pm
She’s like a hotter version of Lady Gaga.
November 2, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Lamento que você não nenha conhecido o Brasil na epoca do ANTP, certamente você faz a diferença no mercado de trabalho das modelos… Já arrasou!!!
November 7, 2010 at 9:42 am
I loved her on the show! I really hope she gets signed soon.
November 19, 2010 at 6:00 am
She is the prettiest girl ever in ANTM history! I love her! She is amazing, her photos are terrific!
She is my muse! My drawing inspiration! I do love her. I want her twitter and facebook please!!
Love her sooo much; she should have won it.
November 23, 2010 at 8:26 pm
She’s really very pretty. And dark hair suits her more that blonde.
November 30, 2010 at 1:31 am
Woah, she’s a beauty. Can’t believe she’s not signed. Too bad she decided to do Playboy; I don’t think that’s gonna help her chances with fashion agencies.
December 3, 2010 at 8:45 am
Just to clarify, she didn’t pose for Playboy. She did the photos two years prior from them appearing in Playboy. The photographer sold them to Playboy. She wrote it on her Twitter.
December 7, 2010 at 11:00 am
She is very pretty women!
December 13, 2010 at 8:10 pm
очень милая девушка
December 16, 2010 at 9:56 pm
SHE’S PRETTY AS A BLONDE BUT HER EYES POP WITH THE BROWN HAIR .. SHE SHOULD KEEP IT BROWN .. TYRA DOESN’T KNOW EVERYTHING LIKE SHE THINKS SHE DOES … GOOD LUCK TO YOU LONDON .. YOU WERE ONE OF MY FAVORITES …
May 1, 2011 at 6:41 am
hahahah.. she was always my favorite!! iloveherforevahhhh!!1
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January 11, 2011 at 3:39 pm
She is gorgeous. But did she really bare her top for Playboy or was that photoshopped?
January 12, 2011 at 1:54 am
Hi there,
London did not pose for Playboy, nor is that photo photoshopped. She took the photos with a photographer over two years ago – and the photographer sold them to Playboy without her knowledge. She confirms that on her Twitter page:
Thanks for visiting,
ModelScribe
July 15, 2011 at 7:06 am
.can i have
her tweeter accnt..?
November 23, 2011 at 4:19 pm
If the photographer took the photographs in 2007, wasn’t London under 18 at the time? I mean she was 18 in 2008. So…isn’t that illegal?
January 19, 2011 at 3:35 am
I liked her; she was the only one who had it. Again they eliminated her because she couldn’t stay her size. Medium body people is okay for magazines!!! I mean, c’mon, seriously. Even models can change from skinny modeling to plus-size modeling. Oh yeah, I forgot they can’t be medium built though. Hope she continues and starts modeling. She can go far.
January 29, 2011 at 9:41 am
Her body shape is bad, but her face is sooo gorgeous!
February 4, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Sooo beautiful!!
February 21, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Hey, Christians! Weren’t Adam and Eve nude when they were created? Why do you pay so much attention to whether she is dressed or not? Dressed or nude – she is beautiful both!
June 10, 2011 at 10:31 pm
Honey please don’t be ignorant, read your bible.
September 29, 2011 at 6:38 am
Try reading it yourself.
Christians conveniently take phrases from “the good book” quite literally, while ignoring those that don’t suit them or don’t seem to make sense.
Example? The exact section of the bible which supposedly condemns homosexuality states, in no uncertain terms, that we are also not to eat shellfish, or to sit on a seat on which a menstruating woman has sat. The same page – I kid you not. Now seriously. If we took that one to the bank, most of us girls would be standing one week out of four!
I once heard it said, and it’s oh-so-true: the Holy Trinity – Fear, Guilt and Shame.
And don’t use sarcasms like “honey,” to condescend to others. It strikes me as quite un-Christianly.
September 29, 2011 at 6:30 am
Agreed, Marianna. If the bible is to be taken literally (which I doubt), Adam and Eve were blissfully unashamed of their bodies until they were “cast out,” for seeking knowledge. What kind of a lesson is that, I ask you?
February 26, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Just a thought, if those pictures were taken “2 years earlier” wouldn’t she have been 17, making her a minor? You can’t do nude or topless photos of a minor… 2008 she was 18, 2009 pictures were taken “2 years earlier?” I’m confused.
April 17, 2011 at 9:28 am
I am the photographer who photographed London nude and I can confirm that she WAS NOT under age, as the shoot took place in May of 2008 (not 2007).
I think she got her time-frame wrong when you tweeted.
Regards,
Michael
December 11, 2011 at 2:56 pm
You are a jerk and an a**hole and I hope karma pays you back accordingly.
April 22, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Hold on one minuet why oh why does Tyra and her crew always seem to get things twisted Miss London can model and she’s absolutley stunning and flawless.
April 27, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Can someone kindly cite a verse on the Bible saying that nudity is immoral? In my personal belief, when God says “our body is the temple…” it means that we would have to respect it. London posting naked on a photo doesn’t neccesarily mean she doesn’t respect herself. Malice is for the people who looks at it. Pornography exists because of people’s way of thinking towards nudity. If we have someone to blame, it is ourselves because of our malicious thinking. I’m not a fan of Playboy either. Above all, what is London’s profession? A MODEL right? where nudity is NOT a taboo.It’s not about RELIGION guys… It’s more about personal relationship with our Creator no matter what name we call Him.
April 28, 2011 at 6:33 pm
what is london’s real acct.?? fb,myspace,tweeter..
thanks.. and anyway.. she’s soooo gorgeous!!! loved her from the start..
April 28, 2011 at 6:35 pm
wth?!
*twitter i mean.. gosh! -.-
April 29, 2011 at 5:09 am
ilikeher!!!!!!!
May 16, 2011 at 4:58 am
God bless London… when I saw her at ANTM cycle 12 I say that she had the looks and the soul I say that London looks better with short blond hair than long brown her!… Anyway she looks a little bit of Lady Gaga but great pictures and I am a little bit of surpried that London was at a cover of playboy… I hope she does high fashioned not some porno…
July 15, 2011 at 6:54 am
i love..her eyes……..! and her blonde hair…..
August 18, 2011 at 11:05 am
I like her mouth and her eyes
September 29, 2011 at 6:26 am
I don’t think London is a naturally thin girl. Most girls aren’t. She may have gotten down to model-size to get on the show via her eating disorder (I don’t know this, I’m just saying she may have). However, just “eating healthy,” as Jay suggested to her when he addressed her weight, probably wouldn’t result in her (or most of us) maintaining a model physique.
I liked her in many ways – she was spunky, smart, and added life to the show. But please, girl! Leave Jesus at home, would you? Fine to tell others you’re a preacher, but it’s intrusive to “spread the word” when others aren’t asking for it. Just ’cause it’s “Christian” doesn’t make it less-creepy; if someone had been on the show spreading the Word of Allah, or preaching the tenets of the Hindu Brahma, people would have been aghast.
September 29, 2011 at 7:13 am
They’re boobs, people, get over it. Fifty percent of the world has them, in varying sizes. It’s a human body, for heaven’s sake. It’s such a colossal bore when people shriek about nudity. Yawn.
Mind you, it’s a bit surprising that this girl was the one to have a boob-shot surface. One can just hear her saying, “I know God had a purpose for me, in wanting me to show my boobs, but I’m not sure why.”
I’m surprised that London acted so shocked that the fellow who photographed her sold the shots “behind my back.” Really? Why wouldn’t he sell them? Photographers take and sell photos – that’s how they earn a living. If a boyfriend had taken them and sold them – well, that would be another matter.
Presumably she must have signed-off on this; a magazine like Playboy would never purchase photos from someone who didn’t own the right to sell them. The bottom line (or top!) – if you let someone take pictures of your boobs, don’t be surprised if you see them popping up (literally) somewhere in the future!
October 1, 2011 at 2:24 pm
She is the prettiest girl ever in ANTM! I LOVE her! She is amazing, her photos are terrific!
She is my muse!I want to be as a she. I do love her. Who know her facebook?
Love her sooo much♥ she should have won it. I cried when she go home…♥
She is very very very very very very beautiful…
(maybe I have a lot of mistakes because I’m Russian and know English not so good)
LONDON FOREVER ♥♥♥
October 8, 2011 at 4:56 pm
re: Flashing lightstick photoshoot – replace that with a linksword, her dress with the swimsuit from the post makeover shot and its Ivy Valentine from Soul Calibur
October 14, 2011 at 1:09 am
i’ve been saying this since i saw her. She looks like a young madonna. please tell me you guys see it!
October 28, 2011 at 4:09 am
Christians are idiots. And always judge everyone!!! F*** em! …Personally, I am glad they were fed to the lions… and I wish we could cleanse the earth of at least some of them again. When she’s that hot, Let her be naked… The photographer is a jackass for selling them, though. F*** him, too. London, you are so talented and sweet-hearted. You may actually be the exception in christianity. Suck on that. You people care about the dumbest things on earth.
October 28, 2011 at 4:15 am
Believing in God is one thing… But lumping the most judgemental, close-minded, backstabbing people into one group and calling them christian is kind of like a cult. Well, it IS a cult. Let’s all get together in a huge building to act sweet to one anothers’ faces but then tear them to shreds when they have their back turned. Actually, not all “christians” are bad, I’m sure. I think it may just be a southern thing. The “bible belt”… But down here, in hell, a.k.a. South Carolina, the baptists are the biggest wastes of human life I have ever had the displeasure of knowing. Just despicable.
December 14, 2011 at 7:37 am
its kind of a shame that there isn’t room in the modeling world for people of average weight?
i mean from the sounds of it you have to either be super thing or plus sized