Renee Alway was a contestant and one of the top three during Cycle 8 of ANTM.
Renee was born and raised in northern Michigan, where her father was a pastor and police officer. She revealed in the first episode of Modelville on October 8, 2008 that her father was physically and mentally abusive, and that her, her siblings, and her mother Sandra, were afraid to leave due to her father’s respected position in the community as well as his mental instability.
As one of the final three contestants on America’s Next Top Model, Cycle 8, Renee heard about the audition for the show the day before it took place in Chicago, and had been in town to get married. She went to the audition four days after she got married.
Renee started modeling when she was 13. Before Top Model, she modeled in New York, Europe and Japan and appeared in Seventeen and Italian Vogue. She also appeared in ads for Delia’s and in US Weekly with Jaslene Gonzalez, Natasha Galkina and Dionne Walters. Renee appeared on the CBS TV series Shark, in an episode titled “In Absentia.” She also competed on the reality show Modelville, that airs within the Tyra Banks Show, and finished 2nd.
Before Top Model, Renee was a stay-at-home mother. She and her husband Jason have a young son named Troy. She has stated that it was hard for her to find jobs because she was just lost in a sea of blond-haired, blue-eyed models.
Renee Alway is currently signed with NEXT Model Management.
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March 25, 2010 at 11:38 am
In an interview, Renee said she hated her ANTM makeover because it made her look old.
October 5, 2010 at 7:42 pm
I hated it too!
May 18, 2010 at 2:52 am
I always wondered what Renee was doing now a days. She was one of my favorite contestants on ANTM, however I think that her current modeling shots make her look so much younger. She looks great and I hope she has a long fulfilling career ahead of her.
March 20, 2011 at 3:33 am
I know what she has been doing! I also know her; she has a baby girl now!
April 28, 2011 at 9:13 pm
wow that’s really good to know
I was practically obsessed with her back then 
June 23, 2011 at 7:28 pm
Oh! What is the name of her daughter???=))) Has Renee a job as a model???
I think she is the best. I love her very much. Renee has a real model appearence.
July 19, 2010 at 10:57 am
She is the type of model one would want to see in Harper’s Bazaar and on the catwalks of Paris. I wish her agency would send her to Paris or London.
August 17, 2010 at 9:03 am
Her personality sucked!
November 18, 2010 at 12:20 am
I agree! she was such a complainer and always had an excuse for why she didn’t win something! She didn’t win cause she sucked! Jaslene was fantastic! And still is!
January 24, 2011 at 12:46 am
I agree with you both. She was a very sore loser and would not stop crying when she lost on modelville. She made sure America knew about the time she ran into Jael out in Los Angeles and that Jael was trying to get her to do drugs at some party.
January 27, 2011 at 2:16 am
I so agree!!!! She was such a hater! Ugh! Just really, really got on my LAST nerve!!!
October 1, 2011 at 11:14 pm
You three don’t have any personality. Renee was brilliant!
September 4, 2010 at 8:06 am
I really hated her on the show, but now that I look back, she was a really great model and she has a somewhat Egyptian looking face.
October 1, 2010 at 5:00 pm
She’s my all time fav.
October 9, 2010 at 3:43 am
I mean, she was good, but she really was malicious on ANTM. I am so surprised she wasn’t eliminated earlier for being mean. But hey, Naomi isn’t/wasn’t nice either and she was and is the best!!
October 19, 2010 at 2:20 am
Ugh, Renee. How could she be anyones favorite?! She had an absolutely vile personality and was a total bitch. Every time I watch this season all I think of is how horrid and nasty she was … yuck. Ugly inside and out!
January 27, 2011 at 2:20 am
I so feel the same way. You’re inside has to match your outside. So yes, Renee was ugly INSIDE and OUT!!! Ewwww, yuck! Such a hater and a BIG cry baby. Sooooo glad she didn’t win. She’s a bad role model for young girls; as if they aren’t catty enough with out someone like her to look up too!
May 9, 2011 at 10:40 pm
I so agree…Mean,fake INSIDE and OUT!!!
October 1, 2011 at 11:15 pm
Shut up, she came third. thats still good. SHES THE MODEL. Don’t see you getting anywhere, eh?
November 3, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Renee. Hmmm. What could I say? I JUST LOVE HER! Actually I hated her ANTM makeover a lot. She looked old! But her current photos were great. I really believe that she will have a bright future. She is one of my favorite ANTM contestants!
November 18, 2010 at 10:46 am
I was just watching the replay of Renee being eliminated, still hurts!
She was my fave! Even though she was a b*tch in the beginning. Good thing she fizzled it down a notch later on. LOL.
I know some people hated her make over, but even though she did looked a little older, I reckon she rocked that hairstyle!
March 4, 2011 at 4:31 am
I COMPLETELY agree with everything you said. She was great.
November 20, 2010 at 5:55 am
Renee is my all time favorite as well!! My opinion that she looked too old is BS. She is the total package. Being a photographer myself, I would love to have a chance to photograph her someday!!!
December 7, 2010 at 5:05 am
You’re no Nigel Barker.
December 11, 2010 at 2:55 am
And your point is “xxx,” Nigel is no Al Ungar either. LOL
December 20, 2010 at 1:33 am
Renee, I think the short cut is absolutely on you!
January 19, 2011 at 2:24 am
OMG, was she annoying. First she cried because they never gave her the “sexier” photos. And when she gets a good critique she’s like “Yeah, I love the pose.” Blah. Didn’t like her and she was fake; also very annoying.
February 12, 2011 at 9:18 pm
I hated this chick. She definitely was a sore loser, but was also just an outright B*TCH! I remember catching her on Tyra’s other show and they did some other type of competition where she had a “second chance” along with some other previous ANTM models and when once again she didn’t win, she literally stormed off of the set. It was so incredibly childish, immature, unprofessional, etc. I couldn’t stand her. I also don’t think she was physically attractive at all. That ugly ass personality of hers certainly added to the ugliness of her outside appearance.
March 4, 2011 at 4:29 am
She was DAMN HOT as a guy!
March 15, 2011 at 5:44 am
Didn’t like her on the show at all. All she did was complain about how broke she and her family were, I didn’t get why (if she was so broke) she didn’t get an actual job instead of wasting time and money competing on a reality show. She did take some good photos, though.
May 1, 2011 at 11:46 pm
the point of the show is to start a career in modeling, which brings in money. its not just some reality tv show. she was doing it for her family
May 1, 2011 at 11:45 pm
Renee was amazing and beautiful! one reason she lost is because she looks too old? thats complete shit. and yeah in the beginning she was a bitch to everyone but if you watched the whole season you know it was because she had a rough childhood and that she talked to tyra and completely changed. even the other girls said she was smiling, happy, and nice after the talk. She was a great model! her or natasha should have won!
May 7, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Beautiful? YES! Beautiful enough to have that shitty bitchass attitude? HELL NO!
May 19, 2011 at 7:15 pm
I loved Renee, i never saw her as being bitchy, just someone who was brutally honest. She did try to make amends, but she also had something of an inferiority complex and at times too many self doubts, and a low self esteem and that is only natural especially when trying to make it in modelling. She was a fierce model and still is. I love many of her photo shoots. Her glam rock photo was awesome, she had that David Bowie thing going which was fierce. I loved her class clown look too and her sexy candy necklace photo. Long may she continue.
June 22, 2011 at 12:29 pm
I thought the age issue from the judges was totally bs.
June 23, 2011 at 10:45 pm
She was my favourite in the 8th cycle,and she’s the best!
July 8, 2011 at 1:21 am
Renee is hot and everybody sees that. But I guess it is hard to see somebody with a pretty body before and after having her babys. If you ask me, I think she has all the personality, beauty and great pics to be ”ANTM.”
July 13, 2011 at 5:24 am
I thought she was just awful and a bitch at that! Not only was she a bitch to the girls, but she seemed difficult to work with and didn’t take criticism well. When you are starting out, you don’t have the luxury of being a “diva”. You have to get along with people and she showed that she doesn’t have that in her.
As far as her looking old—she did! She looked much older than her years. It wasn’t b.s. They are not going to select someone if they don’t feel she will be bookable because they won’t make money. Even a couple of the go-sees she went on–that was the comment-that she looked old and they didn’t want to book her.
July 20, 2011 at 9:29 pm
she was a brilliant model and you cannot deny that! look at her photos for proof! would you not be a bit mean to people if you had the same kind of start in life as she did? and did she not change when she realised what she was doing? i think so. people deal with things in different ways and you dont just get over the things that happened to her. she never made excuses. cut her some slack.
August 18, 2011 at 12:42 am
She was hypocrit!! When herself, Jaslene and Dionne are out and Natasha is sick, she said that one had to go and you mean who, speaking of Natasha. When they were three and she was eliminated, she hugged Natasha and told her to win it for the mothers. I would have loved to be with Natasha when she watched it!!! Something else that annoyed me, was her complaining about no getting easy poses to do (specially the high school stereotypes) that everyone else got easy stuff do to.. well lady, you are there to perform and adapt yourself to what they request from you.. Never believed she was only 20.
October 12, 2011 at 12:51 am
thought Renee was great, she didnt look old. she was genuine, pretty and i hope she goes far with her career.
from jackie in uk
November 22, 2011 at 3:50 am
Her nagging personality made her look old…
December 9, 2011 at 3:48 pm
yikes. a couple of those photos are a little skanky.
January 26, 2012 at 9:31 pm
Really good photos, she’s done a lot