Teyona Anderson was a contestant and winner of Cycle 12 of ANTM.
During the Top Model semi-finals, the New Jersey native was the ninth girl called to join the final thirteen competing for America’s Next Top Model, Cycle 12. Throughout the competition, she had been called first three times, being widely considered versatile and naturally photogenic by the judges. She also received praise for her consistent photos and chameleon portfolio, as well as her “wind-in-the-face” look. She struggled with her final commercial, and landed in the bottom two for the first (and only) time, but survived against fellow competitor Aminat Ayinde. At the final judging, she was deemed to be neck and neck with fellow contestant Allison Harvard, but was believed to have a greater passion for modeling, making her the judges’ pick for America’s Next Top Model.
Since the show, Teyona has walked in nearly thirty shows in Arise Cape Town Fashion Week and taken part South Africa Fashion Week. She has appeared in a spread for In Touch Weekly and had a cover and spread in Seventeen Magazine (July 2009) as part of her ANTM prize package. She has also modeled for Destiny Magazine, Glamour Magazine (South Africa), Edgars Club Magazine, and Soul Magazine.
Teyona is currently signed with Elite Model Management in New York and Cape Town.
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Teyona's Seventeen Cover after winning ANTM
Photos from her portfolio with Elite.
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Photos from her portfolio with Elite.
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Photos from her portfolio with Elite.
Photos from her portfolio with Elite.
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August 2, 2010 at 7:33 am
I think she is my favorite winner!
August 29, 2010 at 2:34 am
Same for me! Favorite winner!
September 5, 2010 at 2:26 am
Not my favorite. She did the same exact pose the whole season. She thought her winning was decided early in spite of her performance.
September 21, 2010 at 11:31 pm
Quit hating!!!!
September 3, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Not liking someone is NOT hating. Get it together.
September 8, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Teyona was the best! She deserved to win and she has such fabulous poses. She had the passion for modeling and it showed in her pictures throughout the show.
September 13, 2010 at 8:53 pm
Her skin is amazing.
October 7, 2010 at 11:18 pm
My least favorite. Allison should have won!
July 14, 2011 at 8:38 am
Yesss!! I loved Allison…
October 21, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Lindíssima. Em minha opinião, uma das melhores apostas da Tyra. Teyona é “fiercecíssima,” marcante, elegante, bela e versátil. Allison é uma boneca bonitinha, mas não é versátil nem parece modelo. Vitória justa e merecida.
Rough Translation: “Pretty. In my opinion, one of the best picks by Tyra. Teyona is “fierce,” outstanding, elegant, beautiful and versatile. Allison is a pretty doll, but it is not versatile and it does not seem modelesque. She deserved the victory.”
October 26, 2010 at 8:54 pm
She is she the most successful winner in ANTM history; seems like it. The only winners with obvious potential were Mckey, Jaslene and Teyona. These three are doing quite well to date. Oh and Nicole (cycle 5) too, but not as wanted.
Even then, these girls have dim futures; that’s reality. WELL,TEYONA MIGHT CONTINUE GARNERING SUCCESS, HOPEFULLY! ALL THE BEST GIRL! YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!!!!!
Poor Nicole, she is NOT a “busy” model. Krista … we’ll see!
October 28, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Teyona deserved to win! Allison isn’t as chameleon-ish; Teyona can be sweet, edgy and more! Alison not!
November 14, 2010 at 7:53 am
I was quite surprised when Teyona won over Allison but her post-win photos prove that she has a tremendously successful future in the fashion and perhaps film industry.
She absolutely stunning!
It seems that Tyra and the other judges could see her obvious and overwhelming potential.
November 14, 2010 at 7:58 am
I cannot stop looking at her closeup headshot.
BE-U-Ti-FULLLL Teyona!!!!!!!
I send you great abundance and wish you amazing success!!!
November 19, 2010 at 4:43 pm
I think she is the ugliest winner. My favourites are McKey and Naima.
November 23, 2010 at 5:35 am
What stunning, fierce beauty. I can’t even remember the runner-up.
November 25, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Allison was better … what a pity that she didn’t win.
November 26, 2010 at 5:43 am
I wanted Allison to win!
She was the so awkward. She reminded me of Lauren from Cycle 11! Allison improved a lot!! She deserved it.
Wow, I can’t believe that they made 15 cycles! Here in Argentina, Cycle 12′s just finished!
November 26, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Дура … я за Эллисон!
December 13, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Эллисон лучше ееЁЁЁ
January 16, 2011 at 10:38 pm
Возможно Элисон вовсе не лучше.
January 16, 2011 at 10:40 pm
P.S. В этом сезоне чего-то никто меня не впечатлил. Теона вообщем-то молодец, но …… (какая-то она лысая)
December 21, 2010 at 7:52 pm
I like her WAY better than Krista.
January 4, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Allisons sucks. She is stupid n’ boring doll without any emotions on her fase…except fear (maybe).
I don’t understand why she is on 2nd place of top model!
November 19, 2011 at 10:55 am
LOL. That is probably one of the dumbest comments I’ve ever read here. How was Allison stupid? Because Teyona accused her of plotting against the other girls even though she had no evidence whatsoever that Allison was involved? Because she and Celia were having fun in the house while Teyona was trying to act mature and pretentious? Please, bitch.
Secondly, how can you say that no emotion registers on her face? Did you skip through the first photo shoot, the second one, the Carmen Miranda photo shoot, the bird photo shoot, the cover girl photo?
If she doesn’t appeal to you, fine. No one can force that upon you. But don’t make yourself look like an idiot by bringing up a host of non existent accusations just to make your girl look good.
January 5, 2011 at 2:53 am
Congratulations Teyona! Love the photos. I like Allison too and wish her all the best
January 19, 2011 at 3:41 am
We’ll they had to choose someone to win and they choose the BLAH of the other BLAH.
January 29, 2011 at 12:13 am
Teyona deserved it; she only had like one bad photoshoot. One of the best winners! Her and Aminat were my faves, so at least one of my faves won!
January 30, 2011 at 3:14 am
Allison should have won.
February 7, 2011 at 4:53 am
Teyona is absolutely flawless — she had no competition.
March 6, 2011 at 4:21 am
She’s so annoying, I don’t think she’ll make it big. And she’s not going to be one of the models to remember in the future.
April 22, 2011 at 12:06 am
I agree. I was very disappointed in this girls attitude on the show. She seemed to be kind of snide towards the other girls except for Aminat ( of course! ). I hate to say it but I think it’s another example of Tyra’s feeling sorry for the ‘girl from the hood’ thing. The girl did not know how to dress and had no fashion knowledge what so ever. I wish her well, but I don’t think she was the best in her season. This was my least favourite season of ANTM ever. I liked Celia, Fo and Allison but that was it. Chicky chicky boom!
March 22, 2011 at 8:54 am
One of these winners that you seem to remember less than the contestants. Very bland personality, she won because she wanted it the most. Cycle 12 was probably my favorite cycle ever but Teyona is really forgetable. I see she’s having some kind of a career and I wish her luck though.
April 16, 2011 at 5:34 am
Yeah, my favorite cycle, too. But I think Aminat was the most beautiful and she should have won.
June 16, 2011 at 2:35 am
Yeah Aminat was definetly the most Beautiful and she should have won! Her covergirl pic wasn’t even that bas!
May 15, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Sweet girl but she reminds me of a horse. When she smiles you can’t see her eyes just those huge horse teeth.
May 26, 2011 at 2:42 am
I honestly think that Allison should have won. Teyona and Aminat were annoying the whole season, getting all up in other contestants business, they acted like they were all that and were always bickering with the other girls. Im glad that Aminat did not win though cause she was so bleh and ghetto.
May 28, 2011 at 12:56 am
Yeah Aminat was definetly and she should have won but Teyona And Aminat were my fave so im still happy Teyona won.
June 18, 2011 at 12:33 am
Beautiful woman inside and out. I’m glad she has gone on to be so successful. I did like Allison a little more, but I’m glad Teyona won over a few of those b*tches in the competition.
July 7, 2011 at 2:23 am
I wonder how they make her nearly “white” in some photos and really dark black in others?? The power of the editing tool I guess!!! Look above at her photos-Very Very Different!!!
July 17, 2011 at 8:27 pm
gorgeous pictures!
July 19, 2011 at 12:24 am
My faves were Aminat, Teyona, and Allison. I agree that Teyona didn’t have the stage presence, but her pictures were fierce. and she was consistent with her photos. Aminat had a strong personal appearance but her pictures weren’t good. I wanted Aminat to do better because she had the most stunning body and presence. At first with Allison I thought what did Tyra drag in, but her pictures were very good, and she was a sweet girl and kind of weird but lovable. Over all Teyona deserved this win because she was so focused and consistant. Her photos above are stunning, what beautiful skin.
July 24, 2011 at 6:13 pm
Teyona is an amazing model. That’s why she’ll be working a long time. She poses so well. I am so happy for her.
July 30, 2011 at 2:02 am
IMHO Cycle 12 standings should have been:
1- Teyona Anderson (I also liked Allison more than Teyona, but I thought that she totally deserved the win).
2- Allison Harvard
3- Celia Ammermann
4- Tahlia Brookins
5- Fo Porter (seriously, that pic on the beach totally sucked)
6- Natalie Pack
7- London Levi-Nance (she did better than Aminat on the photoshoot, but her body was getting even more uglier)
8- Aminat Ayinde
9- Sandra Nyanchoka (clueless)
(agree on the rest).
Aminat way OVERRATED, she is only good on catwalk, she didn’t take a single “fine” picture all competition, and she was tall & beautiful. Celia and Tahlia weren’t that beautiful, but were able to take pretty good pictures, in the bird nest photos, Celia’s photo was pretty intriguing and she was beautiful on it, she was really shining on her last photos, even when she did have some problems with her face looking old, she compensated that with good body positioning.
August 18, 2011 at 10:40 am
sorry,i don’t like her.I like Allison
September 27, 2011 at 10:31 pm
The reason she won? Tyra had already planned the all star version of ANTM to see Allison rock the show again… OMG, I’m such a big fan of Allison she was so cute!! and fragile in a good way and also creepy in a charming way AWWWW
November 3, 2011 at 10:45 pm
She’s been working with some really good photographers post antm.. unlike some
November 19, 2011 at 11:00 am
The only reason why she won was because she wanted it more than Allison does. Plus, her attitude during the show was very disappointing. Her and Aminat were so self righteous and they made themselves look like idiots when they did the very same things that they accused the other girls of doing. I don’t think that they even realize that until now. LOL.
A quote from Aminat would suffice: “Stupid, stupid, stupid, Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. x10.”
December 15, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Why does she do the same pose all the time? Even her face is a copy in almost every photo… Too serius, by the way. Gee I wonder if her head is too heavy or something. I guess you need to give something fresh, new in every shot if you want to win ANTM… Isn’t it right, Tyra? Then what happened in season 12?
December 30, 2011 at 6:07 pm
I’m tottally hate this one. She’s ugly, her photoshots sucks, and Allison is way more deserve to win
January 10, 2012 at 11:11 am
i do really like teyona cause she’s my idol! more powers to her career!
February 2, 2012 at 4:53 am
I really think Allison should have won, but I admit Teyona was not the baddest choice… I mean, it could have been Aminat! Yuk… And Tyra chose her because she knows runner-ups usually have more success than the actual winners and she wanted Allison to have success. Plus, if Allison would have won this season, she wouldn’t be on All Stars. So in fact, I’m quite happy Teyona won!