About America's Next Top Model

Thirteen new hopefuls from across the country are given the chance to prove they have what it takes when the competition kicks off.

This season, America's Next Top Model welcomes one of the most influential members of the fashion world, André Leon Talley, editor-at-large of Vogue,, as a new judge during cycle 14 of the hit show on The CW. Talley will join Tyra Banks, photographer Nigel Barker and a weekly guest judge on the judges' panel. Miss J. Alexander, long-time judge, breaks free from the judges' desk to take on a mentoring role during challenges with the models.

Cycle 14 welcomes a panel of rotating guest judges that include: Sally Hershberger (Salon Owner/Proprietor), Rachel Roy (Runway Fashion Designer), Sean Patterson (President of Wilhelmina Models), Dania Ramirez (CoverGirl Representative), Patricia Cleveland (First African American Supermodel), Ann Shoket (Editor in Chief of Seventeen Magazine), Whitney Port (Star of The City, Runway Fashion Designer), Sara Tetro (Owner of 62 Models), Sara McLeod (Actress from Lord of the Rings) and Top Model photo shoot director Jay Manuel.

The winner of America's Next Top Model will receive a $100,000 contract with cosmetics giant CoverGirl and appear on the cover and in a six-page fashion spread of Seventeen magazine.

America's Next Top Model is produced by 10 by 10 Entertainment, in association with Bankable Productions. Tyra Banks is the creator and executive producer along with Ken Mok (Making the Band) and Daniel Soiseth (Hell's Kitchen).