Sharaun Brown

The Notorious Fierce Fourteen Top Model Inauguration The Ladder of Model Success You're Beautiful, Now Change In the cycle 11 season premiere, 30 girls are selected to strike their fiercest pose at the Top Model Institute of Technology. A hi-tech runway analyzes the girls' strut & Tyra, Miss J and Jay Manuel assess which 14 show the most Top Model potential. One of the models making waves causes a stir when she reveals that she's transgender!

Benny Ninja is back to educate the girls about posing, but one girls takes contorting her body a little too far. Back at the house, the models bond in the hot tub where two girls get close and others have a confrontation about discrimination.

The ladies practice their strut down a catwalk while wearing blindfolds and one girl shocks the judges when she decides to lift her dress while posing. The winner of the blindfold challenge will pose for designer Kira Plastinina in a Seventeen Magazine advertorial. In this week's photo challenge, the girls pose with their eyes.

The contestants are thrilled when Paulina shows up to show them how to model unflattering clothing with style. Jay takes the girls to a new level when he asks them to pose as Los Angeles' "natural" disasters including an earthquake, tidal wave, heat wave and a traffic jam.

The models show off their best backstage award show snafu poses at Los Angeles' famous Orpheum Theatre.