This girl is FIERCE. As the members of the Excelano Project, the readers of CO-ED Magazine, and the Penn-community-at-large will tell you, home girl's got it goin' on. College sophomore and Chicago native Noelle majors in PPE, speaks fluent French and performs some feisty spoken word poetry. From day one of Penn's Next Top Model contest, she brought the competition to a new level with her "amazing face" (Ms. Lizette, Shoot 2), unique style and propensity for hamming it up in front of the camera. Even DJ Faggotron (photographer Phil Leff) couldn't resist her resemblance to an '80s record cover girl. Noelle puts the Ass in Sass.
Street: What kind of feedback have you gotten since starting Penn's Next Top Model?
NB: I have gotten positive feedback for the most part. Guys haven't really approached me at an increased rate or anything.
Street: Have you modeled in the past?
NB: Yes. I was in a Kimberly-Clark calendar when I was four years old, and apparently I am in this CO-ED Magazine spread ... this woman came up to me at Smokes' one night and was like, "You must come and take a picture for our magazine and compete to be a cover girl, because your hair is so cool."
Street: Have you ever aspired to be a top model?
NB: In the back of my mind when I put makeup on.
Street: You're in Excelano -- tell us about your latest performance. What was your poem about?
NB: Our latest show was one of the best we have ever had. I did a group piece with Caroline Rothstein, Ben Alisuag and Mohamed (Mos) Sow called "the annotated piece," which basically made fun of "deep" poems and three potential perspectives of audience members: the "stupid," the "angry feminist" (me) and then the "inside joke that I'm in on" perspective. My individual piece was called "My Shit on Blast." This poem made fun of rappers and "video hoes" in the beginning, but then it took a turn in the middle to a more serious tone and the message was basically: stop treating me like an object, because despite everything that has been done to promote equality of the sexes in the workplace and in the media, "It's phallic objects girls, not women on the rise"(last line of my poem).
Street: Who's your dream guy? (real, celeb, fictional, whatever)
NB: Eric from the Little Mermaid.
Street: How do you define "sexy"?
NB: Sexy should be interpreted as OWNING IT with a lot of eyeliner on.
Street: What's your biggest turn-off?
NB: Douchebaggity-ness.
Street: If you could have a dinner party with three famous people (dead or alive), who would it be?
NB: Jesus, Marilyn Monroe and Kate Moss.
