Laura Kirkpatrick

About

Model and entrepreneur best known for being the runner-up of Cycle 13 on The CW's America's Next Top Model. She was also a contestant on Cycle 17. She designs urban T-shirts for her company Grumbages.

Before Fame

She was 19 years old when she joined the show and was an art major at Eastern Kentucky University. She missed her final exams because of America's Next Top Model and effectively never finished her freshman year.

Trivia

She is only five feet and seven inches tall, which is technically too short for a professional model. She participated in cycle 13, because it was their "Petite Edition" of the show, where they were looking exclusively for women who were five feet and seven inches tall.

Family Life

She grew up working on her family's farm along with her parents, Greg Kirkpatrick and Jodie Hill Jones, her two younger sisters, Hannah and Jarah, and her younger brother called Jeremy. She is of Christian faith.

Associated With

Former America's Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker, told her to lose her Kentucky accent because he said that that would come across as unprofessional in the modeling world. She tried going without it for a while but refused to after a while, since she didn't feel like herself without it.