(Ages stated are at the time of filming) The fourteen contestants were flown to Montego Bay for their first photo shoot, in which they modeled bikinis on a coral reef.

The judging session saw Amanda, Nicole, Yaya, Eva, and Toccara give the best photos while Julie becomes the third contestant eliminated from the competition.

The judging session saw Ann, Nicole, Norelle, and Toccara gave the best photos while Kristi becomes the fourth contestant eliminated from the competition.

For the week's challenge, the ten remaining contestants posed as mannequins in a La Perla store window.

For the week's challenge, the nine remaining contestants climbed fourteen flights of stairs, doing a photo shoot at the top.

The judging session saw Nicole, Amanda, and Eva gave the best photos while Kelle becomes the sixth contestant eliminated from the competition.

The stylist failed to provide adequate clothing options for Toccara, whom she taunted and mistreated as a plus size model.

The judging session saw Eva, Ann, and Norelle gave the best photos while Cassie becomes the seventh contestant eliminated from the competition.

Amanda gave the best photo, while Ann becomes the eleventh contestant eliminated from the competition in her fifth collective bottom two appearance.

The top three contestants, Amanda Swafford, Eva Pigford, and Yaya DaCosta shot an ad campaign for CoverGirl.

In a 2020 Instagram livestream with J. Alexander, Jay Manuel admitted that the rumours that the contestants were detained in Japan upon arriving in Tokyo were “100% true”.

Luckily, before they could be detained, production “put them back on a plane, flew them to Guam ... for two days ... and from there the girls got proper visas to enter the country”.

J. Alexander also revealed that he was meant to meet the girls at the airport and was left waiting for them for hours because he hadn’t been told what was happening.

This left him “mad, angry ... furious” because production “completely forgot” about him and he had travelled for “two hours” from Tokyo to the airport to meet them.

Due to CoverGirl's partnership with ANTM as of Cycle 3, they had a bigger budget and so Manuel was able to produce a “really elaborate commercial which was what the girls were supposed to shoot when they landed in Tokyo”.

He described how he built a “huge set” that took a “week to build” and a got a “famous director to shoot it” but once the girls were sent to Guam, production “tore it all down”.