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TAR 16: Brent Horne and Caite Upton--Dating Models
Theo:
Surprisingly, Brent & Caite is my 2nd favorite team in season 16 after Steve & Allie :)
Plaidmoon:
Caite Upton reveals how bad things got and how depressed she became after her Miss USA interview video went viral. I'm glad she had her friends and family to help her through those times. I always sympathized with her because I remember the time I was running for a student body office in high school. When the time came to give a speech in from of the student body, my mind went completely blank and I couldn't remember any of the things I intended to say. I remember babbling a few things and then leading some cheers and then slinking away from the microphone. Other than some teasing for a few days, I got off lightly. She had the misfortune to have her mind blank out in front of millions of people. Frankly, I was impressed with how smart she was during her appearance on TAR 16. A moment or two of confusion can happen to anyone and doesn't make them stupid. I'm glad she has gotten past this and appears to be in a good place in her life.
http://nymag.com/following/2015/12/10-viral-sensations-on-life-after-internet-fame.html
Caite Upton: Miss South Carolina Teen USA
Year of viral fame: 2007.
The video: Upton, a Miss Teen USA contestant, badly fumbles a pageant question about American education.
Views: 63 million.
Since then: Moved to Los Angeles; appeared on ‘The Amazing Race’ and MTV’s ‘Ridiculousness,’ on the golf network Back9, and in more than a dozen commercials.
I lost a lot of close friends over it — people I’d been friends with since I was 10, people I grew up playing soccer with. One group of girls took me to this party at the University of South Carolina, and I walk in, and the entire USC baseball team surrounded me and bashed me with the harshest, meanest comments I had ever heard. And somebody once put a letter in my parents’ mailbox about how my body was going to be eaten alive by ants and burned in a freak fire. And then it said, in all caps, GO DIE CAITE UPTON, GO DIE FOR YOUR STUPIDITY. That’s the kind of stuff people would say to me for two years.
I definitely went through a period where I was very, very depressed. But I never let anybody see that stuff, except for people I could trust. I had some very dark moments where I thought about committing suicide. The fact that I have such an amazing family and friends, it really, really helped. [Begins to tear up] Sorry, it’s just really emotional. This is the first time I’ve actually been able to talk about it. It was awful, and it was every single day for a good two years. I’ve only spoken to my fiancé about how I felt in those moments truthfully, and my best friend. And, recently, my mom. But, like, my dad doesn’t even know yet.
The past few years, going brunette, I have not had any recognition for the Miss Teen USA Pageant at all. But I also get recognized for having a similar name to Kate Upton. So I’ll go into my auditions and be like, “Yes, yes, I know — I’m the other one.”
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