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The thing is Ashley had so many chances to overcome her confidence issues and handle it differently than crying with whomever she perceived was picking on her. Even after winning the whole deal instead of boosting her confidence she went right back to being a victim from the challenge in the reunion. When will she learn? Good for her that she won, but the swinging from being smug to victim is too much. I wished Tim would have asked Candice if she regretted changing her collection and whether she would have won if she stuck to it. Also Tim seemed to be back pedaling with Swapnil. Swapnil had a terrible strategy and the minute he said he was coasting I knew it was over, but Tim went for him more than anyone in previous seasons.

I agree with the construction observations, and what is even stranger is that the way they edited the show, the camera highlighted these during the runway show as if to tell the viewer look closer at these problems. This makes the judges not pointing these flaws out even less credible and their decision to award Ashley confusing.

I had to laugh when Alyssa Milano had a look of doing some serious critiquing during the runway show. What does Who's The Boss have to do with Fashion. I'm still wondering about the credibility of the contest. Shouldn't they all have done plus size shows to make it more fair and avoid the awarding the line that was different from the outset. Or perhaps one of the contestants should have showed up with a couple of outstanding plus size look to throw things into a tizzy. I'm surprised all of the contestants didn't realize it's part of the show for the judges to dog pile on them right before the show and see if they can take the pressure. The only thing is the mind games worked on Candice and I feel that Ashley was a bit smug, meaning she is faking her confidence issues.. In fact, I thought she had lost because she was being so smug and there was going to be a gotcha moment (as she was even smiling by saying that Edmond didn't have it together the day before the show). Candice was also being smug all season so I think it was a bit of a karmic payback for her and her obvious overlooking Ashley during group challenges.. The way they tortured Kelly at the end, who really was the only one who really had a strong point of view was mean. Her reaction was truly heartbreaking and I feel she would have the biggest 'fall' from the lost as she would have had the biggest 'rise' from the win. She is strong enough and has a good attitude that with time she will recover and go on to do well. This show is no longer really a competition. It seemed almost as if Ashley was ushered along and kept on just to win because of the 'plus size' differentiator. This is insulting to the viewers and unfair to the contestants who all go there working hard to fulfill a dream.