She Had It

Lena Gercke won Germany’s Next Top Model and it felt like the right call. I’d been watching that season and she was my favorite—there was something easier about her than the rest of the contestants, less of that desperate reaching for it. When Heidi announced her name, I actually felt good about it, not in some invested-in-reality-TV way, but like I genuinely wanted this one person to get the thing she was going for. I never really tracked where she went after, but that moment was enough.