The name Dani Evans might sound familiar to you, and it’s because she’s the season 6 winner of America’s Next Top Model, the show in which Tyra Banks turns regular girls with pretty ugly faces (not our term, but hers) into super models. Their unique beauty and beautiful look is what attracts Banks to many of these girls and young women, and we can say with certainty that she’s not wrong when she says that these girls that might not necessarily look like supermodels in real life really do transform in front of the camera. Dani Evans is a former ANTM champ, but it’s almost a decade later that she’s making headlines even bigger than the ones she made when she first entered the business and won her season of the hit reality show. The beautiful African American model has been accused of bleaching her skin to become lighter, and she’s hitting back hard. So we thought we’d learn a little bit more about Evans and share some little-known facts about the model with her fans.

The Judges Hated her Accent

There was a time during her season that her very heavy southern accent was a problem for judges who thought she’d never book a CoverGirl campaign, so they asked her to work with a vocalist to help tone down her accent and improve her speech.

But She’s One of the Few Top Models to have her CoverGirl Contract Renewed

Despite the fact that the judges her season did not believe her accent would ever allow her to book a job with CoverGirl, she’s one of the very small group of ANTM winners to actually have her contract with the beauty company renewed.

She Works…A Lot

Despite the fact that we think we haven’t heard much from her in the past decade, she’s been busy. She’s done campaigns and runway shows and magazine spreads and so much work that she’s never not busy.

She’s Modeled for Victoria’s Secret

That’s right; she’s a total success. We all know that working for Victoria’s Secret is a thing of beauty (pun intended) and that you really do become quite famous when you work with the Angels.

Net Worth

In just about a decade, Dani Evans has managed to accumulate a net worth of approximately $500 thousand. It’s not a bad net worth for a model who won a reality show to get her career started.

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