Photo credit: Jim DeYonker/The CW©The CW Network, LLC.All Rights Reserved By Pamela Edwards The CW Network's hit series "America's Next Top Model" kicks off season 13 Wednesday, September 9 with a two- hour premiere from 8- 10 pm with one of Columbia's own vying to become this year's "America's Top Model."

This season the series breaks the mold by offering women 5'7" and under (below the industry height standard) the chance to become America's Next Top Model. Fourteen hopefuls from across the country are being given the chance to prove they have what it takes including 21- year - old, 5'7" Columbia native, Bianca.

Bianca attended Dreher High School. She says, "Since high school, people have always said I should audition. I never did but decided to do it this year because I knew that it would further my modeling career for great networking and criticism and most of all for a priceless experience."

Bianca originally auditioned in Washington, DC, at the Renaissance Hotel. She says the line was extremely long; there were many cuts, but she made the DC cut over thousands of girls, then went on to make the cut over thousands in the entire U.S.

America's Next Top Model airs Wednesdays, 8- 9 pm on The CW.