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NATASHA GALKINA

The Cycle 8 runner-up, who's graced the cover of DC and Houston magazines, recently returned from a three-month trip to Europe. She did so much modeling in Milan and Athens (including editorial shoots for Cosmo, Lucky, Elle, and the Greek magazine Madame Figaro, pictured) that the Dallas-based Russian beauty decided to take a little break. ''I feel as though I can't really sit around without doing anything,'' she says, ''and I decided to take some classes. Because I work full time as a model and am a full-time mom, I cannot just go and enroll in university and be a full-time student. So I enroll when I can. It's fast-track, so I'm gonna go back to New York in a couple of weeks — hopefully it will get warmer.''