NAIMA MORA
Though she's no longer signed with Ford — ''I was just like another face on their board,'' she says — the Cycle 4 winner pays the bills modeling (magazine covers include Cover and Vicious) and was testing the market in Miami when we caught up with her. At home in New York City, she's also the lead singer and harmonica player for the progressive rock band Chewing Pics (pictured top), which will self-release an EP next month. ''My boyfriend, who I live with, is the drummer. He's like, 'Oh, you have a really good voice, you should sing some songs for me.' I'm like, 'Sure, you know, okay, whatever!'''
A MODEL WHO DOESN'T WANT TO ACT? ''That's what everyone was telling me to do. And I tried it out — I went to this really good acting school, and I got to audition with some really cool people. I got to audition with Quentin Tarantino personally. But it didn't take, you know. And that's okay.'' —Reported by Tanner Stransky
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