Jess catches up with the first openly gay contestant on America’s Next Top Model, fellow New Yorker Kim Stolz. Kim Stolz was one of the most recognizable faces in the NYC gay scene in the mid-‘00s after a bet among college friends sent her auditioning for (and being cast on) the Tyra Banks show in Cycle 5. Kim later became an MTV News correspondent where she worked alongside John Norris & Kurt Loder and shares about Taylor Swift, Stevie Nicks, Sarah Jessica Parker and Zach Braff. Kim Stolz also opened the SoHo lesbian bar "The Dalloway" w/ reality star Amanda Leigh Dunn (High Society & The Real L Word) and shares some Vanderpump Rules-esque stories about running The Dalloway.

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