Miss Mandy Murphy

I was asked a simple question today, “Why do you want to be America’s Next Top Model?”

Well, Tyra–I want to redefine America’s view of beauty. Beauty isn’t wearing the latest fashions, having perfectly chiseled cheekbones and being a size zero. I want to reach out to every single young American young girl and tell her this. We need better role models on television, people with REAL personalities. That’s what I have to bring to the table. Modeling isn’t just a career for me, it’s my destiny–nothing can compare to the feeling I have behind the camera. It’s about knowing how to move your body, work your best moves, know what looks appealing, and express a emotion with that. I bring nothing “fake” to America such as botox, breast implants or a knockoff Gucci purse; I’m an all American natural born model. Hopefully me bringing that to the show would improve the industry in some way and affect many people along the way with my simple message.

-Mandy Murphy

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www.missmandymurphy.com

so many great things have been happening lately...i'll never complain again. :)

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check it out! xox

this week. i have my dude working hard on it... :) stay tuned.
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life is everchanging, i've running around like a chicken with it's head cut off and finding time to update this buzznet has me left with no cares because my website is almost done! all blogging, pictures, etc will be done through my site instead of buzznet...

steady hand, just take the wheel.


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Tonight, Saturday May 18th, my new site www.missmandymurphy.com will be pre-launching! Later on today, you'll be able to go & sign up on my mailing list. You'll be the first to know when the new site is up!

Thank you to everyone who came out last night to the Florida Music Festival 08! Last night was our Rock and Roll runway show and it was such a blast! I appreciate everyone who cheered all us on in the audience! We had a great turnout and it was definitely a very fun experience. I was chosen to be one of the two girls who walked Stainboy down the aisle at the show, it was such a honor! (View his amazing artwork at: http://www.stainboyreinel.com)
It helped so much that Jon was in the front row cheering me on the whole time too!

Here's a few pictures he got:









Thank you to the amazing makeup artists that helped with this event, they did such a great job at beautifying us all!

Here's what my makeup looked like (taken after we got home around 3am):









Going to the beach for a 3 day getaway this weekend...let's say...I'M STOKED.
Hope you all had a great weekend, thanks again for all the love & support, you guys rule. Love life and love you.

i arranged everything this afternoon for my website, www.missmandymurphy.com
i am so excited for this!

finishing randomness and completing sentences.

i reallllly love your peaches, wanna shake your treeee, lovely dovey woo hooo baby...

anyways..
today's great...can you tell? :)

just picked up the new magazine 'orlando style'. my photo is in it for that modeling contest.
vote at:
www.orlandostylemag.com/vote

going to be on the cover of a tattoo magazine, a centerfold for another magazine and 5 page spread in another...i'm getting stoked for them to be released. can't give detailssss until everything's all final.

hangggouttz tonight, stoked about that.

worked 8 hours today at the salon, purchased my ticket for Premier hair show in Orlando on June 1st and 2nd. so excited!

i have my own website coming soon! more details later.

May 18th- 11:30PM Orlando, FL ROCK AND ROLL RUNWAY SHOW. come see me walk.

bllahh...that's my updates for the day. hope everyone is having a fantastic day! if not, go buy fun dip and i promise it will be awesome!

love life and love you.

If you live in Florida, come to Orlando and see me May 17th! Hosted by Chris Kirkpatrick from NSYNC...woooop.hahah

disney world completely owned my life the other day.
jeffree was in town so he came over saturday night. hot tub, patron & johnnie walker whiskey, south beach outfits, complete ridiculousness. it's alive! came over too, i love my dudes...zach, eddie, clay and juice.
monday we all went to disney world..
let's just say...DISNEY IS AWESOME besides the long lines and rapists.

we met a lot of cute people, even some little girls from cambodia who were absolutely adorable.
some girl from new zealand was there and knew who i was from the internet...she took like 10 pictures of me and introduced me to her mom...it was the cutest ever.





zachy poo is my best frannnnd.



CASTLE MADNESS!

bahahah

BALLOOOOOONZZ

look for our names in the pirates of the carribean boat:

 

i had a lot to unpack after our trip;



jeffree and i were obsessed with rock candy the entire time. major sweet toofs.





i love miss kitty...she makes me want to cuddle 24/7.

amberly and morgan came over the other night for am's birthday. those two crack me up and we always seem to have a really damn good time.
i'm so glad cory and jesse live across the street from jon and i, it always calls for the best hang sessions everyday.

i revised my plan for my book that i'm writing last night. talked with a few people and my mind kept changing about ideas.
so i decided finally what i want it to be like and i am SO STOKED. it's fucking happening, you watch.

i left post it notes for jon all over our bedroom the other day. about a 100 little notes reminding him that i love him. he found them when he came home from work and was so stoked.

i want to go out to dinner tonight, trying to decide where...somewhere exciting and yummy please & thank you.

 i have some amazing friends...
bud, booze, dancing consumed our past few nights..









jon is finally all moved in. we've been trying to do everything we can to make him an official florida resident.
so many good metal shows are coming to orlando soon and that totally makes me stoked.
i can't believe april is almost over...



420 was a major success..i can't go into too many details because people love causing scenes for me.



swimming is one of the most relaxing things in this entire world. thank god for florida's bright sunshine and warm heat because i love floating around in my gold bikini not having a care in the world.

i'm writing a book...
it's going to be great.

modeling career soon to take an amazing launch...
i am pondering whether i should go to college classes this summer.
i'm over half way done with my AA degree, so i'd hate to drop out of college now and have nothing.
i suppose i should suck it up and finish so i have that degree to show.

i am so stumped on whether to dye my hair all platinum or not. i'm so afraid going from black to platinum will totally fry the underneath of my hair.
helllllllllllllllp.

i have had the absolute busiest week!
jon moved to FL tuesday night, everything has been great living together so far, it's so funny how all my stuff takes uyp the closet and how he has like one small area.
i have wayyyyyyy too many clothes and shoes ahhhh.
monday night-went to crush, danced my booty off, had like 6 dudes to ask to take pictures with me bahahah.
tuesday night-picked jon up from his bus.
wednesday-major chill time with my babe.
- impending doom, arsonists get all the girls, catalepsy show last night. it was awesome, hung out in all the vans and just drank beers and smoked way too much.
met new people and actually got a job offer at the show.
today, i woke up dead at 7am, had to work at the salon for a few hours.
then joey, cory, brandon and robbie came over and we attempted to have a pool party, but the pool was ICE COLD!

so excited for my near future plans, lots of exciting things in the works!


ain't nobody taking me dowwwn
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TIME TO RULE ZE WORRRRRRRRRRRLD!

this week has completely flown by so fast! i can't even remember the last time i updated without looking, but i feel like it's been days.

went shopping today, it consisted of me buying 2 pairs of awesome heels, tons of bangles and bracelets, pink straightleg jeans, cute lingerie from victoria's secret, 2 bathing suits, and a few more little things.
i got my heatherette dress today!! i can't wait for the heatherette shoot, should be awesome!

got a few new projects coming up, modeling a few more band's merch, i am going to be in this awesome magazine from milan, going to be in a volkswagon ad, tons of phone meetings, a runway show in may, working as a model at a booth show, selling merch for a couple bands, etc etc etc.

to top everything off, the boyfriend is coming home in a few days! jon and i will be living together permanantly here in just a few days. since dead to fall broke up, he's been doing so great...he's coping well with it and i'm so proud of how strong he's been. he already has a job here in FL, him and i will be roadtripping every weekend!

we're most likely moving into a new apartment within the next couple months, i can't wait. i want to color each wall a different color and just be totally insane.

icecream is completely ruining my life. i have this new found obsession and i just can't get enough of strawberry icecream mixed with vanilla and tonnnnssssssss of hershey's syrup on top!

shoot tomorrow, call time isn't til 12, woo! working with a new photographer from ocala, fl, he traveled up my way to work together, should be fun!



this girl has such a cute style of drawing:




i love when people make cute stuff and give it to me. it's pretty damn inspiring.

silentlyconceal made this:



if you ever make anything with my pictures i always love seeing them, so keep em coming!

i'm going to have a tea party in my bubble bath...
love life & love you.

i wanted to write this from the start, just never knew the words to say.
i’m currently 20 years old and have been in three meaningful relationships.
i’m writing this because i get so many emails from girls asking about my past relationships and my present relationship, curious to know more.
i’m not here to sugar coat or hide anything.
i’m not here to call anyone out or name names.
i’m simply writing this for rumors to be cleared up, for everyone to get a little insight of things i’ve been a part of, and to warn girls of men who will suck the living hell out of you.

i’ll start off by mentioning my first boyfriend,
we started dating when i was in middle school, continued dating for 4 and a half years...on and off.
by far, one of the most intense learning experiences of my life.
started off by us not knowing eachother, jumping into things we just weren’t ready for, and ending with my heart completely broken. to this day, i have no hard feelings against the dude, we were young and silly...

i hate even talking about the subject but must mention my second boyfriend,
where to even start?
by far the most insane year and a half of my life.
completely destructive, abusive and the worst self torment i ever put myself through.
i should have gotten the hint from early warning signs, but i stayed...being as naive as i was.
mistakes were made, some lies were told, but nothing i did amounted to the things he’s done to me.
fights with him were the most psychotic behavior i had ever seen and ever want to see.
no one deserves to be a part of what we put ourselves through. him throwing a temper tantrum and stomping on the hood of my car like a 5 year old child was one of the worst days of my life, only to continue with me forgiving him, destroying more of my property, breaking my sidekick phone completely in half, breaking it into pieces and stomping on it like an elephant, posting pictures on the internet that were taken and given to him in trust, etc....
and still to this day, he still lurks my page and tries to destory my life. must suck to be so miserable and realize the amazingness that you lost, huh?
i’m just so grateful i never did marry him, we were engaged for less than a month and yes...i was nice enough to give back the diamond ring.
i probably wouldn’t be here today if i’d have stayed with him.

third and current boyfriend,
three words: most amazing ever.
i’ve never felt like such a princess in my life.
i’ve never been so spoiled with love.
never before have i 100% fully trusted a man and gotten the exact same in return.
ha, never before have i ever dated a true man.
being he’s 6 and a half years older than me helps a lot, we are basically on the same maturity level, looking for the same things in life and have the strongest connection ever.
we’ve been together for a little over 7 months and still have yet to get in one single fight.
we have the most chill, perfect relationship ever and i’m completly confident that nothing could change that.
he actually cares about my wellbeing, always looking out for me and has never let me down.
he listens to me when i talk, smiles at everything i do and always reminds me of how much he cares.
he has shown me things i’ve never seen before and made me feel things i never knew my heart could feel.
never once has he hurt me, never once has he disrespected me, and never once has he doubted me.
he supports me and everything i do, always looking to lend a helping hand.
he’s my definite true hero and i forever will love this man.

once again, i didn’t write this to bash anyone, only to help young girls out there that may be in a destructive relationship.
girls: DON’T SETTLE FOR ANYTHING LESS THAN EVERYTHING.
you’re given ONE life, don’t just settle for an ’okay dude’, settle for the PERFECT man.
you may have already found him, you may have already met him and just don’t know it yet, you may meet him in a month or 5 years from now, but i am here to promise you that you will find it...and once you do, you’ll know it.

you don’t need a man to feel confident, to feel like you’re worth something.
you have a purpose here and i guarantee it’s not to please some dude.
make yourself completely happy, and mr. right will come knocking on your door (or you may go knocking on his!) sooner or later.

and to any dude out there whose heart i may have broken, i am sorry.
and to any dude that has completely broken my heart, don’t be sorry.
..it has all happened for a reason.
it happened because we just weren’t meant to be, something just wasn’t right. and you too will find that perfect woman.

good luck to all of you and your current/future relationships.

i just posted a blog the other day about asking people to come hang out with me on tour with dead to fall...
but i regret to inform you all that dead to fall is no longer a band.

this decision was made mostly by the guitarist violently quitting the band during the beginning of their tour, supermassive fist. it left all the guys in complete, shock. my boyfriend jon, the lead singer, was the only original member from the beginning so i think it’s taken a toll mostly on him. he created this band, he’s what this band stood for, hell...the band has tshirts with his face on them and i’ve seen a roomfull of kids wearing them.
but unfortunately, what happened...happened. and it happened for a reason. he’s now able to start a life with me, without a life on the road being anywhere involved. we can now do things that most couples take for granted.

it’s closed doors for us, but opened new, exciting doors for us as well.

be on the lookout for future projects the members may be apart of.

and to anyone that’s ever been a fan, let the band sleep on the floor, smoked them out...well i thank you for making the past 7 years of my boyfriend’s life awesome.

i'm completely exhausted from today's photoshoot, but it was SO worth it.

my call time was 8am, had to be in cocoa beach at 10am to start shooting.


hassan and i had so much fun, we shot for hours and got so many different looks in.
also did my photoshoot for alumni clothing co.


i got screamed at by people off their balcony, telling me to "take it off!" and "bend down a little more!"
it was completely insane..
doing shoots in a public place always ends up with me somehow getting harrassed...but as long as they don't touch...i'm okay.
:)

should be getting some shots later tonight.

finally back in town..gonna eat chilis for dinner & hang out sesh with my lovelys later.
i bought a new digital camera yesterday! it's 10MP and sooo nice! WOO

work tomorrow, photoshoot for adorevintage afterwards.


hope you all had a lovely weekend!
i have new pictures up, check em out & let me know how you like em.
;)
xo


ean

-very hectic past week, but ya gotta love being busy!
i'd definitely rather be doing everything than doing nothing.

-got my package in the mail from alumni clothing company. (http://www.myspace.com/jimiturco) i scheduled a photoshoot on sunday to shoot all the clothes, i'm pretty stoked...they're all so cute. 6 shirts...AND panties!
-working a lot more, trying to make that $$...
most likely visiting CA this summer for a couple weeks, still working out my schedule for while i'm there to make sure i have stuff going on everyday i'm there to make my visit worthwhile.
-i'm even wondering if i should roadtrip out there with friends...see the country on the way...wooo.




boyfriend will be back in less than 2 weeks...thank god...i miss him tons.

photoshoot yesterday at the fair. went really well, i posted one picture...i'll post more when i get them!
i am shooting with headhunter studio again this weekend, i love working with hassan, he always makes my shoot so worthwhile.
(headhunterstudio.com)

shooting for www.adorevintage.com next week as well as www.evilneedles.com, should be fun, i love working with both the owners...great people. also working with a few new photographers next week that i've never worked with before...it's always exciting!

i feel like i'm missing so much...leaving out a ton of important details...ah well.

i bought altered states yesterday...can't wait to watch it later!



larry the cable guy is damn hilarious...i really need to meet that guy asap.



www.xxmelissamarie.buzznet.com made this banner for me today, she's such a sweetie!




i am going to go indulge in a SPAZZ smoothie from planet smoothie.

//what's your favorite smoothie?

flicking through channels, maury povich caught my attention.
on the commercial break, they announced that maury's website had a messageboard.
of course, my friend and i had to check it out to see what kind of weirdos hangout on a maury povich forum..

we found this post...and i had to share it with you all.

shits and giiiigggles.



i feel bad for the poor guy..

i keep having the most random thoughts popping in my head all the time. constant little bits of creativity that flow straight into inspiration.
i talked to my dad tonight for what seems like hours about me modeling, traveling, my goals and aspirations in life and for once in my life, i felt like he was totally stoked and completely supportive of my lifestyle. ++definitely a good feeling.

i guess i should mention the events that occured this past weekend:
(some good, some bad, some sexy, some sassy)
-getaway to the beach with jon.
-long drives with singalongs.
-filthy and gorgeous on repeat.
-grapefruit, raspberry, cranberry, rum homemade cocktails by mandy.
-"special" brownies.
-fluffy pillows, sunburns and a gold bikni.
-tripping in front of everyone at the pool deck.
-having a falling out with a couple close friends. (definitely not a good event.)
-being lovey dovey with the boyfriend before he left for tour.

jon left last night, i dropped him off at his bus around 10pm, drove home real bummed out, worked on my look book and fell asleep with a marker in my hand.

chocolate icecream rules my life.


here are some teasers from my most recent photoshoots:



COMING SOON!

a lot of questions been asking lately as to who my favorite band was...i'll name you one of them...



www.myspace.com/opeth



//what is your favorite band(s)?