Raelia Lewis

g   Raelia Lewis
Biographical
Gender:	Female
Born:	March 22, 1992
Age:	30
Home:	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Height:	6 ft 0.5 in (1.84 m)
Friends:	Will Jardell
Feuds:	Mirjana Puhar Romeo Tostado
Cycle 21
Place:	7th/14th
Debut:	The Boyz R Back
Last:	The Guy Who Parties Too Hard

Raelia Lewis was a contestant on cycle 21 of ANTM in 2014. She was the ninth model eliminated and placed seventh overall.

Early Life

Raelia was scouted at fifteen years old, and was first signed to Icon Models. She put modeling on hold to focus on her studies at Parkway Center City High School. In 2009, at eighteen years old and working on an associate's degree in mass communications at Philadelphia Community College, she took it up again. She auditioned for the show three times, and also tried out for "The Face".

ANTM

Since the beginning of the cycle, Raelia struggled with her poor speech skills, and had to be subtitled in most of the early episodes. She was the eleventh model called to the final cast. In episode three, she struggled at the wet & wild photoshoot because it triggered a childhood memory of her drowning.

In episode five, she fell on her knees at the stilts runway. This caused her to have one of the lowest challenge scores, but she redeemed herself at the Spider Byte commercial, with Tyra saying it was her favorite of the bunch. In episode seven, she was the first person who Will told about Denzel's homophobia. She immediately confronted Denzel about it. Later, she overheard Mirjana talking smack about her at the frostbitten photoshoot, and the two yelled at each other in the limo ride home. She was in the bottom two, but had a higher score than Kari.

In episode nine, she booked two shows in the go-see challenge, but accidentally stopped on the middle of the runway during the actual show. Later, she and Will had the best pair photo at the Mitch Stone campaign shoot, and they would be featured on the Mitch Stone website. In episode ten however, she was too scared during the slaughterhouse challenge, and yet again had one of the lowest challenge scores. She had a lack of energy at the HIV awareness shoot, but was saved over Mirjana in the bottom two.

When the models are taken to South Korea, she won the K-Pop dancing challenge, but was seen as too sexy at the MCM bag photoshoot. Her poor photo landed her yet another bottom two placement, this time with Comeback Series winner Chantelle. She was eliminated with a 0.4 point difference.

Call-Out Order

Raelia	Episodes
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	11th	11th	4th	2nd	3rd	9th	7th	2nd	7th	Eliminated

Post-Show

After the show, Raelia was signed to EMG Models New York, Click Models Philly, Wilhelmina Chicago, Yani Models, Base Model Agency and Heffner Management. She had a Cover and Spread in Ellements, and was in Best Models, shuString, Fluff, Arsenic, TFG Club, Philadelphia Daily News, Millenaissance, Beauty Times, and Essence in Summer 2016. She has been in campaigns for Sensationnel Hair, Indique Hair, Pick n Play Clothing, CUUP bras, Pepsi, Mizani, Really Cellulite and Dunkin' Donuts.

In 2016, she released a self-help book titled "Trust Your Journey: Tools For Making Your Dreams". She has since founded a jewelry line called Accessorized, and a resort wear line called Waveswim.

Trivia

• Raelia is the second model from Philadelphia to compete. She is after Cory Hindorff.

Gallery

Neon Runway Selfie

Promo

Wet & Wild

Optical Illusions

Makeover

Spider Byte Commercial

Hair Flipping

Frostbitten

Corybot

Mitch Stone Campaign (Pairs)

Mitch Stone Campaign (Solo)

HIV Awareness

MCM Bags

Jinny Kim Shoes

Elvis Presley & Marilyn Monroe

Tyra Beauty

Follow Raelia

• Raelia's Official Website
• Raelia's Facebook
• Raelia's Instagram
• Raelia's MySpace
• Raelia's Twitter