From joystiq.com:

Heather Kuzmich, a top-five finalist from Cycle 9 of America’s Next Top Model, will soon be modeling something other than clothes: video game characters. Kuzmich, who overcame  the social hurdles of Asperger’s Syndrome (a mild form of Autism) to appear on the show, has enrolled in a video game art design program at the Illinois Institute of Art.

Interviewed on the blog of Voodoo PC founder, Rahul Sood, Kuzmich said, "To be honest, I always wanted to do something that included art and creating stuff with my hands. At first I wanted to get into costume design, but that soon changed to game design, especially since I frigging love games and love doing weird designs for characters."

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