The 18-year-old dorky girl from Louisville and University of Colorado sophomore Nicole Fox is America's Next Top Model cycle 13 as Tyra Banks and a panel of judges choses Nicole to become the first petite-cycle winner. At 5-foot-7-inches tall, Nicole is one of the shortest champs in ANTM history.

Nicole will receive a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl Cosmetics, a representation contract with Wilhelmina Models and will be on the cover of Seventeen Magazine along with a six-page spread.

“I’m a dork and I’m America’s Next Top Model!” the beauty from Louisville, Colo. gushed after her win, E! Online reported. “I had to learn to embarrass myself—and to speak, which was a struggle,” she said. “Sometimes I didn’t think I was going to survive the journey. Like, I remember during casting week I went home and I cried because I was like, ‘What have I gotten myself into? I can’t deal with this.’”

But the judges saw through that and saw her potential as a high fashion model.