For most people, the camera adds 10 pounds.

For Ylenia Aurucci, the latest girl booted from Canada’s Next Top Model, it adds 10 years.

“The comment (from the judges) of me looking old — I could totally see that in my picture. So, after I saw how the photo turned out, I had a feeling I was going home,” says Aurucci, a Vancouver actor who was just 23 when the reality series was filmed.

“It’s strange. Even myself, I thought I appeared older on TV and in the pictures, but in person, people are usually right on with my age.”

While Aurucci has always dreamed of becoming a model, her life circumstances have made it difficult for her to pursue.

As a teenager, her parents moved the family to Africa where, she says, it was next to impossible to break into the industry.

“When I saw the commercial (for Canada’s Next Top Model), I just thought this was a great chance to try it out,” she says, adding the experience was different than she anticipated.

“Just having the cameras following you around everywhere and sharing the house with nine girls and the pressure of the competition, it was very hard.”

Aurucci says she plans on pursuing a career in modelling and acting when she moves to Toronto next month.

Her elimination means four girls are now left in the running to become Canada’s Next Top Model.

The show airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on Citytv.