Anne Hydock has been on an emotional roller coaster since the start of  “Make Me a Supermodel.”But on the eve of knowing whether her daughter stays or goes on the Bravo reality series, the mother of contestant Jacki Hydock has really been on pins and needles this week.

“As a parent, it’s a very helpless feeling, not knowing her fate,” she said.

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The North Olmsted woman talked Wednesday about her daughter’s experiences so far on the 12-week-long series.

At the beginning of today’s 10 p.m. episode, viewers will know whether Jacki Hydock still has a shot at a $100,000 prize and a New York City modeling contract, or gets sent packing.

The 21-year-old waitress and one-time Cleveland model was among three competing models whose fate will be decided by a nationwide phone-in poll of viewers.

Two of the three will remain in the competition while the third will be voted off the show.

An events planner for a major real estate firm, Anne Hydock said she hasn’t talked with her daughter since she was chosen for the series, which sees the aspiring models housed in a posh New York brownstone for the duration of the show.

“It’s been very hard. My contact with her has been limited. I  thought she would be able to make phone calls,” her mother said.

When Jacki Hydock was permitted one phone call after the first three weeks, according to her mother, romance won out over family ties. That call went to her daughter’s boyfriend.

“All reality shows work that way due to their confidentiality,” Anne Hydock said. “They don’t want anything to leak out before shows air, and they don’t want families or loved ones distracting contestants and creating more drama.”

Still, Anne Hydock said she was a bit blue, not knowing whether Jacki received the stuffed animal and cards her mother mailed her for Valentine’s Day.

Despite the judges’ past periodic criticisms of Hydock for what they deemed a lack of all-out effort — which she conceded with in her online diary entries for the series —  her mother feels Jacki Hydock has done consistently well in each week’s episode.

“Jacki has mentioned on her diary blog for the show that there were at least two occasions where she could have stepped it up … but as a viewer, she looks good to me,” said her mother, who praised her daughter’s work ethic. “She’s always worked two jobs since the age of 16. She’s been saving money for a modeling career ever since.”

Anne Hydock finds it rather humorous that so many men she knows have been tuned into a show that would not seem to be typical “guy” fare.

“I told them, ‘None of you guys normally watch this,’ but a lot of men I work with have actually been watching,” she said.

“Some of them know Jacki from bring-your-child-to-work-day, or they know me.”

Jacki’s dad, from whom her mother is divorced, has been following his daughter’s TV adventures from his Rochester, N.Y., home.

Mom understands how many people could get a rather skewed view of the modeling industry, what with contestants posing in the buff on one episode, and inside a huge tank of water with a python for another photo shoot.

“I’m sure a lot of the models did not want to do a lot of those challenges. They’re given a part to play, and they have to make it work,” she said.

Whatever happens tonight, Anne Hydock is cool with it.

“I’m fine with it either way. I’m the kind of person who looks at life as the glass is half full.”

Contact Steve Fogarty at 329-7146 or sfogarty@chroniclet.com.

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