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A BEAUTIFUL former America's Next Top Model contestant's body has been found brutally beaten and burned, just weeks before she was due to give birth.
Sherell Nicole Baldwin was pregnant with a little girl when her burning body was found by shocked Houston firefighters who turned up to extinguish a blaze.
An autopsy also revealed the 24-year-old, who was in her third trimester had been viciously beaten before she was set on fire.
Baldwin, who had left her Huntsville, TX home to visit a friend, hit fame when she when she won a competition to be one of the top three girls to audition for America's Next Top Model.
Despite not making the cut, she continued to harbor catwalk ambitions, while studying at college, until her pregnancy put her modelling career on hold.