Do Project Runway Contestants End Up In the Projects?

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What does all the fame and fortune of being a Project Runway fave bring you? Three bucks and a cup of coffee. Season 3 winner Jeffrey Sebelia, 37, says he's flat broke and resigned to designing sl*tty costumes for Paula Abdul's live-action (and we're guessing straight-to-video) version of the Bratz dolls franchise. Despite winning $100,000 as the show's top designer, Sebelia had trouble scrounging up $3 to pay a parking attendant and said, "Most of the companies I’d like to be involved with really couldn’t give a s**t that I was on TV." Meanwhile Season 3 finalist Michael Knight has been reduced to designing T-shirts for Starbucks (free of charge, while supplies last!). On the bright side, if things ever get really bad, the pair could always design some nifty hats for passers-by to throw quarters into.