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The One Question Tyra Banks Refused to Answer in the America’s Next Top Model Documentary

The One Question Tyra Banks Refused to Answer in the America’s Next Top Model Documentary

Published by Sam Flores

“We live in an era in which everybody’s history is narrowed down to two lines in someone’s aggressive [internet] comments,” Sivan tells Vanity Fair. “People tweet about you and it’s just remembering them as the worst thing they ever did. And Tyra did want to come and say, hey, there’s more to me than just, ‘I was rooting for you.’” Created by Banks and developed by TV producer Ken Mok (who also appears in the doc), as well as Black-ish creator Kenya Barris, America’s Next Top Model ran on various networks for 24 seasons—or “cycles,” as they were called on the show—from 2003 to 2018. Each cycle followed a new crop of aspiring models from across the US who lived together, competed in outlandish challenges, and faced a weekly elimination based on their performance and physical appearance. The eventual winner was named “America’s Next Top Model” and awarded a spread in a fashion magazine, plus contracts with a major brand and a modeling agency. Contestants were mentored by creative director Jay Manuel, runway coach J. …

America’s Next Top Model Netflix documentary is deeply uncomfortable viewing — because we’ve seen it all before

America’s Next Top Model Netflix documentary is deeply uncomfortable viewing — because we’ve seen it all before

Published by Sam Flores

The photoshoots become increasingly problematic — the women pose as homeless people, crime scene corpses, and infamously ‘switch ethnicities’ (the documentary reminds us that this happened on two separate occasions). But the casting makes matters worse; one contestant whose mother was a victim of gun crime, as producers were aware, is made to pose as if she has been shot in the head. Another, who is repeatedly told she is overweight, must depict the sin of gluttony, then pose as an elephant. Source link

Netflix’s America’s Next Top Model Documentary: The 7 Biggest Shocks

Netflix’s America’s Next Top Model Documentary: The 7 Biggest Shocks

Published by Daniella Wilson

We were rooting for you, Reality Check, we were all rooting for you! But alas, Netflix‘s documentary about the rise and fall of America’s Next Top Model is a rather grueling and self-serious affair which attempts to turn the reality hit that ran for 24 seasons into a cultural war crime. Across three episodes, Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model presents many of the well-known controversies surrounding the reality hit and interviews the show’s oft-apologetic producers and coaches — including Tyra Banks. As each “welp, that sure didn’t age well” moment is replayed, a Greek chorus of anonymous TikTokers is shown scolding from the sidelines trying to make the case that Top Model was really, really bad — lest viewers make up their own minds about any of it (one claims a single Top Model clip gave her an eating disorder which lasted decades). That said, there’s plenty about the series — which ran from 2003 to 2018 — that is very cringeworthy, represents major lapses of judgment and would never make it on …