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Tyra Banks is aware of criticisms around her long -term reality show Next Top Model AmericaBut he refuses to harm his inheritance.
When receiving the first luminarical reflector on Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards on Thursday, February 27, Banks, 51, Aparted Antm And his early pressure on the variety on the screen in the middle of the news about toxicity on the scene.
“More than 20 years ago I created a TV show called.” Next Top Model America“Banks started. “And you do not know how hard we tried to bring the diversity of this TV show at a time when it did not exist; showing different beauties at a time when the world was like,” What? I was glad, “Why can a girl from a trailer become a supermodel, but a girl who chillin in the park in the hood can’t?” And we fought and fought and we did it.
She continued, “Did we get it right? Hell not. I said some stupid S— but I refuse to make my inheritance about some things connected together on the Internet when there were 24 cycles of change of the world. We’re all developing. We all improve together. And I’m so excited that I am and so many of us opened the door so others could follow. ”
Banks, which created a model competition in 2003 and hosted all except one cycle until the end of 2018, also seemingly solved the visibility of the show for models plus size.
According to the American next best model ALUM SARAH HARTSHORNE, a lot went down when it comes to a TV show produced by the Tyra banka. Hartshorne, who competed on the cycle (AKA season) 9 AntM, was one of several former contestants who spoke about their experience in the show Competition Competition on Tuesday, November 19, season (…)
“Now my 51 -year -old, muted, cellulite covered with a larger tummy, and 10 million times larger goats are going through these doors that I opened with everyone behind us on the runway and said,” Honey, it’s just the beginning, “” she closed the harsh applause. “
Bank’s speech comes as revived clips from Antm Continue to bike on social media. In 2020, Controversial moments from the show He began to appear on Tiktoku and further, which caused a wave of negative feedback on banks and the creative team of the show.
In one of the clips that circled online, banks criticized the winner of cycle 6 Dani Evans for not closing the gap in the teeth.
“So, Danielle, you went to the dentist, but you refused to close your gap,” Banks said in the video. “Do you really think you can have a coverage contract with a gap in your mouth?” (One of the Antm Prices were a $ 100,000 contract with the cosmetics brand.)
Evans, now 39, he replied, “Yes, why not?” To which banks answered, “These are all people to see. It’s easy, fresh, beautiful covergirl. It’s not tradable. ”
Evans was partially closed during the show and was later crowned the winner of the season.
Tyra Banks, Kelly Cutrone, Bryan Boy, Rob Evans
Angelo Sgambati/The CW NetworkIn another clipm of the contestants, they had the skin darken for the photo shoot “Biracial-Temed” in cycle 13 and cycle 4, competitors Bare rondot He was asked to present in a coffin in the cemetery one day after her boyfriend died.
Banks later accepted calls and published publication via x in May 2020, “saw contributions about the insensitivity of any past Antm Moments and I agree with you. Looking back, they were some really from the choice. I appreciate your honorary feedback and send so much love and virtual hugs. ”
During an interview with January 2025 about the podcast “The Viall Files”, Antm Cycle 16 runner-up and current Souther star Molly O’Connell It is called the modeling series’a little psychological torture”
O’Connell (37) claimed that the production team would “delight” with us “deliberately” and increase the emotions of every “really late” conversations.
“I would get low attacks on blood sugar and need food and they would hang a sandwich in front of me.” “Just a few more Molly questions and then we will feed you,” she told the hosts Nick vall from her time filming in 2010. “It was so toxic.”
Joined to Viall’s wife, Natalie Joythat there was a distorted view on the size of the model Antm. “People that would be like,” you have a plus size. “You’re the biggest girl here.” They’re smaller than me now, “O’Connell said.
Even with bad, however, O’Connell said that AntM is “very fun” and had “a lot of amazing experiences” that helped her.
“I’d still do it again,” she insisted. “It wasn’t so terrible that I wouldn’t do that experience again.”
