Here Are 10 Wildly Problematic 'America's Next Top Model' Moments, And I Can’t Believe They ACTUALLY Let This Air

So, connection connected the net thoroughfare is that a three-part America’s Next Top Model documentary, Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, is dropping connected Netflix connected February 16. And listen… that amusement was a lot. You cognize it, I cognize it, the full early-2000s tv epoch knows it.

For anyone who grew up dreaming astir becoming a exemplary and walking runways successful dilatory motion, this amusement was some aspirational and terrifying. Tyra Banks was the blueprint… but the amusement itself? Whew, a antithetic communicative altogether. The fig of arguable and “did that truly conscionable happen?” moments inactive unrecorded rent-free successful pop culture history.

The trailer adjacent opens with Tyra saying, “I haven’t truly said much, but present it’s time,” which fundamentally means calendars are astir to beryllium cleared and snacks are astir to beryllium stocked for a one-sitting binge.

But earlier the documentary spills immoderate beverage it’s astir to spill, it feels lone close to instrumentality a small travel down representation lane and revisit the moments that had everyone pausing and texting their friends, “ARE YOU SEEING THIS???” So, present are 10 of the astir arguable and problematic moments from America’s Next Top Model.

1. The clip erstwhile Cassandra Whitehead refused the shorter pixie chopped during ANTM Cycle 5 and chose to permission the competition.

In Cycle 5 (which is conscionable ANTM lingo for 'season'), Tyra sniffed retired Cassandra’s pageant-girl attachment to her agelong hairsbreadth and decided the lone cure was a blonde pixie chopped (which was really expected to beryllium akin to Mia Farrow's successful Rosemary's Baby). The implicit highest of the madness was erstwhile Jay Manuel tried to gaslight her into cutting different inch off, acting shocked erstwhile she yet said "no" and stood her ground.

She yet chose to propulsion the plug and locomotion away, saying she needed to enactment existent to herself and wanted to locomotion distant knowing she made the close prime for the agelong run.

2. How ANTM treated bony gaps wholly otherwise successful Cycle 6 and Cycle 15. In Cycle 6, the judges fundamentally treated Danielle’s spread similar a flaw she had to "fix" to beryllium successful, giving her that classical passive-aggressive we’re-only-saying-this-because-we-care routine.

But then, the amusement wholly flipped the publication successful Cycle 15 with Chelsey, and asked her to really WIDEN her spread astatine the dentist. Tsk tsk tsk.

3. Isis King’s profoundly uncomfortable acquisition arsenic ANTM’s archetypal openly trans contestant successful Cycle 11. Right from the archetypal episode, the location was filled with radical questioning her identity, and Tyra didn't truly assistance by asking ace invasive questions astir her modulation connected nationalist TV.

There were a fewer agleam spots, though. Seeing Analeigh Tipton, who is present a big-deal actor, conscionable beryllium with Isis and enslaved with her portion she did her hormone injections was truthful saccharine and human. But then, virtually successful that aforesaid episode, different miss pushed Isis distant successful the excavation JUST for being adjacent her.

4. When Anna Bradfield’s refusal to bash the Cycle 2 nude sprout led to her aboriginal exit from the competition.

When Anna Bradfield, a woman and mother, understandably wasn't vibing with the "body overgarment and bare stranger" aesthetic, Nigel Barker tried to smooth-talk her into it. But Anna wasn't buying what helium was selling, and she stood her ground, which led to her being promptly kicked disconnected the set.

5. They truly did blackface successful Cycles 4 and 13. Easily 1 of the astir jaw-dropping challenges successful ANTM history, Cycles 4 and 13 had the models “swap races” for a photograph shoot, posing arsenic antithetic ethnicities than their own. And yes, it went precisely wherever you deliberation it did, blackface and all.

6. When Banks perpetually fat-shamed Keenyah during Cycle 4 and made her airs similar an elephant successful 1 of the photoshoots.

It was hard to ticker that Keenyah storyline successful Cycle 4 without cringing. Assigning her "Gluttony" for a photograph sprout felt similar a targeted jab, and no, you cannot person maine otherwise. Then having her airs arsenic an elephant? Geez.

Even erstwhile Tyra tried to play the "supportive mentor" by saying she believed successful Keenyah, she’d inactive driblet comments astir however overmuch the editors had to "fix" her tummy successful photos.

7. Angelea Preston’s disqualification aft winning ANTM Cycle 17, contempt being honorable astir her past.

They knew everything; they fto her compete, fto her win, but ended up disqualifying her for her honesty. They ended up reshooting the finale to crown Lisa, instead, which was specified a acold move.

8. Kayla Ferrel’s Cycle 15 sprout that forced her to relive trauma contempt speaking openly astir her past.

Kayla had already been unfastened astir being a subsister of intersexual maltreatment and a arrogant subordinate of the LGBTQ+ community, yet the amusement enactment her successful this nightmare scenario, which included her rollerskating portion reciting lines, capped disconnected with a mandatory buss with a antheral model.

Watching her interruption down successful tears and explicate her trauma to Mr. Jay was genuinely heavy, but his effect was fundamentally the quality equivalent of a "404 Error" message. Instead of showing an ounce of empathy oregon adjusting the shoot, helium conscionable told her to "push through" and suggested she get therapy.

9. Jael Strauss was told to airs arsenic a corpse connected Cycle 8 conscionable hours aft learning her person died.

And somehow, successful that precise aforesaid episode, aft a makeover that had already near her shaken, the situation was a transgression country photograph sprout wherever the models had to airs arsenic literal corpses. Jael was understandably struggling to focus, but alternatively of giving her adjacent a 2nd to process what had conscionable happened, the judges criticized her for being “too emotional” and letting it impact her performance.

10. Winnie Harlow being called a “panda” and a “cow” implicit her vitiligo connected Cycle 21.

When they tried to benignant things out, helium called her a “panda” and a “cow,” and erstwhile she rightfully called him out, she was made to consciousness similar she was the problem.

After each this, there’s decidedly a batch to unpack, and it’ll beryllium absorbing to spot what Tyra Banks and Jay Manuel person to accidental successful the documentary. This database could honestly spell on, but present I privation to perceive from you. Which problematic ANTM infinitesimal inactive lives rent-free successful your head? Let maine cognize successful the comments.