"She's not going to pretend as if she hasn't seen the brutal social media dissection of her twisted brainchild, America's Next Top Model. The one-time reality TV juggernaut has found a new life on streaming, and in 2020 the supermodel-turned-media-mogul addressed blowback to the body shaming, black-, brown-, and yellowface, and unethical production choices with a smidgen of humility: "Looking back, those were some really off choices," she tweeted. "Appreciate your honest feedback and am sending so much love and virtual hugs.""
"This is the age of the accountability documentary, wherein critiques of and grievances about people and past pop culture phenomena like Britney Spears and Abercrombie & Fitch are packaged into salacious tell-alls meant to correct the record. It was obvious Banks' empire would be placed under a director's microscope eventually. Enter Netflix's Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model, a surprisingly candid three-part docuseries which allows her and other key players from the Top Model world to recount their experiences good, humiliating, traumatic and everything"
Tyra Banks acknowledged past problematic choices, tweeting that looking back those were off choices and offering appreciation and virtual hugs. The Netflix three-part docuseries Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model presents candid recollections from former participants and producers about body shaming, racial impersonations (black-, brown-, and yellowface), and unethical production choices. Testimonies escalate from small transgressions to more infuriating abuses, including an incident where contestant Shandi Sullivan says she blacked out after drinking and ended up in bed with a male model while producers filmed and packaged the episode as "The Girl Who Cheated." Other contestants recount trauma and producer negligence.
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