Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model

Matt Roush says...

“I was gonna change the beauty world,” recalls Tyra Banks as she reflects on her groundbreaking but controversial reality competition America’s Next Top Model, which was turned down by the major networks until it found a home, and cult notoriety, on UPN, The CW, and eventually VH1. A juicy three-part docuseries relives the gaudy highs and the garish lows as the show faces charges of exploitation and cruelty in its treatment of contestants. Banks understood that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what happened behind the scenes was often anything but pretty.

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