By Jordan Moreau. The major video that caused Banks to respond was from season 6 of the show, in which she tells contestant Dani Evans that she would never become a model because of the gap in her front teeth. Evans ended up winning the season and went on modeling for brands like CoverGirl and Sephora and magazines such as Elle and Essence. She posted a video on Instagram , explaining how the viral moment was played up for TV. Looking back, those were some really off choices.

We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Two beautiful Tyra Banks narratives stand before me, all over my Twitter timeline. At worst, they perpetuated toxicity, unhealthy body image, and befuddling understandings of race and sexuality. The common factor in these shows, beyond their problematic content, is the woman at the helm. Tyra asserted that she wanted to disrupt the fashion industry that she knew so well with ANTM, which has run for 24 seasons and to tackle a range of issues that were important to her with The Tyra Banks Show , which ran from to

First there's the physical strain the gaggle of aspiring models are put through: posing in bikinis in ice cold swimming pools; kneeling for hours on burning hot sands; negotiating a high speed travelator catwalk in high heels: the potential for injury and indignity is intense and relentless. But that's not the half of it. There's the emotional pressure of living in a house with a dozen or so egocentric, sensitive and rilly-rilly good looking young women. The archetypes were the same in this season as any other: the young mum "I'm doing this for my daughter, Cassidy, so I can give her the life she deserves" the really weird looking girl who always gets through to at least the semi-finals "I wanna show them back home that I'm not a freak" , the Ivy Leaguer who gave up her place at college to follow her dreams "Tyra says my intelligence is a flaw as it makes me over-think my poses" , the snobby fashionista "Patrick Demarchelier is a household name to me" and the sassy homegirl "Who drank my margarita mix!

Subscriber Account active since. One thing that has remained constant, however, is the fact that at the end of each season, or cycle, only one contestant is crowned America's Next Top Model. From Cycle One winner Adrianne Curry to Kyla Coleman, the winner of Cycle 24, some of the show's "top models" have gone on to have successful careers in the modeling industry.