Tyra Banks Is Getting Dragged Yet Again For America's Next Top Model Behavior

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read

It seems Tyra Banks can't catch a break when it comes "America's Next Top Model." After a TikTok user shared a compilation video from Cycle 1, which aired in 2003, Banks and a panel of judges are being slammed for the way they talked about contestant Robin Manning. As detailed in the video, Manning's body was considered "plus-size" by Banks because her body was said to be heavier from the hips down.

During another clip, Manning was left crying after Banks questioned why she wanted to cover herself from the waist down. Panelist and fellow model Janice Dickinson made it clear from the beginning that she wasn't rooting for her, stating, "America's Next Top Model is not a plus-size model." In a later episode, Dickinson said Manning was too "fat" and "huge" to be modeling while another person insisted she was "too old."

Unsurprisingly, the vintage clip went viral and many people had something to say about the show's treatment of the contestants. "Were you a child in the early 2000s listening to Tyra Banks call women who were 5'10 and 115lbs plus sized? if so, you may be entitled to financial compensation," one user tweeted. "The 2000s were something else. This woman's body was sickening," another person shared. "Someone please make a ANTM Documentary cause Tyra and her lil friends deserve to get dragged like Hector's corpse," a third user remarked. Banks or anyone associated with "ANTM" has yet to respond.

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