Tyra Banks Isn’t Sorry Enough in Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model
The Cut | 16.02.2026 19:00
If you ask Tyra Banks, America’s Next Top Model was meant to disrupt the fashion industry. But if you remember tuning in to watch the models being ordered to “smize” while runway-walking off the side of a skyscraper, or cosplaying as “high-fashion” homeless people alongside actual homeless people, you know that the show morphed into an extreme spectacle that, for 24 seasons,summed up the worst excesses of 2000s reality TV. I sometimes wonder if the former contestants still jolt upright in the middle of the night screaming, “Tyra Mail!” as they wake from a nightmare.
