Banks Tira She realizes the surrounding criticism with its long -term realistic view Next America’s next modelBut she refuses to distort her legacy.

While accepting the honor of the first major lights at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood on Thursday, February 27, Banks, 51, was eaten, Antm Its early diversity on the screen amid reports on toxicity on the group.

More than 20 years ago, I created a called TV program called Next America’s next model“The banks have started.” You have no idea how difficult we were to fight to bring diversity in this TV program at a time when it was not present; To show a different beauty at a time when the world was like, “What? Do you represent that? And what was that? At a time when people tell me the fashion industry,“ You put girls from the cover in your program? ”I was like,“ Why can the girl from the trailer garden become a model, but the girl who calms down ”in the garden in the cover you cannot?” We fought and discovered and made us happen.

“Did we get it correctly? Hell no. I said some shackles – but I refuse to be a legacy about some of the things related to each other on the Internet when there were 24 courses to change the world. We are all developing. We are all improved together. I am so excited that I, and many of us opened this door to follow others.”

Banks, which created the model competition offer in 2003 and all hosted with the exception of one session until the end of it in 2018, also tackled the view of excess size models.

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According to the next model in America, Sarah Hartchorn, unprecedented when it comes to the Tyra Banks TV program. Hartchorn, who competed for the course (also known as the season) 9 AntM, was one of the former contestants who talked about their experience at the fashion show competition during Tuesday, 19 November, the season […]

“Now, the 51 -year -old abdomen, 51, and his songs in cellulite, and the oldest 10 million times, walk in this section that I have opened with all of us to this runway, saying:” It is just a beginning, “and concluded to the rebellious applause.

The bank’s letter comes at a time when clips are returned from Antm Continue to make tours on social media. In 2020, Destroyed moments of the show It started to appear on Tiktok and beyond, prompting a wave of negative comments directed at both banks and the creative exhibition team.

In one of the sections that were distributed online, the bank winners were criticized Danny Evans To not block the gap in its teeth.

“So, Daniel, you went to the dentist, but you refused to close your gap,” Banka said in the video. “Do you really think you can get a Covergirl with a gap in your mouth?” (One of Antm The prizes were $ 100,000 with a cosmetic mark.)

“Yes, why not?” Evans answered Evans. The banks replied, “This is all people see. It is easy, smiled, a beautiful cover. It is not marketable.”

Evans got the partial closed gap during the show and later crowned the winner of the season.

In another clip, the contestants grievated their skin to take a photo “under the title” in the 13th session and in the 4th session, the contestant The naked Rondot He was asked to be put in a coffin in a cemetery one day after her friend’s death.

The banks later accepted the summons, as they were published via X in May 2020, “I watched the publications about the lack of sensitivity to some of the past Antm Moments and I agree with you. If we look back, these were really options outside. We appreciate your sincere notes and send a lot of love and virtual hugs. “

During an interview in January 2025 on “The Vial Files”, Antm The 16th runner -up course and current The magic of the south star Molly Ocunile The modeling chain is called “A little psychological torture“

OCONEL, 37, claimed that the production team “will” mess with us “intentionally and increases the feelings of everyone with” really late “interviews.

“I was getting low blood sugar attacks and needed food, and they were flowing on a sandwich in front of me. The host said,” A few other questions Molly and then we will feed you. ” Nick Valel From her time in filming in 2010. “It was very poisonous.”

She added to Vial’s wife, Natalie JoyThere was a perverted perspective about the sizes of the model on Antm. “People who will be like them,” you are plus. You are the biggest girl here. “They are younger than me now.”

Even with the bad, Ocunel said that Antm was “very enjoyable” and has “a lot of amazing experiences” that helped her career.

“I am still doing it again,” I insisted. “It was so horrific that I will not do this experience again.”