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Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model is simply a three-part docuseries connected Netflix exploring immoderate of the astir arguable moments from the infamous reality show — similar erstwhile the contestants had to bash a "race-swapping" challenge.
That's right, successful Cycle 4, the contestants did a photoshoot for the Got Milk? run successful which they were assigned a contention different than their ain to "model." It led to brownface, blackface, yellowface...basically each kinds of culturally insensitive and violative moments.
And for immoderate reason, the contestants besides had to airs with tiny children of the contention they were meant to beryllium depicting.
In Reality Check, ANTM originative manager and justice Jay Manuel said helium had really asked to beryllium excused from the shoot. "I conscionable said, 'Race swapping? Wow,'" helium shares, adding that Tyra had told him she would "handle" it and helium conscionable had to bash his job. "I recognized that my relation was starting to person limitations. That sprout was happening regardless."
Jay adds that successful the shots wherever helium was explaining the situation to contestants connected the show, it's wide to him however uncomfortable helium was. "I conscionable had to bash my job," helium says.
Tyra Banks — who not lone created and hosted ANTM but besides came up with the conception for the race-swap photoshoot — says successful Reality Check that she didn't deliberation the situation was "controversial."
"I was successful my ain small bubble successful my ain small head. This was my mode of showing the satellite that Brown and Black is beautiful," Tyra says. "But past we enactment it retired determination and the satellite was like, 'Are you crazy? Have you mislaid your mind?'"
Here's the thing, though — ANTM did another race-swapping situation 9 cycles aft the archetypal 1 — which the documentary mentions, but Tyra doesn't truly address.
Tyra does say, "Looking astatine the amusement present done a 2020 lens, it’s an issue, and I recognize 100% why."
But aft watching the docuseries, a batch of radical weren't buying Tyra's statements, and were mostly horrified by the full thing:
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