Documentary Book Club - Netflix’s Reality Check: America’s Next Top Model

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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We were rooting for you, we were all rooting for you!! Chelsea welcomes Justine Kay and Natasha Scott-Reichel of 2 Black Girls, 1 Rose to unpack the Netflix documentary “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model.” They revisit how “ANTM” shifted from Tyra Banks’ revenge on the fashion industry into a “Fear Factor” meets “Survivor” takedown of young women in the industry. They reexamine the infamous storyline around Shandi, the makeover dental trauma, the race-swap photo shoots, and how ice cream is somehow a part of it all. Brace yourself, a season 25 of “ANTM” is upon us! A content warning: This episode contains discussions of sensitive topics, including disordered eating, body image talk, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and racism. Take care while listening and find helpful resources here. Follow Chelsea: Instagram @chelseadevantez Join the cookie community: Become a member of the Patreon Thank you to our sponsors: Quince - Go to quince.com/glamorous for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Thrive Causemetics - Get 20% off your first order at thrivecausemetics.com/glamorous Ritual - Save 40% on your first month at ritual.com/glamorous. Libro.fm - Click here to get 2 audiobooks for the price of 1 with your first month of membership using code TRASH. Show Notes: Dringo! Card Karrine Steffans Memoir Episode Sarah Hartshorn Memoir Episode Sarah Hartshorn Interview Where to find our guests: Justine Kay and Natasha Scott-Reichel Listen to 2 Black Girls, 1 Rose on Apple Podcasts Patreon TikTok Instagram YouTube *** Glamorous Trash is all about going high and low at the same time— Glam and Trash. We recap and book club celebrity memoirs, deconstruct pop culture, and sometimes, we cry! If you've ever referenced Mariah Carey in therapy... then this is the podcast for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Josh Spiegel, host of the podcast, Lunatic in the Newsroom.
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0:11.3	Americans giving up on dressing like civilized human beings,
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0:17.6	If you enjoy wild overthinking, lunatic in the newsroom is for you. It's funny,
0:23.0	informative, and emotionally unstable. Lunatic in the newsroom. Listen today.
0:35.3	Welcome to Glammerous Trash. This is a podcast at bookclubs, viral articles, celebrity memoirs, and trashy discourse to elevate your life. I'm your host, Chelsea DeVontes. I'm a TV writer, comedian, filmmaker, author, and sometimes I'm in stuff too. And today, we're doing a documentary book club on Netflix's reality check inside America's Next Top Model, which just came out on February 16th.
1:00.7	It's three episodes. I highly recommend you watch it, but it did feel like watching a horror
1:08.3	documentary of a couple of years that we lived through. It's so intense.
1:13.8	Here is your trigger warning for, I think, everything. I think for ED, assault, a lot of
1:19.8	difficult talk. So take care while listening. But we must discuss America's Next Top Model. And this
1:25.3	kind of goes along with a previous episode we did with
1:28.0	Sarah Hartshorn, who was on season nine and wrote a tell-all. And we will link that episode in the
1:33.8	notes because they are companion pieces today. Now let's dive in.
1:38.4	I want to talk about being slapped across the face. We felt betrayed.
1:41.7	And then slapped right back. It was very, very intense.
1:46.6	But you guys were demanding it.
1:48.9	And so we kept pushing.
1:51.7	My guests today are Justine K.
1:54.3	And Natasha Scott Reichel, the brilliant women behind the hit show, two black girls,
1:59.0	One Rose, a podcast discovering what we can learn about
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