Psych Up | EP 4
Curse of: America’s Next Top Model
iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
CONTENT WARNING: This episode mentions sexual assault, suicide, and suicidal ideation.
Before you could be cast on America’s Next Top Model, you had to pass a psychological evaluation. Contestants were told these psych evals were about keeping them safe. But whose safety was ANTM really worried about? In this episode, we explain how the ANTM psych eval worked and where it failed.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. It's 2006, and a teenager named Jasmine Gonzalez |
| 0:08.1 | just sent in her audition tape to be on America's Next Top Model. I should be America's |
| 0:13.2 | like time model because I devote myself to this. Every day is like a fashion opportunity. |
| 0:19.1 | I caught up with Jasmine earlier this year. |
| 0:21.8 | These days, she's a preschool teacher, and she has the soft-spoken demeanor to match. |
| 0:27.5 | But back in 2006, being on A&TM was her dream. |
| 0:31.8 | I come from the Puerto Rican culture and in Chicago. |
| 0:34.7 | No one was telling skinny, so I was just like the model of the town. |
| 0:39.1 | But there weren't too many high-fashioned runways in her neighborhood in Chicago, |
| 0:43.3 | so she got exposure elsewhere. |
| 0:45.4 | From a very young age, I grew up on the stage. |
| 0:48.0 | I was a singing a dancer, but then naturally I progressed into becoming a model. |
| 0:52.1 | I started competing in pageants and I also started |
| 0:56.3 | doing hair shows for this Latino woman who owned the hair salon. And I started to realize |
| 1:04.2 | we would win every competition that I would grace the runway on. People at school and in her neighborhood |
| 1:11.9 | also started to realize |
| 1:13.4 | there was something special about Jazeline. |
| 1:16.1 | Remember, this was also in an era |
| 1:17.7 | where if you were a tall, pretty girl, |
| 1:19.9 | people would tell you, |
| 1:21.2 | you should be on America's next top model. |
| 1:23.8 | You should audition for America's next top model. |
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