Reality Check: The Dark Side of America's Next Top Model. + Recap
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Netflix just pulled back the curtain on one of the most iconic reality competition shows of the 2000s — America's Next Top Model.
In Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model, former contestants revisit the makeovers, meltdowns, and moments that shaped pop culture — but at what cost?
Tonight, we're breaking down:
• The infamous makeover episodes
• "We were rooting for you!" revisited
• Behind-the-scenes manipulation & editing
• Mental health and exploitation allegations
• Did ANTM actually create supermodels?
• Does Tyra Banks owe accountability?
Was ANTM empowerment… or humiliation packaged as inspiration?
Let's talk about it.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Kempire here on the Kempire Radio Network. |
| 0:03.7 | Welcome back to the Kempire channel, your number one source for pop culture news and music, entertainment, reality TV, and so much more. |
| 0:10.5 | Be sure to let me know if you can hear me, see me, all the good things. |
| 0:14.0 | We have a special live, evening live for you guys today, a recap of reality check inside America's Next Top Model. I don't know if you guys |
| 0:23.7 | had a chance to watch it yet. It was three hours of my life yesterday. Then I watched it again |
| 0:28.7 | today so that I could do this recap with you guys. Tyra Banks sits down in the documentary. |
| 0:34.7 | And there are mixed feelings about Tyra. There are mixed feelings on whether or not |
| 0:38.4 | she took any accountability, if at all throughout this documentary. But if you had to rate this |
| 0:45.2 | documentary from 1 to 10, let me know. Let me know in the live chat. And if you're part of the |
| 0:50.3 | replay crew, you should have let us know as well. I have a lot of thoughts because I'm going to say this as a, not a disclaimer, but I guess sort of like a disclaimer. I came into this as someone that watched American, America's next top model from the beginning. Okay. And I fell off. I probably fell off when they got rid of Nigel, Miss Jay, and Mr. Jay. |
| 1:12.6 | Because I can't even remember the later years. |
| 1:16.1 | I remember there was one particular point that they decided to bring it back. |
| 1:18.3 | And I think it was airing on VH1. |
| 1:21.6 | And they decided to bring Rita ORA as the host. |
| 1:26.5 | And I like Rita Oara. |
| 1:27.2 | Don't get me wrong. But I feel like they're always trying to prop up Rita Aura. And like when she first came out, her music, remember that? And everyone was saying, oh, she's in a thruple with Beyonce and Jay-Z. Remember those rumors? Those are rumors. Not saying that it was true. Okay. Only for us to fast forward. And then there |
| 1:44.3 | was those pictures with her and Tessa Thompson and her current husband. Wait a minute. Wait. |
| 1:51.0 | No. Who said that? What? Um, this is digressed really quickly. So let me focus. |
| 2:05.6 | So I don't remember those years i didn't watch those years of of america's next top model the rita ora years and how many years were those |
| 2:11.1 | how many cycles were those what two right remember okay. says, yep, I remember those rumors. |
| 2:17.9 | All right, all right. |
| 2:19.3 | Exactly. |
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