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Blackface. Body Shaming. Sexual Assault. The America’s Next Top Model Reckoning is FINALLY Here.
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- Bite Back with Abbey Sharp
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- Mar 3, 2026
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- 1073
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Summary
In today’s episode of Bite Back with Abbey Sharp, we’re revisiting one of the most iconic — and deeply problematic — cultural touchstones of the early 2000s: America’s Next Top Model. For many millennials, the show wasn’t just entertainment — it shaped how we understood beauty, bodies, ambition, and what it meant to be “marketable.” In light of Netflix’s docuseries Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, we’re unpacking the gap between the show’s “progressive” branding and the reality of what it normalized — from humiliation and body shaming to blurred boundaries around race, identity, and contestant wellbeing.