Former “America’s next top model“Candidate Yaya dacosta Recently she “completely revealed” Tyra Banks For the “trauma” she had the reality competition show in the early 2000s.
Banks that created the show in 2003 has been under fire since problematic clips from the show have reappeared online.
During the Beings The black women at Hollywood Awards gave Tyra Banks a speech in which she dealt with the negative criticism she has received over the years how she treated women on “Antm”. On Saturday, March 15, 2025, Dacosta, one of the more recognizable names from the franchise, released an Instagram video that dealt with the words of her former boss and revealed that she has moved on.
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Tyra Banks says she fought for diversity on “America’s next top model”
Banks born and grew up in Inglewood, California, began modeling at the age of 15. Sports Illustrated swimsuit And GQ.
In 2003 the supermodel created the television program “America’s Next Top Model”, in which aspiring models participated in an interactive show To win a modeling contract, a magazine and a contract with a large cosmetic brand.
The casts were diverse and often showed many women with colors and women of different heights and sizes. However, banks revealed that their decision, including being included, caused a lot of setback.
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“At a time when the world was, to show different beauties: ‘What? Are you going to? And what? Was that that? ‘A time when people in the fashion industry told me: “You put the girls out of the hood on their show?” I said, “Why can the girl from the trailer park become a supermodel, but the girl who cools in the park in the bonnet can’t?” And we fought and we fought and we did it, “said Banks during the Beings Awards.
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Tyra Banks admits that she didn’t always understand it correctly
Later, during her speech, Banks admitted that she and the production team hadn’t always really “done it properly” when they filmed the HIT reality show. “I said something stupid SH-T,” she said. “But I refuse to have my inheritance about some things that are connected to each other on the Internet when there were 24 (seasons) of the change in the world.”
Banks was criticized, which many consider problematic behavior during their time as the host of the show. Earlier clips show the supermodel that makes fun of a woman’s gap teeth, while other white models with a black face contain. “We all develop. We all get better together. And I am so excited that I and as many of us have opened this door for others to follow,” she said.
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Dacosta appeals to bank videos on social media
Dacosta, who appeared in the third season of the show and achieved second place, addressed Banks’s speech in a video that she posted on Instagram. In the lengthy clip, the model actress said that she felt “forced” before she said she had experienced “trauma” while filming the series.
The 42-year-old excluded the producers for their “manipulative processing and weapon of the weaknesses of the girls” and “catalyzed body dysmorphia to eating disorders”. She also explained that the “most shocking” moments on television were not “broadcast”. However, the “Chicago Med” actress revealed that she learned to regulate my nervous system by being in such an atmosphere.
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Dacosta has fully assigned banks for the past
Elsewhere, in her video, Dacosta revealed that she was also visited Beings Awards, but she missed the speech of Banks when she apologized to the toilet. However, she met the former host “America’s Got Talent” backstage and said you had a “nice conversation”.
“At that moment I was so excited to go to her, reach for her hands and to greet her with warmth, gratitude, with love,” she said. “Something I would not have been able to do. We didn’t speak the few places in which we have been in the past. Both pretended not to see themselves. “
Dacosta admitted that she was “excited” to see banks before saying that the “Antm” creator did not offer any “explicit excuse” for things that went wrong on the set of her show. Nevertheless, Dacosta was ready to know for banks that she had healed from her experience.
“All of her, I held this woman, and when it was time that the hug was over, I held more. And I took a deep breath because I wanted her to feel what it felt like it was completely forgiven, appreciated and loved,” she said.
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According to reports, banks are difficult to work
In the middle of the backlash banks she received for earlier “note” episodes, she organized “Dancing with the Stars”. During this time, Reports appeared Via the former Victoria’s Secret model with which you can work with a “nightmare”.
Sources claimed that the mother was “disrespectful” to the crew and gave “wild requirements” before talking about her “toxic” energy. “The tensions are high in the ballroom. Between low ratings, covid outbreaks and the constant administration of the Tyra counter -reactions are the producers in terms of everything on the rise,” they revealed.
The banks left the series in 2023 and told TMZ She was ready to “concentrate on my business and my entrepreneurship and to produce more televisions”.
