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America’s Next Top Model Was Run Like a Cult
Sarah Hartshorne unpacks all the behind-the-scenes gossip from her memoir about competing in cycle nine.
TikTok reactions to the patently insane things Tyra Banks said and did — including casual body-shaming, screaming her head off at a contestant, and pretending to faint during a taping — regularly go viral. Hartshorne, now a writer, stand-up comic, and new mom, reveals in her new book, You Wanna Be on Top?, that the behind-the-scenes experience was even more harrowing than it looked on TV. Throughout the book, Hartshorne explicitly describes the show as a cult, especially in the ways producers allegedly used isolation and outright lies to detach contestants from reality.
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