Bite Back with Abbey Sharp Blackface. Body Shaming. Sexual Assault. The America’s Next Top Model Reckoning is FINALLY Here.
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Mar 3, 2026 A sharp critique of America's Next Top Model’s harmful legacy. Topics include diet culture, public weigh-ins and forced makeovers. Conversations about coerced dental work, nudity, sexual harassment and dangerous shoots. Discussions of race-swaps, tokenism and how trauma was turned into entertainment.
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Makeovers Functioned As Compliance Training
- The show framed makeovers as empowerment while forcing contestants into unwanted, damaging changes.
- Abbey describes hair shaved against wishes, damaging weaves, and threats of elimination for pushback as compliance training, not empowerment.
Forced Dental Work And Contradictory Directives
- Contestants were pressured into permanent dental alterations to fit marketable looks, with contradictory directives across cycles.
- Abbey contrasts Dani Evans being told to close a gap and Chelsea being told to widen one years later.
Trauma Filmed Instead Of Stopped
- The show normalized sexual harassment and filmed traumatic incidents instead of protecting contestants.
- Abbey recounts Kenya Hill's non-consensual touching and production minimizing her concerns while cameras kept rolling.
