Video of Tyra Banks making fun of model's gapped teeth resurface

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An old video of Tyra Banks making fun of a constant's gapped teeth on America's Next Top Model has resurfaced... and fans can't believe how problematic her behavior is.

The 46-year-old supermodel found herself in center of a new controversy after a clip of her pressuring the reality show's Season 6 winner Danielle Evans to get dental surgery to have her gap closed in 2006 went viral on Twitter this week.

"Do you really think you can have a Cover Girl contract with the gap in your mouth?" Banks tells the aspiring model before putting her finger between her own two front teeth to mock her.

"This is all people see. Easy, Breezy, Beautiful, Cover Girl. It's not marketable," Banks asserts.

The resurfaced video made many fans question whether Banks was actually that awful to the contestants on the show. After all, most of us watched ANTM when we were in our teens and back then, her behavior may have been overlooked.

It turns out, there were a number of very troublesome moments over the years, including the time she made a contestant do a photoshoot in a grave one day after her childhood friend died...

...or when Banks told an openly gay woman she shouldn't be "too" proud.

Another user also pointed out the show's use of blackface.

 

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[COOOK 76,406]

We shall stan the power of gapped teeth -

 

[Runway 27,876]

[BUtterfield 8 41,466]

Antm was so fun to watch back in the day but it was truly problematic 

[RahrahWitch 6,985]

There's plenty of popular models with gapped teeth, Lara Stone is one and she's gorgeous.

"Too Proud" Meaning don't look like Masculine/Androgynous. Girl...

Casual Blackface... My God. 

[Killa 17,486]

One more day of people having nothing to do and try to invent something.

 

[Serial Chiller 8,044]

I mean do we really expect anything more from the fashion industry, where people are expected to starve to death for jobs? If anything she’s a walking caricature of that industry. The high fashion world and its snotty vacuous gatekeepers can stuff it in their ass. 

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17 minutes ago, COOOK said:

We shall stan the power of gapped teeth -

 

 

Yass!! Gaps are beautiful!! Queen Melanie helped me see that

 

 

[CyanDante 6,074]

She also made Chelsey widen her gap tooth in cycle 15. 

So I guess she changed? 

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2 minutes ago, CyanDante said:

She also made Chelsey widen her gap tooth in cycle 15. 

So I guess she changed? 

She discovered it could be fashionable and editorial. The modeling world is a revolving door of trends...

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2 minutes ago, COOOK said:

She discovered it could be fashionable and editorial. The modeling world is a revolving door of trends...

I am not defending her by any means. 

Tyra has done quite questionable stuff. Good for her if she learned. 

Danielle was my favourite winner. And I was glad she actually put her foot down.

ANTM was quite a guilty pleasure but problematic as well. In cycle 4, Keenyah was gaining weight , and they assigned her with Gluttony in the seven deadly sins photoshoot. 

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2 minutes ago, CyanDante said:

I am not defending her by any means. 

Tyra has done quite questionable stuff. Good for her if she learned. 

Danielle was my favourite winner. And I was glad she actually put her foot down.

ANTM was quite a guilty pleasure but problematic as well. In cycle 4, Keenyah was gaining weight , and they assigned her with Gluttony in the seven deadly sins photoshoot. 

I said that with a bit of an irony, since the fashion industry itself has its own incongruences  

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Even during this crisis, people are canceling celebrities based on 20 years old clips? can cancel culture focus on actual real issues?

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