Photographer Reacts To DANGEROUS Americas Next Top Model Photoshoot 

Omg the elephant thing makes sense now, that's so cruel wtf was wrong with them!!!

Yep! Exactly! I remember watching this season and thinking she was being so mistreated! And she's so beautiful!

I'm so glad she was one of the ones who went on to have a pretty great life after this.

I agree, its so awful! She is so thin and lean already!? Do they want her to be a skeleton or something?? And even if she was "overweight", there is nothing wrong with having a different body shape or weight!

@@FriendOfMara Yeah, I think the in between models got it bad. Not the body to market full figure, but not the extreme thin of your runway models. What's sick is Tyra was kind of a novelty. Not all models do all fashion and the show was all about "you have to appeal to everyone in every form of modeling... runway, commercial, high fashion, conceptual." Tyra, even you didn't hit every market (not factoring race... but on that, Tyra sure loved reenacting how tough it would be on her black models especially).

Same

I did too... now I see these types of videos and I'm embarrassed that I liked it as a teen.

@@LanaOkeaness this happens to me a lot with classic movies... I absolutely love Breakfast at Tiffany's... then the landlord comes up and I'm like "AAAAAH!! NOOOOO!!!!"

hard same!

@@LanaOkeaness wait what’s wrong with the lion king

Right!?!? Tf.......

Janice was vile tbh

Janice is disgusting and needs to be cancelled wow

Who even is Janice...

@@melaniebrown6805 the girl with black hair as one of the judges

saaaaaaaaaaaaaaame could you imagine how wonderful it would be now with all the instamodels every 5 feet they contestants would all be stunning. And the talent they could find now like jessica and others to work on set... it would be spectacular

The Face

And without animal abuse

Germany's next Topmodel is actually soo much better. Especially in the current season Heidi even included a deaf model and to shoots are so much better too. Maybe worth watching with subtitles

Can we get Jessica as a photographer? I love her feedback

did you forget she made whitney the winner of antm??

@@chikensaregood9500 And that took them how many seasons? Also, Whitney's photos weren't as strong as the others imo

Tyra has nothing to say in the fashion industry lol Tyra isn't even a very successful model.

@@parismoon2130 so now you’re downplaying her winning lmao yall just pick and choose when to be offended 😅 good thing tyra already collecting the millions yall gave her for watching the show

@@bodo887 & who are you

And shamed a girl for doing Playboy and called her a prostitute 👌

Tyra most definitely was not shaming her. She said that it's all about choices and that she can't place the blame on anyone else. How is that shaming? Keenyah gained a considerable amount of weight (15-20 lbs) in a short period of time, which is completely unacceptable and unprofessional for a new model, or anyone in the entertainment industry for that matter. If she was in the real world and gained that much weight that quickly, her contract would be ripped to shreds before she could even think about an explanation. The judges were being realistic because even if the girl doesn't win, it is still good to have knowledge about the industry. Her body is beautiful no matter what, but the industry she wishes to be apart of simply will not accept her (as a SUPERMODEL) at that size. There is nothing that anyone, even Tyra Banks, could do to change that.

@@malaysiafreelon3232 then perhaps she shouldn’t have acted like she was changing it? That was the whole point. And the worse part is that Tyra’s show really could’ve made at least some changes, have some influence on the modeling world if she approached this show with that intention. But her intention was to make a hit reality TV with a lot of drama and advertising. Which is fine, she can do whatever she wants but it’s funny how she acted like she was this revolutionary model who will change the game.

@@LuciferMorningstar-qq4nv The thing is, Tyra was somewhat changing the industry or at least giving girls opportunities they wouldn't have received otherwise. Even at Keenyah's starting weight, which is the weight at which she was accepted into the show, she would've been told to lose weight in the real world. Believe it or not, Keenyah was ALREADY considered a little big for an average model, and Tyra was trying to change this by accepting size 4-6 girls (which is considered too big in the industry) onto the show. If anything, the show sacrificed the better model time and time again for a model who was a success story or different from the rest. Neither Whitney (cycle 10) nor Nyle (cycle 22) were the best out of their groups but the judges picked them because it would be better to have change in the industry. I could name plenty of other times where this has happened, too. The show was revolutionary and ahead of its time in terms of inclusivity and people will never accept that because the modelling industry itself is inherently destructive. You don't hate the show, nor do you just dislike Tyra. The show is simply a small reflection of what the modelling industry actually is.

@@malaysiafreelon3232 funny you should say that thought. I don’t like the show. And I have reasons for that: poor and many uninteresting photoshoots; drama for the sake of drama; I didn’t really get anything apart from the drama from this show where as I really hoped that since there are judges there would be more constructive criticism and interesting information to know just for fun. The show doesn’t stand the test of time and fails in so many ways. I don’t like Tyra either. I don’t hate her by any means, she literally has no impact on my life obviously since we never met, but I don’t like her just because she is too.. just too much I guess. She’s not the type of person you aspire to be despite acknowledging her accomplishments. Some of her catwalks are some of my favorites because she is so beautiful and knows what she’s doing but she’s not the person I’d choose as a role model or even as someone to look up to. A lot of problematic behavior, too much hypocrisy and pretense. So it’s not just the modeling. They chose those contestants because they wanted to appear progressive. That’s the thing. Appear. Not be. That’s my issue with this. They knew they weren’t as good as other models but they wanted to appear progressive.

This entire show was just emotional abuse, manipulation, and gaslighting

That crocodile looked dead I feel so bad for it. It was so unnecessary.

ive heard that the crocodile was sedated beforehand so it would be more docile... so sad

@@recessss and for what??? Few photos. It’s not worth it

isn it just e or this whole show is just degrading what it actually is to be a top model? i mean it must be some sort of a commitment to become one of those... this is turning a profession to a circus. BUT, Jessica s reaction made me laugh really bad lol

No, apparently in the 1st scene tye crocodile was real but for the actual shoot, they used a taxidermy prop or something. The keepers were there just to make it more believable allegedly🤷‍♀️😂

Omg it's so true! Putting up with all the vile comments and antagonism for the rare few compliments. I wonder how many are on good terms with Tyra and the show now to avoid any backlash.

yeah exactly

yesss! they are so sadistic - they literally set challenges to humiliate and make fun of the girls. Also, it was so mean when they wouldn't tell them what aloof meant because it's 'America's Next Top MODEL' not America's Next Top Human Dictionary

And bad hairstyles

Snorlax and Jigglypuff 🤣🤣☠️ your yt videos make my covid days Jessica!! It's funny how confident they were with all these horrible decisions 🤣🥴💯

And hypocrisy. Have you already seen the 'plus size' model who was criticised because she started losing weight during the show? I forgot which girl it was but I remember she looked amazing with what she was doing yet the judges criticised her weight loss.

Give them a break 😂😂💔🍃. It was like 2004

Horrid outfit lmao

What happen?

@@fadeline I believe it’s the next episode but the girls had to model with these 3 guys and one of them was interested in Keenya. He got way too close and made moaning noises that made her incredibly uncomfortable. When she asked to stop the shoot, they made it seem like she was overreacting.

@@wendyrodriguez5951 Wow, everyone involved in that situation were such assholes, except Keenyah of course. Horrible, that's all I can say.

@@wendyrodriguez5951 i remember that scene it was so incomfortable even watching it and they basically just ignored her when she told them about it too, like it was her fault!!

@@morganhinton5519 what a message to the young viewers...

I know this is like 3 months late, but the Croc was taxidermied. As horrible as ANTM is, I don't think they would expose the girls to quite such a dangerous situation, tho I wouldn't put it past them.

Okay so what happend with Keenya is that when they picked her for the show she was "model weight." Then during the course of the competition she put on some weight(Which I think was due to stress/stress eating cause of the competion). Like it was a tiny bit of weight but the judges kept harping on it and making her feel bad about it. That why she was upset about being cast as the elephant and that's why the other girls were laughing.

@@CherryBlossomBlyue and she was assigned "gluttony" for the seven deadly sins episode.

@@Shadowmere445 i think taxied animals are too stiff to move the tail.... or nah?

@@Shadowmere445 why did they need those men around the models if it wasn't even an croc that's alive?

She's dead

@@Alexandra-pn2cj wtf

@@LudmilaRamirez7 I forgot I even commented this don't know what I was thinking

@@Alexandra-pn2cj HAHAHAHA LMAO

@@-moon3273 :)

“ralax”

That cocodrile look like on drugs

@@therockgirl15 Exactly. The poor crocodile was definitely drugged up.

@@therockgirl15 yeah, they definitely sedated it.

@@addkeifspsdcvl honestly! Never any concrete critique. It's always "your aura" "your energy" "your vibe"

At the start the croc was real, but it was completely fake for the entire photoshoot. The keepers were just there to simulate that the croc was real

@@melissas8731 WHAT??? That's so dumb: I guess they do anything for views and ratings huh

And more ethical

@@gloriaxie8395 its a taxidermy croc, for a crocodile to lift up it's head for 8 hours is completely unnatural and unrealistic, even if it was "sedated" that would make it's muscles even weaker and less likely to hold up it's head

Mary said “Bish, pick someone else. Cause it’s ain’t gonna be me”.

I hope Mary gets to retire soon or get a vacation

They literally made her look like she was just thrown in just to be more expensive, she should just retire and live in a nice sanctuary

ohmygod! i didn't even consider the possibility of sedatives!!! that's so terrible not only because its unnecessary, but also because reptiles and amphibians are notoriously difficult to correctly dose with sedatives. Watching vet shows has led me to see multiple examples of reptiles dying after needing to be under anesthesia for a procedure.

Apparently the crocodile in the actually photo shoot was a taxidermy Croc. No real crocodile would have their head up for that long or not rest in a body of water somewhere. Besides, Crocodiles are quite aggressive compared to other reptiles of its genus.

@@lunarlove1444 I know they are aggressive, but I thought they would have sedated/trained it. They used real used real spiders(which were taurantuas and not deadly) but they also fed a bear in that episode a marshmallow using their mouths, so I wouldn't put it past the show to use a real croc

Everyone was with a shocked face... They're so harsh with her... And she was almost crying...

Wasn't she considered a "plus size" model too?? If plus sized models aren't allowed to have a tiny bit of a tummy then why the heck even have them?

But she was so right!!

"We look at you and we wonder, does he really want to be here? We ask ourselves, who is he? But you eyes are dead and your styling is not modely"

I LOVED Keenyah they were awful to her.

Agree

Hectic... This is disgusting.

If they called Keenyah an elephant I wonder what they would have called me 🤣😂 Cos keenyah’s body is Fab

And it’s sad because Keenyah recently said in her interview with Oliver Twixt that the reason she had been gaining weight was because, though she didn’t realize it at the time, she was a stress eater and the show as a whole was incredibly stressful on her mental health and she wasn’t sure how to properly deal with it at such a young age.

Flashbacks of Jefree Star come to mind when he did his new campaign with the croc. I was like......why?

It’s all fun and games until someone losses a leg

@@greenunicorn9908 no thats the fun part

Especially wild animals. Shooting with dogs and cats, bunnies or what not, totally chill as long as it's done in good conditions. But wild animals, just let them be.

Ppl make then props because they are more beautiful

And she was shocked when she got fired

Agree she's a pretty terrible person in general, she thinks being genuinely mean to people is "being honest", which is such a crock.

Janice was awful - cruel, rude, bitter. The judges in general were rude, demeaning, cruel, and petty.

And she looked drunk af, like the can't sit straight.

She was brought on to be the Simon Cowell of the panel

The strength you have in this comment is amazing tbh. Well done for getting this toxic shows standards out!!

Well done! I'm proud of you!

Thicc thighs save lives, girl! 👏

Congratulations on your recovery. I'm a recovering bulimic myself.

@@crystalmichellef3rg23 congratulations on your recovery journey as well! Stay strong!

It's ridiculous. She's not even overweight, she is freaking slim and toned. Normal belly fat! Like they were saying any fat at all is bad 🙄 Utterly ridiculous!!

Yeppp. I was a teenager when I started watching the show, like literally 13, and am 30 now. I spent a decade of my life hating my body, from 13 to about the same age you are now. I never saw any outside confirmation that tall, broad-shouldered, fat and muscular women can be attractive. And at that age, I didn't recognize the strength of my body. Just its bigness. And big was fat and fat was bad. I felt miserable when I was the fattest person in a group, and I later learned that I would misjudge and think I was bigger than I was. I would freak out on stairs when someone came up behind me because I was afraid they'd think I was fat and slow, then get winded trying to walk quicker without breathing audibly. And the disordered eating. That was a big thing for a long time. I don't know how it happened still, but one day it was like a switch flipped and I was able to see my body positively for the first time in my adult life. I think the rise of the body positivity movement definitely helped. Learning about anti-fat bias in medical research and practice. Listening to proud fat people who won't apologize for their bodies. Remaking the show from an actually body positive standpoint would be so cool to see.

Yep, I was one of them.

exactly

Damn never thought of this

Tyra is really gonna critic that girl, but have you seen her on Dancing with the Stars?? Karma striked back!!

Y'all... I could see how the whole vibe of the video changing and getting heavier and heavier and... I just think this is the worst ep of antp.... I'm so... I can't even describe how awful and disturbed I felt while seeing the girls faces... Everyone was shocked.... This episode should be banned from existence... I can't...

​@@absolute-creature I think it is good that this episode is existing. Not for the models but to show what awful, true personality is standing behind the judges and what they actually want to say. This shows how some celebs actually feel and it shows their true personality. It's good to know. Talking about body positivity and then doing this???? Are they serious? Why are they even judges? When they want to bash someone verbaly because they have problems themselves, they should go to therapy. They should seriously think about what their way of portraing young wemen is doing to their lives. They can cause a trauma to them. I know people would say "then they shouldn't go to this show". True, but you don't have to be mean.... The show would be so much more interesting to watch if they would react like normal human beings....

Tyra who has had at least two nose jobs...

Most models don't have a big chest like tyra. So do they tell her its unacceptable? Do they tell her we had to retouch your photos? No. Yet she comes for everyone. Yes flat stomachs are what the industry wants but as it is said give constructive criticism not bash them.

@@pinkheart315 man have you heard her crying about how hard it was for her when she was a size 0 and she had a booty so she still wasn't skinny enough? she is like the quintessential woman who makes it to the top and pulls the ladder up behind her. she's reaped attention and sympathy for her own experiences as a model and then turns around and perpetuates the same behaviors on the girls she claims to mentor, all while bragging about how empowering and inclusive she it. the lack of self awareness...well lets just say her attempt at a singing career wasn't her only instance of delusions of grandeur

@@recklessmermaidExactly! Its sad. After how she has struggled to being a model. You would think she would be more understanding but nope. She is only understanding to herself sadly🤷‍♀️

@@pinkheart315 she found success as a model as a young teenager. She doesn't have much real life perspective. I'm sure she would get jealous of the younger models because that is all she knows.

Tyra is a very popular model in terms of recognizability. However, she doesn't have as much respect in the high fashion industry as people would expect. She's more of a commercial model/entrepreneur. I don't see fashion photographers or many legendary designers naming her as a muse. She doesn't have the same respect as Cindy, Linda, Naomi etc.

"Have they seen zebras before"

Same here

The judges need to see them more than the models. They should be embarrassed by the their behaviour

The model lifestyle is already horrible to begin with, their eating habits are scary, they don't eat the proper nutrients

@@screamingbanshee1282 yes there’s no need to add stuff and demoralise them.

Sometimes models, especially runway models, go days without water before an event or shoot, its SO unhealthy

Oh, honestly, I crack up whenever I think of the lotion lol

Someone else just pointed this out....lol

Apparently she was sedated

Yep, their campaign ran for several years basically likening people's dry skin to that of a croc.

I remember. They had a commercial of an alligator or croc wondering through the background as a woman moisturized her hands....lol

So they used a crocodile in a country where we don’t even get gators 😂😂😂 (south Africa). I’m dead 😂😂

I was literally just scrolling through the comments Wondering the same thing

yeah wtf

When? i didn't see it

@@betharramrojas8051 7:15 I think~

@@betharramrojas8051 7:15

I thought it was just drugged out of its mind.

@@caitthecat Same I thought it must be super drugged at first since I have seen crocs before and they wouldn't just stay still with people leaning on them etc.

Makes sense, one of the models literally fell on the crocodile and it didn’t move!

Yeah when I saw the model fall on the croc and it didn’t even flinch I thought it HAD to be dead, there’s no way a croc wouldn’t react to having people that close and touching it

i knew there was something fishy about it

Wanna talk about someone projecting listen to Janice, they way she treats those girls is deplorable

@@batmanrobin2011 Janice is disgusting!

@@batmanrobin2011 Janice never claimed to be the the inclusive body positivity queen Tyra pretended to be. Janice's whole thing was she was the "mean judge". And apparently when the cameras were off was more supportive and kinder to them than Tyra

I don't like tossing the word 'misogynist' around too much for no reason but Tyra is absolutely a bona fide misogynist. The pure delight she gets at demeaning and abusing women other than herself is intense. It's like constant revenge for them daring to exist.

My blood boils as a proud disabled person when I think of how she kept calling Winnie Harlow, who has vitiligo, a "panda" even after Winnie asked her to stop and said that her bullies had called her that as a kid. The ableist, fat-shaming hypocrisy!

@@janeeyre1990 Yes I remember that and then they turned it around on Winnie after she asked them to stop to make it seem like she was overreacting. They are such gaslighting narcissists.

I’m grad I never had access to this show when I was a kid.

Same ☹️

Same

I used to watch this with my mom as a kid, but my mom would actively disagree with Tyra saying that kind of stuff and try to make sure I didn't take it to heart.

I went the opposite route :( I was like "I never want to be like that" because of how bad tyra and the others made people feel and I gained so much weight when I was younger, working on it now though!! Hope things stay well for you too.

Exactly! Plus she literally can be on her cycle it's not her fault shes bloated it's worst of all that Tyra was a model she knows what is like and she makes these girls go through that instead of changing the industry for new generation of models. She gets all in her feelings when people mention her weight damn hypocrite I use to watch this show when I was younger I also use to never miss an episode of the Tyra show I can't Believe I would rush home just to watch her stupid talk show I regret being a fan of her terrible shows giving her ratings. I think tyra is jealous that the model is young in her prime shes now a thing of the past

It’s funny how we normalized terrible behavior but grew up to be people that spoke our minds and stick up for everything.

Keenya was flipping gorgeous. Oliver Twixt had her on his live a few weeks ago and she's even more beautiful

Girl, is it you in your pfp? If Is it so, can we talk about how gorgeous your hair is?? Ormigoshi you're so pretty!!!

@@JUJU-._.- Exactly, and I didn't think she even look that bloated anyway! She is already runway model thin. Even if she wasn't, I don't understand why models have to be so thin. People of all weights are beautiful and most people have a little bit of a belly anyway.

They were doing this whole season was making fun of that girl for gaining like 10lbs before the show started. So they talked about her weight at every turn. I felt so bad for her. If that wasn't the context of why they chose elephant it would have been great :) they are amazing creatures

And smart!

@@LaCrownedGamer it’s crazy how she isn’t even fat as they are implying. i just be over it

I think elephants are beautiful. They really did her dirty with it.

Here's the thing the industry before is different from the industry now. During this season, skinniness is important and the fashion industry were more into the thinspiration models so models had to fit the clothes. Keenyah is gaining a lot of weight which was bad since she's not that fat but she's gaining weight. Model agents can't just make money of models who can't fit a designer size.

Ikr... She was almost crying... Her eyes... Ugh I hate this show so much, she had to deal with body shaming alllll along this season... And same here, I grew up thinking that Tyra was that motherly figure, and that she was prepping the girls for the real world, and yaddayaddayadda.... They manipulated an entirely audience made of majority young teens... So dis gus ting

Tbh it was the show that made me interested in modeling again and lose 30 pounds. Granted, I needed to get fit, but I went to the extreme because of the standards in the industry.

I know, so sad 😞😓😥

I was offended for her 🙄😒😡

Certainly!

Love the profile pic

Janice was the worst. You're spot on, she got so much work done trying to look young and hot again but she's salty af. One time Tyra told her "you're the reason girls are shoving their fingers down their throats every day"

I remember Janice had her own model show for a while and the only bit I remember of it is when she was screaming at a girl saying how fat and horrible she was, then made the girl try on her (Janice's) skirt to show her how she was fat and couldn't fit in it...but she put it on fine. I think Janice still somehow managed to stick to her guns and say the poor girl was massive

Im pretty sure Janice was coked out of her mind at this point.

@@spoiledmilk8888 That's rich coming from Tyra since she was also pretty toxic to these girls.

Actually I heard from some antm contestents that she was actually nice off camera and helpful

exactly. antm could have been the perfect platform to actually make a difference, but she didnt bother.

tyra is the kind of person to think "because i suffered through this, so should you", instead of trying to make stuff better for the people who come after you.

Thank you

No one said that Keenyah was fat. She gained a considerable amount of weight in a short time frame, which is incredibly unprofessional for a model. Models' measurements, weight, and height are front and center on every page in their portfolio so they MUST keep up with those numbers. If you knew anything about the fashion industry you would know this. ANTM was no more toxic than the modelling industry itself; the show just happened to give the world a glimpse into the experience of a top model, which turned most people away.

The person above me is delusional and has believed the lies that ANTM has spread

Especially when she ran a camp. T-zone. For teen girls. You’re practically bullying grown women on tv, but saying something else behind the scenes.

@@malaysiafreelon3232 and her being sexually harassed on set? Is that not toxic? When they blamed her for not telling off the guy in a “playful” way instead of setting him straight? Don’t cape for a show that has abused countless women.

@@malaysiafreelon3232 you keep posting the same thing forgetting Trya claimed her show would be a step towards the modeling industry regarding stuff such as height and weight. So it's very hypocritical of her and others supporting the show and what she said.

it's probably sedated, which is fucked up

well reptiles do actually lay still A LOT tho and pretty musch only move during feeding time. But they could have sedated it for safety

I'm gonna be honest i doubt they sedated the crocodile, crocodiles are really docile when they have eaten. Especially because she is in captivity and has most probably been around people all her life. I'm South African so I'm speaking from experience. The men near the crocodile has probably been her handlers so they know her mannerisms.

But still i wouldnt want inexperienced people working with a predator. Especially where she fell on her

Crocodiles don't move. There's a crocodile farm near me and they literally sit in the same spot for hours on end

Totally

And thats what they get! wrinkles 😂😂😆

100% it made no sense whatsoever. The costumes were unflattering and bazaar, the editing was so overdone and it just didn’t suit the branding of the product. If I were in the marketing team, I would have a crocodile next to the bottle on a plain background with the words “dry skin?” And call it a day

@@madeleineyeo4949 they should hire you!

I completely agree with you all.

Sooooooo trashy and soooooo cheap!

Oh for real!! But i also remember them saying they wanted to be unique and stand out from those boring normal photo shoots and you know make them prepared for anything. But like, this wasn’t it girl. I will never forgive the terrible body paint job they gave them in this shoot. I just won’t. The models did great, but their outfits and bady paint was just god awful

this is a huge reason my ed started. So glad i found a comment that advocates this.

Same! I wanted to be skinny soooo skinny because I wanted to be a model. Back then they would have to look SICK become models

I just want to thank you for your comment, I was a teenager when this show first aired and was also already struggling with disordered behaviors and Tyra's claim that this was going to be a revolutionary show and change the modeling world I was actually excited to finally have a show to watch that I thought would help me be more body positive(not a phrase that existed back then)and instead it ended up sending me spiraling down an even darker rabbit hole that I ended up developing full blown anorexia on top of my already rampant bulimia. Because of this asinine show I discovered the same online communities of pro ana/mia that you did and I can honestly say it completely destroyed my life for far too long. I am now very much so involved in the true body positivity movement which became of the utmost importance to me when I became an aunt to 3 beautiful girls(and then eventually also my nephews too)I did not in any way want them to see what I was doing to myself and think they should do the same. Nope nope nope. Tyra is a liar and a hypocrite and all the judges are just as bad. It is sickening and I am shocked to learn that they brought this show back (although I believe it is now gone for good? Praise the gods!) I sincerely hope all of them are disgusted by their behavior on this show but I seriously doubt they give a sh*t. Anyhow, again, thank you.

Thank you for talking about this. I was a 17yr Bulimic, 4yrs in recovery. My lil sis is a 19yr anorexic, almost 2yrs in recovery. We both were heavily influenced in our family, childhood, and this show highlighted it as well. All of it caused a constant battle with ourselves and extremely toxic self talk. We both have daughters now and it pushed us both to get help, get healthy and work on healing ourselves, cuz we don't want our kids to struggle in the same ways. I hope your doing well hun and wish you the best.