Ancient “America’s next top model“Contesting Yaya Dacosta recently revealed that she was “fully forgiven” Tyra Banks For the “trauma”, she endured during the shooting of the reality competition show in the early 2000s.
Banks, who created the show in 2003, has been under fire since 2020 after problematic clips of the show have resurfaced online.
During ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Awards, Tyra Banks delivered a speech during which she addressed the negative criticisms that she has received over the years on the way she has treated women on “Antm”. On Saturday March 15, 2025, Dacosta, one of the most recognizable names in the franchise, published an Instagram video concerning the words of her former boss and revealed that she had evolved.
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Tyra Banks says that she fought for diversity on the “next top model of America”
Banks, born and grew up in Inglewood, California, began to model at 15. She had a very successful career, becoming the first black woman to appear on the cover of popular publications, of which Sports Illustrated Swimsuit And Gq.
In 2003, the model created the television program “America’s Next Top Model”, in which budding models contributed in an interactive show to win a modeling contract, a magazine spread and a contract with a large brand of cosmetics.
The casts were diverse and often presented many women of color, as well as women of different heights and sizes. Banks, however, revealed that his decision to be inclusive has caused a lot of perspective.
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“To show different beauties at a time when the world was like:” What? ” Do you throw this? And what? Was it? A time when people in the fashion industry said to me: “Do you put the girls in the hood of your show? I said to myself: “Why can the daughter of the carriage park become a model, but the girl who cools in the park in the hood can’t?” And we fought, and we had trouble, and we did it, ”said Banks during the ESSENCE Rewards.
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Tyra Banks admits that she has not always understood correctly
Later, during her speech, Banks admitted that she and the production crew had not always “understood things” when filming the successful reality TV show. “I said a stupid sh-T,” she said. “But I refuse that my inheritance will be on certain things linked together on the Internet when there were 24 [seasons] to change the world. “”
Banks has been criticized for what many consider to be problematic behavior during his time as host of the show. The previous clips show the mannequin that makes fun of a woman’s gap, while others have white models posing in black. “We all evolve. We all improve each other. And I am so excited that I, and many of us, I opened this door so that others follow,” she said.
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Dacosta is aimed at video banks on social networks
Dacosta, who appeared in the third season of the show and arrived in second place, tackled Banks’ speech in a video she published on Instagram. In the long clip, the model who became an actress said that she felt “forced” to speak before saying that she had undergone “a trauma” during the shooting of the series.
The 42 -year -old man called the producers for their “manipulative modification and armament of the weaknesses of girls” and “catalyzing body dysmorphia with food disorders”. She also explained that the “most shocking” moments had not been broadcast “on television. However, the interpreter “Chicago Med” revealed that she had learned to “regulate my nervous system” by being in such an atmosphere.
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Dacosta has “fully forgiven” banks for the past
Elsewhere, in her video, Dacosta revealed that she had also attended the ESSENCE Rewards, but she missed Banks’s speech when she apologized to the toilet. However, she ran in the former host “America’s Got Talent” behind the scenes and said they had a “beautiful conversation”.
“I was so excited at the moment to walk towards her, to reach her hands and to greet her warmly, with gratitude, with love,” she shared. “Something that I would not have been capable of. The two places we have been in the past, we haven’t talked. Probably both pretended not to see each other. »»
Dacosta admitted that it was “excited” to see the banks before saying that the creator “Antm” did not offer “explicit apologies” for things that went wrong on the set of their show. Despite this, however, Dacosta was ready for the banks to know that she had healed her experience.
“You all, I held this woman, and when it was time for the hug, I held a little more. And I took a deep inspiration because I wanted her to feel what it is to be fully forgiven, appreciated and loved,” she said.
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Reports say that banks are difficult to work with
In the midst of the backlash banks received for old episodes “Antm”, she hosted “Dancing with the stars”. Meanwhile, reports have surfaced on the old model of Victoria’s Secret as a “nightmare” with whom to work.
Sources said that the mother was “disrespectful” towards the crew and gave “wild demands” before talking about her “toxic” energy. “The tensions are raised in the ballroom. Between the low notes, the styled epidemics and the constant management of the Tyra reaction, the producers are next to everything,” they revealed.
Banks left the series in 2023 and said Tmz She was ready to “focus on my business and my entrepreneurship, and to produce more television”.
