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We Were 16 and Watching: The Damage of America’s Next Top Model
Imagine creating a show to dismantle the modelling industry to challenge its failures in body positivity, beauty standards and racial discrimination, only to birth a show that amplified and ordained those very things even more. I watched America’s Next Top Model religiously at 16. From 2003 onwards I was gripped, season after season. I never saw the undertones. I didn’t hear what was being said beneath the spectacle. Watching it back now, those undertones aren’t subtle, they’

DiNKUMDiARiES
Feb 173 min read
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