“Over 20 years ago, I created a show called ‘America’s Next Top Model,’” she said during her speech at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards last Thursday. Getty Images for ESSENCE ...

made the models pose in various tragic ways — car crashes, poisoning, electrocution — later deemed tasteless and disturbing. Tyra Banks herself delivered many of America’s Next Top Model‘s ...

Each season followed a new cycle of potential models as they compete in several challenges, runways and photo shoots to be deemed America’s Next Top Model. But the show also featured several ...

‘America’s Next Top Model’ was – and still is – iconic. We all want to be on top. The photo shoots were – and still are – iconic. The transformations models went through were jaw ...

Tyra Banks is aware of the criticism surrounding her long-running reality show America’s Next Top Model ... the show’s visibility for plus-size models. “And now my 51-year-old, dimpled ...