ANTM-Gewinnerin Adrianne Curry sagt, Tyra Banks‘ Verjüngungskur habe ihren Kopf „dauerhaft geschädigt“ und sie sei „teilweise kahl“ geworden, 22 Jahre später

> „It’s permanently damaged from that weave,“ Curry said of the current state of her scalp. „It was so painful. I remember [fellow contestant] Kesse on the show was trying to teach me how to itch it, but I didn’t know. I didn’t know any of this. Before that, she saw me [scratching it] with a fork.“

> Curry finished the video by alleging that „I think most of those makeovers were done just to torture us,“ and pointed out that she’d just trimmed her hair for one of the show’s photo challenges days prior, so the fact that they wanted to change her look again on the makeover episode shocked her.

Looking up Curry, Banks did the right thing.

I think the big disconnect is that a lot of reality show people think „this show is for us, to help us get a career or a shot at a contract“ or whatever. When that’s not at all what *any* of those shows are for.

Those shows are there to turn the contestants into entertainment for the audience. They don’t care *at all* about the modelling careers of the contestants. They just care that the rest of us want to tune in to see them doing whatever wild things they are forced to do each week in the name of that competition.

So she’s right in the end. Now her wording of them just wanting „to torture“ them isn’t accurate. They didn’t care what they did to them. They’d pamper them OR torture them or do anything anywhere in between, as long as it was good TV. It was entertainment, whatever the cost.

I read a memoire by one of the contestants called „You Wanna Be On Top,“ and it genuinely horrified me. They endured cult-like indoctrination before they even began filming to make sure these young women were too emotionally broken and terrified of being sued to stand up for themselves. Worth a read/listen.