I think it came out when I was 12.
America's next top model.
Every conscious thought I've had about my body and sexuality and being a girl and how to eat has been guided by this show.
That was on until I was 28.
You went from an impressionable age to like young adult to like fully an adult and Tyra and the show were there every step of the way.
Yeah, Tyra was with me through puberty and my divorce.
And you can't say that about a lot of people.
A new documentary tries to reckon with the show's toxic legacy.
Do you think that Tyra Banks learned anything?
Feels anything about all this?
Who cares?
Like, she's like...
I don't know, maybe.
Do I think the man on the moon considers his moral obligation to me?
Not really.
The reality TV that made us.
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