The ‘Psychological Warfare’ Behind the Scenes of America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model. According to published on Monday, the environment fostered by Top Model host and executive producer Tyra Banks and her fellow producers was, in the words of one contestant, tantamount to “psychological warfare.”The Insider story, written by , recounted that Banks and fellow producers, including ANTM creator Ken Mok, exploited contestants emotionally and physically on the extremely popular reality competition series—which ran for 24 seasons from 2003 to 2018.