Bridget Armstrong

And so you saw all the drama that happened when they weren't at a photo shoot.

Kind of.

Sometimes it was a disaster.

The Makeover episodes were my favorite.

I think they were a lot of fans' favorite, right?

Because you got to see these transformations that sometimes really were amazing, but you also got to see the meltdowns.

I'm a little overwhelmed.

I want to cry because the worst is already done.

A girl who's worn her hair long or is a pageant girl, right, gets a pixie cut.

You see a lot of botched hair color.

People who've never had hair extensions getting a full sew-in.

So it was like this mix of the fulfillment of seeing them blossom, but also this drama of people having to go through this change on camera.

No.

So a lot of people, I don't think, realized Top Model went on as long as it did.

It's 24 seasons.

So I think most of us, a lot of fans that started in the early days, watched maybe the first 10 or 15 seasons in the early 2000s.

I was one of those fans.

But in 2020, people started rewatching the series from the beginning.

As people started pointing out some of the really shocking and sometimes disturbing stuff that happened on the show, I went back and watched some of those episodes.

I don't know if you remember, but on TikTok, people were pointing out things that I remembered them as being a part of the show, but we were talking about them in a different context.