Bridget Armstrong

And so I would go back and watch like, wow, I remember Robin from season one.

Robin was the only plus size model on that season.

I remembered her, but I didn't remember...

how poorly she was treated until I went back and watched around 2020.

So when you started making your podcast, who did you talk to first?

So we were working on this project in conjunction with another docuseries.

It's actually coming out March 11th.

It's about Top Model.

It's called Dirty Rotten Scandals.

So there were a few interviews that they'd done with some of the models.

And so I jumped in and started talking to them, get a gauge of like how they feel about things, what happened to them.

And it sort of laid the framework.

One of the things that we did

two episodes on was the psychiatric evaluations.

And so I found out about those from talking to these models.

And as I started talking to more models, they all had a very similar experience.

And then some of them had a really disturbing experience where they found out that like the psyche valve was being used to produce them on the show, right?

And so it was things like that where we're talking and I'm seeing the through line.

Absolutely.

So when we started production on the program, I was a little resistant, to be honest, to using that title at first because I was like, oh, I'm a fan and I want this to be as much about the negative impact as it is about the fandom and why we liked it.