Bridget Armstrong

But the more we spoke with people and the more we really looked into it, I sort of realized the curse part is undeniable.

And the curse, it's not just on the models.

It's not just about Tyra.

It's not even just about us, the audience, right?

And it's not even just about...

The treatment the models faced when they were working on the show.

It's what happened to them after.

It was the stigma.

So we talked to models who, winners, like we talked to several winners of their season, who once they left the show, they were signed with whatever agency was the agency sponsoring the season.

But they would go in and they found that the agencies didn't know what to do with them.

These days, if you go to a talent agency, they might have a division that works with reality TV stars, that works with folks who are influencers.

But back in these days, they didn't have that.

These women were not seen as models because, one, the way they entered the industry was not through traditional means.

And two, the stuff they were doing on Top Model was just so unrealistic that the agencies didn't take them seriously.

Another thing that I thought, I didn't think about this part, and several models told me that they experienced this.

And one of the models, Lisa, actually had modeled before

she was on America's Next Top Model and found that once she got off the show, she couldn't go back and book the same job she'd done before because now she's known for the reality show.

So while you're trying to be in an ad selling toothpaste, right, you're distracting from the toothpaste because everybody, oh, that's Lisa from Top Model and they're not looking at the product.

So clients didn't want to work with them either.

So Joni and Dani, Dani went on to win her cycle.