Bridget Armstrong

Once she left Top Model, she didn't book jobs.

And she said she ran into Tyra years later.

And Tyra pretty much admitted to her that she knew she wasn't getting work and she didn't do anything about it.

And you see that story over and over and over.

You know, having a haircut is not as extreme as having all your teeth shaven down.

But there were women on the show who never had short hair.

And we know how much...

Hair is tied to, like, femininity and beauty, right or wrong, right?

And so to, like, take these 18-year-old girls who've never had their hair cut that short, cut their hair, and then send them home on that same episode, which happened more than once on this show, it's just cruel.

And then once they sort of leave the top model set, you know, they've been told that this haircut will make them edgy.

This haircut will make them a model.

or this makeover, or this, you know, whatever.

And once they got out into the world, they were rejected.

I had at least one model tell me her hair was cut off, and she went to an agency that said, we'll sign you when you grow your hair back.

So it's like they were being told stuff that was strictly for, I think, our entertainment, and really had nothing to do with their ability to book jobs.

Yeah.

I think with Dani's case in particular, and I can't say for sure, Dani was a Southern Black girl, right?

And we get into this on my podcast, Tyra's relationship specifically with the Black contestants on her show.

Tyra has a thing with respectability, I think, and Blackness.

And I think for her, Dani's gap...