Bridget Armstrong

So Tiffany was, at that time, a single mother.

She talked about coming from a working class background.

She lived in, I think, a housing project with her grandmother.

She talked about sleeping on a mattress on the floor.

And so this was part of her storyline, right?

This girl comes from nothing.

This ghetto girl is on the show, and let's see if she can make it.

That's a part of her storyline.

But apparently...

Tyra brought that up in the confrontation and said, like, what are you going to do, go back home and sleep on the mattress on the floor with your baby?

And that's a really low blow anyway.

But it's particularly low when you think about the fact that Tyra is making millions of dollars off of these girls.

And these girls are not even being compensated for their time on the show.

Most of them are not going to go on to have a career or opportunity in the modeling world.

So that scene got just really ugly and really personal.

Tyra likes to say that, you know, she admits she lost her cool.

She went too far.

But she likes to talk about it as if it was coming from a place of tough love.

that she really wanted Tiffany to win.

And I do think there's some truth in that, going back to Tyra's love of respectability.