Tyra Banks Faces Backlash Over ANTM Lawsuit

A number of America's Next Top Model alums are calling out for what they say is hypocrisy after she sued for defamation over a docuseries about the show, claiming footage of an interview she gave was edited to portray her in an unflattering light.

Banks said in legal docs filed in  federal court Saturday that Netflix, which debuted Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model in February, selectively used about 16 minutes from a three-and-a-half hour interview she gave on April 18, 2025.

Netflix used footage manipulated 'to support a false and defamatory narrative unrelated to what she actually expressed,' lawyers for Banks said in a legal complaint reviewed by the Daily Mail.  

Model Jeana Turner, , told the Daily Mail Sunday she found 'troubling' an 'apparent double standard' from Banks, who she said strictly controlled how people on the show were presented in broadcasts.

'Contestants and participants associated with the franchise were often bound by contracts and legal restrictions that made it difficult, or impossible to pursue claims of misrepresentation or challenge how they were portrayed,' Turner said. 

The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Banks and Netflix for further comment on this story.  

Turner said that 'if editing and production manipulation are serious enough concerns to warrant a lawsuit when directed at Tyra, then they were serious concerns when contestants raised them as well.'