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In Netflix’s America’s Next Top Model docuseries, supermodel Tyra Banks is no longer in control
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Tyra Banks at the Franca Fund Gala 2025 in Doha, Qatar, on Nov 23, 2025.
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Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK – The number of hats American supermodel Tyra Banks wore during her time on America’s Next Top Model (2003 to 2018) could make any woman topple over on the runway.
She was one of the reality modelling show’s creators, executive producers and judges. She was a celebrity host, a big sister-style mentor to a cast of aspiring models and an overall doyenne of commercial fashion who was a brand unto herself.
