Random Behind-The-Scenes Stories From 'America's Next Top Model' That Prove This Show Is Out Of Control (15 items)

(#12) Prospective Contestants Undergo Psych Evals And IQ Tests

Prospective contestants have to undergo lots of tests. They get blood work done - AKA drug tests - and are screened psychologically, executive producer Ken Mok confirmed. Potential ANTM candidates also undergo IQ tests and get assistants who call multiple times a day to check on them.
(#5) Angelea Preston Was Stripped Of Her 'ANTM' Crown When It Was Discovered She Used To Be An Escort

Angelea Preston won ANTM's Season 17, but producers took her title back, instead giving second-place finisher Lisa D'Amato the crown. Why? Because she had once worked as an escort.
Preston sued for $3 million and claimed that contestants are treated really poorly. They allegedly had to film for 16 or 17 hours per day without refreshment breaks. One time, Preston suffered a panic attack and no one allowed her medical attention.
Preston told The Daily Mail:

"I used to admire Tyra so much. I wanted to be like her. I don't want to be like her now. Tyra was nonexistent. The only time we saw Tyra was at panel. Tyra never came in to talk to us personally. When the cameras stopped rolling it's like she's a stranger."
(#4) Season 10 Contestants Caused $500,000 Worth Of Damages To Their NYC Loft

In 2008, ANTM contestants trashed the super-expensive loft they were living in as part of the competition. Located in Tribeca, the apartment was worth $6 million, and the girls caused $500,000 worth of damage. They irreparably damaged a $15,000 chandelier, got ketchup and coffee all over the walls, and ruined the fancy wood floors. The landlord threatened to sue.
(#2) Cycle One Winner Adrianne Curry Was Never Paid

Adrianne Curry won the first season of America's Next Top Model. But the competition didn't live up to its promises, she claimed.
On her blog, Curry wrote. "We were promised a Revlon contract on my season and a contract with wilhelmina [sic]."
She added:

"When I met with Revlon, they informed me they never planned on using the winner, whoever she may be, for any ads. They hired me for 15k to model makeup in a room with 10 execs in it to honor said contract. Wilhelmina then informed me they didnt [sic] want me to be successful in any way to spite top model. They bragged how they’d push Elyse (also signed with them) and not me. I reached out to Tyra and Top Model, desperate to get out of my contract and get advice as I was not being given any castings, etc by an agency that wanted me to fail. CRICKETS. Phone calls ignored."
(#7) Photographer Yu Tsai Made Very Offensive Comments Towards Chantelle

In 2014, photographer and ANTM consultant Yu Tsai said something really awful. He dubbed ANTM contestant Chantelle Brown-Young a "panda" because she has a skin condition called vitiligo. Brown-Young stood up for herself and told the creative consultant just how rude he was being. He sort of apologized, but beautiful Brown-Young had the last laugh.

Now going by the name Winnie Harlow, she has become a super-successful model who has inspired countless other women with vitiligo.
(#11) The Show Isolates Eliminated Models In Hotels

In an ANTM Reddit AMA, ex-contestant Sara Longoria revealed that eliminated models are sequestered in hotels. She wrote, "We're housed in a separate location :) probably my favorite part of everything now that I think of it," adding, "I mentioned before that the eliminated girls stay in a hotel until filming moves overseas and then they fly home."