America's Next Top Model alum Sarah Hartshorne didn't hold back while discussing her experience on the show, and she went as far as to compare the competition series to a "cult."
In her new book, You Wanna Be On Top? A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation and Not Becoming America’s Not Top Model,Hartshorne recalled the strict rules that the contestants' had to follow.
She alleged that the show began to “feel like a cult, from the undisclosed filming locations in international waters to not being allowed to speak for days at a time.” Hartshorne continued, “And the reality is … it was a cult. I got suckered into a cult.”
Hartshorne then pondered what she would say to Tyra Banks now, and she insisted that she didn't hold a grudge against the show's creator, judge and host.
"It was one of many who were traumatized by the actions of Tyra and the producers. But still, I am grateful,” she wrote in the book, according to Us Weekly. “So, here’s what I would say: Thank you. Pay me.”
Hartshorne rose to fame when she competed on cycle 9 of ANTM in 2007. She was the only plus-sized model on the season, and ultimately ended the show in eighth place.
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Back in 2020, Banks, 51, looked back on some of her regrets regarding the show. "I was still a model at the time, not a retired model yet, and still operating in this world that had so many rules,” she said when asked about the criticism of the show during an appearance on The Tamron Hall Show. “It was this awful push and pull that we all had.”
After noting that there were “different categories of things we messed up," Banks said she was "trying to push boundaries but was also torn to try to make sure that these girls could work, so it was a balance."
“It was like, ‘Oh, break beauty barriers,’ but yeah, I can break them all I want on the show, but they’ll graduate from the show, and they won’t work," she added.
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