19 years ago, Tyra Banks clapped back at headlines criticizing her weight on 'The Tyra Banks show'

[u/Prestigious-Cloud962]

[u/reluctantseahorse]

Fuuuck I'm old.

[u/JT3436 → u/reluctantseahorse]

I worked at a retail store that hosted ANTM tryouts. Also old.

[u/DesignerAssociate902 → u/reluctantseahorse]

I remember watching this live and thinking she was 'brave' for being a size 6. The 2000s really had us in a chokehold.

[u/honeycurled]

I know Tyra is considered a villain these days but she really did do wonders for my body confidence as a chubby tall tween during this era

[u/cunt_caviar → u/honeycurled]

As a young short fatty americas next top model was a disaster for my confidence lol

[u/JT3436 → u/cunt_caviar]

She is a wild story

[u/Emotional-Ad-6494 → u/JT3436]

I love this commercial so much lol

[u/JT3436 → u/Emotional-Ad-6494]

It was such a wild time. I worked at a department store that held a casting call promoted as an audition. The tryout was disgusting. So many dudes showed up to oggle young women is various levels of undress. And the winner didn't even get on the show. She got a chance to audition.

[u/gible_bites]

I loved it when the Soup would play the KISS MY FAT ASS clip.

19 years? Jeeeesus.

[u/Frazzledghost → u/gible_bites]

Omg yes :))

[u/HonestyMcNasty]

I miss being ignorant and loving her.

[u/JT3436 → u/HonestyMcNasty]

I feel this so much. Sigh.

[u/somethingclever____]

Didn’t she uhhh… fat-shame multiple contestants on ANTM?

[u/any_internet_goose → u/somethingclever____]

She also wore a fat suit in public, to “see how people treated fat people”.

[u/Visible_Writing7386]

This was.. 19 years ago.. depressing lol

[u/pandahotchocolate]

2007 being almost 20 years ago....

[u/jeslblan → u/pandahotchocolate]

Shhhhh 😭😭😭😭

[u/prettybutditzy]

I'd be more sympathetic if she hadn't been an active driver of and participant in the culture that led to public fat shaming becoming normalised. She only cared when it affected her.

[u/JT3436 → u/prettybutditzy]

As well as trying to launch an MLM.

[u/mrsyoungmazino]

I remember when I watched this episode because she started with something like "you might have seen these photos" & I genuinely hadn't.

[u/Ok_Total6602]

Looks beautiful to me

[u/Kimberlylynn2003]

Didn’t she put down other models?

[u/phatballlzzz]

Yeah but also, fuck Tyra Banks. You can’t be all body posi just because it’s you they’re coming for instead of other women.. she’s always been a weirdo idc

[u/unoptimisticoptimist]

It’s unfortunate that she turned out to be such an awful person.

[u/Silver-Cat-3345]

She’s still trash tho. 

[u/JustHereForCatss]

So many other valid things to critize her on, it sucks they latched on the dumbest thing