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35 Times "America's Next Top Model" Immediately Made Me Say, "Right To Jail"

I don't think ANYONE wants to be on top now.

1. In cycles 14 and 17, when Angelea was disqualified for having briefly worked as an escort:

Angelea crying into the camera

2. In Cycle 4, when Kahlen had to pose in a grave shortly after she found out that her friend had died:

Kahlen posing in a grave

3. In Cycle 4, when they made Michelle believe she was suffering from a flesh-eating bacteria, but she actually had untreated impetigo:

Michelle getting examined at the doctor's office

4. In Cycle 8, when Jael had to pose as a corpse the week after her friend died of an overdose:

5. In Cycle 5, when Tyra Banks implied that Kim should tone down her lesbianness:

Kim talking to Tyra about being a lesbian

6. In Cycle 6, when Tyra ridiculed Danielle for not wanting to close the gap in her teeth:

Tyra making fun of Danielle's gap tooth

7. Then, in Cycle 15, the very same Tyra had Chelsey widen the gap between her teeth:

Chelsey getting her hair dyed blonde

8. In Cycle 4, when Keenyah was blamed for being inappropriately touched by a male model at a photo shoot:

Keenyah talking in a confessional

9. In Cycle 22, when Nyle — who's deaf — had to pose in the dark, which left him unable to sign or communicate with the photographer:

Nyle posing in a dark forest

10. Also in Cycle 3, when Amanda — who's legally blind — had to walk a dimly lit runway:

Amanda talking in a confessional

11. In Cycle 24, when Jeana was slut-shamed for posing in Playboy:

12. In Cycle 10, when Isis — the first transgender contestant on the show — was bombarded with ignorant and transphobic questions and comments:

Are you...all female?

13. In Cycle 10, when Tyra repeatedly mispronounced Katarzyna's name:

A contestant correcting Tyra on the pronunciation of her name

14. In Cycle 7, when Ginger was eliminated AFTER refusing to pose nude for a photo shoot:

Ginger talking to Mr. Jay about how she can't pose in the nude and Jay says it's going to affect her standing in the competition

15. In Cycle 6, when the contestants were forced to walk in dangerously high heals, which resulted in Danielle spraining her toe:

16. In Cycle 7, when Jaeda had to kiss a racist guy in a photo shoot:

Jaeda crying about a racist encounter during panel

17. In Cycle 6, when Danielle was hospitalized but left against medical advice in order to participate in a photo shoot:

Danielle riding an elephant

18. In Cycle 4, when Keenyah had to dress up as an elephant and pose as "gluttony" after gaining weight:

Keenyah posing with an alligator and holding a bottle of lotion

19. In Cycle 12, when London was eliminated because of her weight gain:

20. In Cycle 13, when the girls had to pose in a "biracial"-themed photo shoot:

A white contestant posing in blackface

21. On that subject, in Cycle 4, when the girls had to model as "different ethnicities" — some that involved brown- and blackface — for a photo shoot:

A white model getting painted brown

22. In Cycle 16, when Tyra made 14 girls think they were going home, but they were actually the top 14. And the top 14 they originally told were moving into the house were actually being sent home:

23. In Cycle 1, when the contestants were weighed on TV...and then their weights were TOLD TO ALL OF AMERICA:

Elyse, 5'10",  being weighed in front of everyone: "Terrific, 114"

24. In Cycle 3, when Cassie was told that her hips and thighs were too big, even though her disordered eating was something she discussed on the show:

Cassie looking sad

25. In ANTM: All Stars, where contestants posed in a Michael Jackson–themed photo shoot (yikes), which involved a few of the girls in blackface and brownface (yikes x 2):

26. In Cycle 21, when Yu Tsai refered to Chantelle (aka Winnie Harlow) as "panda." Chantelle lives with a skin condition called vitiligo, which is when patches of skin lose their pigment:

Yu Tsai saying to Chantelle, "When I gave you the nickname, it was to help you"

27. In Cycle 1, when Janice Dickinson told Shannon to go work at a "car factory or a bakery" because she didn't want to pose nude because of her religious beliefs:

Two models standing before the judges at panel

28. In Cycle 3, when Yaya was criticized for her "overbearing" need to "prove [her] Africanness" and was then forced to apologize:

Yaya standing before the judges

29. In Cycle 6, when Janice made Gina tell her who was bothering her in the house...and then yelled at her for ratting out her fellow model:

30. In Cycle 15, when Kayla was still forced to shoot a commercial with a man after disclosing to Jay Manuel that she had been sexually assaulted:

Kayla talking to Mr. Jay about her sexual assault

31. In Cycle 6, when Tyra pretended to faint and scared all the contestants:

32. In Cycle 7, when CariDee got hypothermia from posing in a freezing pool:

CariDee and Amanda floating in the pool

33. In Cycle 2, when Janice told the 18-year-old Catie that she looked like a "child prostitute":

34. In Cycle 24, when Tyra made Liberty dye her hair red because she "voted red" in the 2016 election. Liberty then began to criticize redheads everywhere:

35. Finally, in Cycle 8, when 50 Cent pushed Jael in the pool because she annoyed him: