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America’s Next Top Model was the Hunger Games of 2000s reality television — sometimes literally. Contestants endured tongue-lashings and survived makeovers that left them looking like fever dreams. They had unwanted orthodontic procedures and nightmare trips to the Italian countryside and were body shamed, encouraged to starve and humiliated on a regular basis. The girls were paid just $40 US a day on a series that was described as a “traumatic sleepaway camp” by former…
