‘ANTM’ Model Blasts Tyra Banks As A ‘Narcissist’ And ‘Slimy Snake’

Former “America’s Next Top Model” contestant Lisa D’Amato isn’t holding back when it comes to Tyra Banks, branding the iconic supermodel a “narcissist” and firing off warnings about the upcoming Netflix docuseries exploring the show’s place in pop culture history.

Banks has been under fire since audiences began rewatching old seasons of “America’s Next Top Model” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many social media users called Banks and the producers out for often featuring problematic challenges and for harshly criticizing the contestants’ bodies and personal features.

In the new Netflix docuseries “Reality Check,” Tyra Banks admitted she went “too far” but seemed to place some of the blame for the show’s outrageous antics on its fans, which led to even more pushback across platforms.

Speaking with TMZ, “America’s Next Top Model” winner Lisa D’Amato warned potential viewers of “Reality Check” that Banks is a producer on the upcoming series and will try to “soften the truth” of what really went on behind the scenes.

While Banks is not listed as a producer, D’Amato said, “She’s a producer,” before branding her a “narcissist” who won’t take real accountability for the harm she’s allegedly caused people because she doesn’t know how.

“If she was really upset about it, then she wouldn’t still be making millions of dollars because this same franchise is still be licensed in other countries around the globe,” D’Amato said.

And her bold comments didn’t stop there. She went further, blasting Banks as a “slimy little snake.”

Elsewhere during her conversation with TMZ, D’Amato claimed the only reason Banks inked a deal with Netflix was that the former Victoria’s Secret model allegedly caught wind that she and other “ANTM” contestants had signed on to be part of a tell-all on the E! Network in March 2026.

D’Amato said the two productions would differ. Netflix would likely focus on on-camera behavior, whereas the E! network would focus on the “psychological warfare that they did to us behind the scenes.”

According to The Blast, Banks will star in “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model,” premiering on February 16, 2026. The series is said to be reflecting on the modeling competition show’s “complicated history.”

In the teaser, Banks addresses some of the backlash, admitting that she “knew I went too far.” She added, “It was very, very intense, but you guys were demanding it, so we kept pushing it, more and more and more.”

“Reality Check” is directed by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan—filmmakers known for their work on the streamer’s “American Manhunt: Osama Bin Laden”—and will feature Banks, co-creator Ken Mok, and former judges and contestants.

Social media users clapped back at Banks online after hearing her above comments, accusing the TV personality of “gaslighting.”

Season 1 winner Adrianne Curry, however, had different feelings about the series, according to The Blast.

In a social media post, the former reality star called the pushback against Banks and the reality series “absurd.”

She expressed her gratitude for the series and blasted people for “psychoanalyzing” the show “over 20 years later.”

Curry also explained why she wasn’t part of the Netflix series, saying she doesn’t “trust” TV producers and hoped to avoid extra attention.

The Netflix docuseries won’t be the first time that Banks has discussed the backlash against her. At a March 2025 event, Banks fired back at critics, saying she built a show from the ground up to celebrate diversity in an industry that had very little of it.

“To show different beauties at a time when the world was like, ‘What? You casting that? And what? Was it that?’ A time when people in the fashion industry were telling me, ‘You putting the girls from the hood on your show?’ I was like, ‘Why can the girl from the trailer park become a supermodel, but the girl that’s chillin’ in the park in the hood can’t?’ And we fought, and we struggled, and we made it happen,” she said.

She finished with a strong declaration: “… I refuse to have my legacy be about some stuff linked together on the internet when there were 24 [seasons] of changing the world.”