You can't please everybody, no matter how
"flawsome" you are, just ask Tyra Banks.
By most standards, her career has been a roaring
success: she's successfully managed to parlay
a lucrative modeling portfolio into a glamorous
media empire.
Still, there's no shortage of celebs who have
a bone to pick with the America's Next Top
Model mastermind, even though we already know
what Banks has to say to her haters:
"Kiss my fat ass."
By the time their doomed daytime talk show
FABLife premiered, co-creators Banks and Chrissy
Teigen had been plagued by rumors that a feud
was brewing.
In 2015, Page Six reported the two were "barely
speaking" to one another.
A source told the publication,
"You never put two supermodels on the same
show together."
The insider further claimed that alleged tensions
were sparked by their ten-year age difference.
Then in 2016, Radar Online reported that Teigen
had banned Banks from attending her baby shower.
A source told the tab at the time,
"All the rumors of behind-the-scenes drama
are true.
Those two absolutely hate each other!"
Apparently, eye contact had become a challenge,
too.
The insider added,
"Tyra never even looked at Chrissy when they
weren't filming.
It was tense."
However, Teigen appeared exasperated by the
suggestion there could be animosity with Banks,
taking to Twitter to say,
"I dunno if you guys know how bosses work,
but if Tyra and I were fighting as hard as
you're saying, I would be the one off the
show."
A compelling enough argument, except that
soon after she made the comment, everybody
was off the show, as FABLife was canceled
in 2016 after just one season.
It's the meltdown that inspired a million
memes.
When Top Model cycle 4 contestant Tiffany
Richardson didn't seem to be bothered after
being booted from the show, well, it pushed
Banks over the edge.
"Be quiet!
That's what is wrong with you.
STOP IT!"
In an interview with BuzzFeed News in 2017,
Richardson claimed there was plenty of footage
that wound up on the cutting room floor, and
it was, quote, "1,000 times worse."
"When my mother yells like this, it's because
she loves me.
I was rooting for you we were all rooting
for you HOW DARE YOU."
Richardson said that, in front of the entire
cast and crew, Banks screamed,
"You can go back to your house and sleep on
your mattress on the floor with your baby!"
Regarding Banks' breakdown, Richardson added,
"It was so over-the-top for no reason...[She]
needed them ratings to go up or something...I
don't think she gave a f--- about none of
us."
However, in 2019, Richardson had completely
changed her tune.
She told Live About that she understands the
supermodel was only speaking from a place
of deep care, admitting,
"We've talked since.
Tyra yelled at me because she loved some Tiffany...She
felt like I was giving up that week.
And it hurt her...She felt like she was helpless."
"Learn something from this!"
Former Top Model judge Janice Dickinson has
bad-mouthed Banks on countless occasions since
she parted ways with the show.
According to the Huffington Post, Dickinson
called Banks fat during a March 2007 appearance
on the Today show.
Then in 2012 in FOX's Pop Tarts column, she
called Banks:
"Soulless...heartless, [and] cold."
Asked if she'd ever bury the hatchet with
Banks, she replied,
"Not for all the tea in China."
Yikes.
According to People, Dickinson expressed regret
at one point, telling Oprah that she "was
very hurt" after being sacked from Top Model,
but she later reignited their apparent feud.
In March 2017, she told The Domenick Nati
Show that she and Tyra were "never girlfriends,"
and took a swing at Banks' gig on America's
Got Talent.
"Do you think Tyra has a good enough sense
of humor to make witty comments throughout?"
"No."
"No?"
"No."
Winnie Harlow might be a top model now, but
the former America's Next Top Model contestant
doesn't believe her time on the reality show
got her there, and she didn't hesitate throwing
some major shade Banks' way in 2018 on Watch
What Happens Live!
"So I really started after the show, 'cause
that really didn't do anything for my career.
Which, it doesn't do anything for any model's
career, realistically."
Banks ended up visiting the show herself and
had a few things to say about the former Cycle
21 contestant.
"I discovered her on Instagram, so, and she's
on this show, so what do you think that means?"
Banks went on to say that she still has love
for all the Top Model contestants.
"They're all my babies.
Even the ones that act out are still my babies."
After Banks' appearance, Harlow stuck by her
comments.
According to People, she claimed in a comment
on Instagram that there had been a lot of
"reality TV stigma" and no agency would touch
her after Top Model.
Stand-up comic Ryan Singer never appeared
on The Tyra Banks Show, and that was probably
for the best, seeing as one of his most popular
bits is a long-winded monologue dissecting
why he can't stand his, quote, "nemesis of
all time, Tyra Banks."
"This is why I hate Tyra Banks, it's a logical
argument, so please hear me out."
Singer couldn't tolerate Banks' habit of putting
on fat suits to supposedly, in his words,
"raise awareness of how difficult it is to
be overweight in America today."
He pointed out that while it may sound noble
at first, Banks is...
"...a supermodel with a show that creates
other supermodels."
"That would be like a hunter putting on a
deer suit trying to raise awareness for how
difficult it is to be a deer nowadays."
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