A lot of people I know are currently rewatching very old episodes of America’s Next Top Model. The reason? Well, a new three-part Netflix documentary is on its way—Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model—which promises to take us behind the scenes of what is possibly the most unhinged TV show of the aughts. But also, it just is and has always been as insanely addictive as it is toxic, from the bonkers makeovers and the bizarre feuds to the increasingly outlandish challenges. There truly is nothing else like it, and, for the sake of young women everywhere, I hope there never will be again.
Ahead of the new docuseries’s release on February 16, here’s a recap of the 32 most genuinely unbelievable things that happened on ANTM.
Literally everything Janice Dickinson said
From “Zip it, bitch, you’re dead in my book” to “She’s huge—she’s not going to be a top model,” no one made her feelings known quite as, er, colorfully as the now 70-year-old former model.