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# The Best of Tyra Banks on ANTM: The Classic Years
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- Published: 2015-12-24T15:00:03.000Z
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## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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Don't ask me why the first few episodes look as if they were filmed using Barbara Walter's Special Forgiving Lens. ALSO don't ask me why Tyra is using the plastic strap used to hang her top from its hanger as an actual strap.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1096.jpg)

THAT SKIRT IS JUST FRINGE!

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1102.png)

And suddenly, HD exists! Just in time to see that Tyra is wearing something that is literally tied to her neck. Also, yes, this was during the period when she wore a necklace that said, "TY TY." She gave said necklace to the contestants because of course they want to wear her name on their person at all times.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1106.png)

FYI: When you binge-watch ANTM, you will also find yourself saying, "is that her bra? Yes," like, A LOT.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1113.png)

This was NOT a costume. SHE'S JUST WEARING THIS. The early aughts were so weird, you guys.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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This was apparently during a time where Tyra did not want to be able to move her arms AT ALL. (I think it's also possible she had fallen into a Lara Croft wormhole and was just feeling inspired.)

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1135.png)

I just want this disembodied head of Tyra Banks to float into my bathroom every morning to chat with me while I curl my lashes.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1137.png)

This was her brief period of dressing like the girl on the Swiss Miss packages. God bless Tyra for NEVER being afraid to look totally goofy.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1141.png)

This season, by the way, was the one where she spent a lot of time wearing what I think was just fabric draped hither and yon.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1142.png)

BRIEF JAY MANUEL BREAK. I needed other people to experience this Shirtless Dinner look. It's sort of...Aladdin-inspired?

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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This is three loincloths tacked together.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1149.png)

NEVER FORGET! (If you didn't watch ANTM, a primer: The girls were in a fight because some of them were terrible slobs in the kitchen. One of them raised the stakes by carving the words, "CLEAN UP YOUR SHIT" into a slob's pan of gluten-free brownies. YaYa here was neither the carver, nor the brownie-owner, but she was ENRAGED by the LACK OF RESPECT in this SHOCKING VIOLATION OF PASTRY, and communicated that via tee shirt.)

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1161.png)

Just a sidebar to note that Tyra looks great here. Tyra is really, really, really, really good-looking.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1163.png)

Even if she sometimes dresses like an extra from the Star Wars prequels.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1168.png)

IN FAIRNESS, this was for a photoshoot.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1185.png)

This was the season Tyra wore a LOT of batwing sleves. (She was dating a gelato kingpin and I suspect she became slightly self-conscious about her upper arms. We've all been there.)

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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I love you, Tyra. (Here, she was demonstrating the difference between FIERCE and BRATTY. Also, yes, that is once again her bra.)

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1209.png)

Yes, that's a faux leopard shrug. What are YOU wearing?

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1223.png)

Remember the time that Tyra demonstrated how you can fake lip injections simply by rolling up a Post-It and sticking it under your upper lip? TRY IT!

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1224.png)

I firmly stand by my theory that NO JUDGE was ever as good as Janice Dickinson, nor as crazy. (Nor, also, as mean -- but honest.)

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1231.png)

If you are not around my age, you are probably not aware of the fact that this is EXACTLY what people would wear to go out in, circa, say, 2005.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1234.png)

YES, that's a sequined shrug. It may also double as a bed jacket.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1241.png)

This is the season they visited South Africa -- the season Naima won, and Keenyah kept stress-eating and gained like ten pounds, which is noteworthy on a modeling show, and was amusing because she'd literally say things like, "I need to start eating better OOH ARE THOSE MINI-MUFFINS," which is ALSO a place in which I have found myself -- hence the super subtle and culturally sensitive set dressing.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1242.png)

Eventually, we move into a time where Jay, too, spends ALL HIS TIME looking insane. (That said, I also love Jay Manuel. He is so PUT UPON and it's always funny, and he works really hard.) Here, he looks like he's in a barbershop quartet sponsored by an ice cream shoppe.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1251.png)

IN FAIRNESS, Miss J WAS making them walk in swimsuits, hence this ensemble.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1255.png)

This season -- the one Nicole won -- was one of Tyra's prettiest. Somewhere, I like to think that Diane Lockhart is procrastinating and reading this, and coveting that necklace.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1262.png)

Real talk: I ALSO owned this top and I STILL LOVE IT.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1266.png)

I actually also owned this -- just kidding.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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Tyra herself would agree that she wears bangs well (due to her large forehead HER WORDS NOT MINE).

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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...I don't know what's happening here.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1280.png)

This, I assume, must have coincided with a re-read of *The Great Gatsby*.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1285.png)

You are so pretty, Tyra. You could be a model.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![The Best of Tyra on ANTM](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1292.png)

Yes, yes, that's a ruffled striped belted knit top, but it's ALSO Rachel Zoe down at the non-Twiggy end of panel. She spent this entire episode wearing a jumpsuit, of course.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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All Business Tyra.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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Tyra looks fine here -- well, I mean, she's wearing a towel, but it could be worse -- but I really wanted you to see what the girls are wearing. JADE. THOSE BOOTS. ARE INSANE.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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FYI, Tyra's vertical is actually really good.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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Yet another subtle set-dressing.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1326.png)

AMAZING.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/12/IMG_1331.png)

AMAZINGER.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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The longer you watch ANTM, the easier it is for you to trace Tyra's evolution from Really Smart Model Business Woman Mentor into...well, all of that still, somewhere, just buried under a HUGE pile of Hammy Shenanigans.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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Here, for example, Tyra BURST onto set, acting like a diva (as a teaching moment). It was CORNBALL. But also I laughed and thought it was kind of great.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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YES, she's showing how to serve more neck in a photo. You guys, Tyra Banks is responsible for ALL OF US elongating our necks.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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All that said, this season was the one in which Tyra was feeling VERY Dita Von Teese, and it REALLY worked for her.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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Hee. Just thought you needed to see what they did to Melrose.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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Also that Interviewing Matt Czuchry at some BS CW party was a prize for living through the aforementioned.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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This is legit good, right? RIGHT?

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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Here's 2006 is in nutshell.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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Remember what I said about Tyra really indulging her Hammy Side? VOILA. (What better way to tell people they get to go to Spain?)

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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I don't even know anymore.

## The Best of Tyra on ANTM

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She IS always serving great face. It simply cannot be denied.

[The Best of Tyra Banks on ANTM: The Classic YearsAs you may have heard, this past cycle of America's Next Top Model was its last, news which prompted me to spend approximately six weeks binge-watching The Classic Years on Hulu -- an activity I highly recommend. If it's been a while since you watched ANTM, you may have forgotten HOW GREAT IT ONCE WAS.\* Not only did it bring legit drama (Respeito! That time Shandi slept with that male model! JADE), the early seasons are actually chockful of real, actual, good, legit modeling advice from Tyra, who is that magical combo of knowledgeable and hammy. Even better, I promise you that every single episode you will say two things to yourself: (1) "Tyra is SO pretty," and (2) "Tyra, WTF are you wearing?" Although I strongly urge you to use this holiday break to ignore your loved ones and go on an ANTM binge-watch (I, personally, only watched cycles 1-7, or Adrianne through CariDee, because once Twiggy was gone and the real judges roulette began, I could not go on), if you don't have the time, I've got that last bit covered for you. Behold: all the crazy stuff Tyra wore during the glory days of Top Model. With bonus crazy from Jay Manuel. PS: This is not the first time we've done this. In a latter -- LESSER -- season (that I still watched, originally, of course), TyTy Baby wore ONLY JUMPSUITS. \*Full disclosure: Heather worked on ANTM for several years. I did not.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2015/12/img_1088.jpg)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/the-best-of-tyra-banks-on-antm-the-classic-years-12-2015/)