Jay Manuel and Miss J Alexander also address the recent show backlash and what they've dubbed #GapGate.made headlines for all the wrong reasons earlier this week, after old clips from the reality show were resurfaced by fans accusing it of fat-shaming, promoting blackface and pressuring models to have cosmetic surgery to succeed.
"I knew in that moment, after reading her words, that I have a responsibility to address what happened and speak my truth," said Evans."This is a video for me to speak my truth and to provide clarity and for me to address an issue that was done 15 years ago that carries weight and clearly affected a lot of young girls in America after watching it."
"With that being said, I had one goal in mind. My one goal was to get out of my hometown," she said."I was so focused, I wasn't even hungry, I was starved to get out. The opposition that came my way, I was so deaf to it. Anyone who stood in my way of getting out of Little Rock, Arkansas was going to get bowled over."
"None of this aired on TV," she said,"He kept asking me if I wanted to close my gap, naw bro, I'm super secure in my gap." Though she admitted she struggled with her neck, jaw and teeth growing up and used to ask her mother for braces, they couldn't afford them and she learned to"accept and love" her gap.During elimination, Evans said Tyra told her,"I told you to get your gap closed," a conversation Dani says never happened.
TooFab a gap can look good on certain types but not others. Thats the difference. The modeling world is very shallow and disposable so all of this oversensitive crap is just silly. Its a meat market and its not personal. You have the right look that they want or you dont.
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