Antm graduate yay Dakost reveals where she stands with Tira Banks
The next top model of America alum Yay dakost replied after Tira Banks He addressed popular criticisms in the series of her reality.
In a video that is shared through Instagram On Saturday, March 15, the 42nd Dakosta, she responded directly to the speech spent by Banks, 51, on Essence Black Women on Hollywood Awards at the end of last month, where she responded to criticism of a series of realistic competitions. (Dakosta was a series contestant in 2004 and finished second in cycle 3.)
“I feel forced to speak” Ant In his video, Golin said: “The story I have told about a long time is a story of an injury” regarding her experience in the show.
Dakosti’s video included clips from the series that pushed the back reaction, including banks telling the contestant that she needed to “fix” the gap in the teeth, as well as the footage with the contradictory problem of “overcoming the races”, unfortunately, saw the model of the contestants in the black surface.
Dakosta recognized other public critics of the series, for example, “Manipulative editing and weapons of girls’ weaknesses” and “Catalization of the body’s dysmorphy for food disorders”. She also showed that her “most shocking” show “is not even air”, but noted that she received “tools” in a series that later helped her career, such as training “adjusting her nervous system”.

According to Dakosta, it caused a “real injury” for Ant Graduates. “It was no accident,” she explained. “It was design. The goal was to entertain the preparation of the real world modeling, and especially over mental health.”
On February 27, Banks accepted the first Holy Spotter in Hollywood Awards. In her speech, she turned to the early push of the show to the variety on the screen against the backdrop of the toxic media. (The next top model of America Premier took place in May 2003)
“You guys In her speech said Banks. “To show different beauties at a time when the world looked like” what? You throw it up? And what? Was it that? ‘The time when people in the fashion industry said to me, “Do you put girls out of the hood on your show?” I liked: “Why would a girl from the Park trailer become a supermodel, but a girl who is chilin in a hood park?” And we fought, and we fought and we did it. “
She continued: “Is we right? Damn. I said some stupid s -but I refuse to have my legacy that there were some things on the Internet when there were 24 cycles of the world. We are all developing together. And I am so excited that I, and so many of us, opened these doors for others.”
Dakosta was at the award exhibition, but shared in her video she was absent when Banks made a speech. However, she later faced the banks, and they had a “beautiful conversation” where they had “small conversations” and “resembled”.
“I was so excited at this moment to approach her, reach for her hands and say hello to her warmth, gratitude, with love,” she shared. “What I wouldn’t be capable of. We did not talk pairs of places in which we were in the past. Probably both pretended not to see each other. “
According to Dakosta, “when I saw her, I was genuinely excited and I came up and we have come.” She added: “No, there was no obvious apology, but you could see that (speech) she was ill with people once at a time, raising these conflicting clips from the show.” Dakosta continued: “I just took her in the arms. You all I considered this woman, and when the time came to the hugs ended, I spent some more. And I sighed deeply because I wanted her to feel to be completely expensive, revered and loved.”