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Twenty years ago, the inaugural cycle of world-renowned supermodel Tyra Banks' show "America's Next Top Model" aired, changing reality TV forever. The premise was simple: Young girls (and later on people of all genders) were chosen to compete in weekly challenges — including photoshoots, interviews, runways, and more — to see who could handle the pressure and win an ad campaign, photo spreads, a modeling contract, and the title of America's Next Top Model.

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Each week, some of the biggest people in the fashion biz critiqued and challenged the competitors, sending them home until there was only the top model remaining. In the premiere episode, Banks, in her typical girl-next-door style, explained why she started the show, saying, "I wanna make a top model in eight weeks ...

[I] wanna show America how it happens."

As of this writing, "ANTM" has had 24 cycles and 334 individual contestants since it began in 2003 (some

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