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CONTENT WARNING: This episode mentions sexual assault, suicide, and suicidal ideation.  

Before you could be cast on America’s Next Top Model, you had to pass a psychological evaluation. Contestants were told these psych evals were about keeping them safe. But whose safety was ANTM really worried about? In this episode, we explain how the ANTM psych eval worked and where it failed.

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