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America’s Next Top Memoir: The First Model to Write a Book on Top Model is Up+Adam

Published 6 months, 1 week ago
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What really happened on America’s Next Top Model? Sarah Hartshorne joins Adam Montiel with the kind of honesty that flips the script on everything you thought you knew about reality TV. A contestant on Cycle 9 and the author of You Wanna Be On Top?, Sarah unpacks the contracts, the calorie limits, the casting manipulation, and the emotional aftermath of living inside a show that was built for drama, not truth.


They talk about how the show shaped her body image, what it was like to be the only plus-size contestant, how the producers crafted characters from real people, and why the model house didn’t even have a microwave. This conversation isn’t about spilling tea. It’s about reclaiming the story from inside the machine.


• Buy the Book:

You Wanna Be On Top? - Penguin Random House

• Follow Sarah on Instagram and TikTok:

@sarahbhartshorne

• Learn More:

https://www.sarahbhartshorne.com



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