Tyra Banks slammed for praising Top Model star with ‘world’s smallest waist’
August 12th, 2010 - 4:35 pm ICT by ANIMelbourne, Aug 12 (ANI): Model Tyra Banks has been criticized for praising America’s Next Top Model contestant for having the smallest waist in the world.
Banks promoted images of the woman with a shockingly thin waist in commercials for her hit modelling reality show’s upcoming season.
Banks and her co-hosts gaze at a 188cm model with a waist so small a man’s hands could touch while wrapped around it, In an ad for America’s next Top Model, according to Fox News.com.
“There’s something about her I like,” Banks said.
The ad has already been dubbed as “America’s Next Top Circus Freak” by popular US blog the Frisky, reports News.com.au.
“I am going to give Ann, the six-foot two-inch model with the Barbie doll-sized waist, the benefit of the doubt and assume that she has a pituitary disorder rather than an eating one,” blogger Ami Angelowicz wrote. (ANI)
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