Jeana Turner Accuses ‘ANTM’ Of Emotional Manipulation After Makeover

An “America’s Subsequent High Mannequin” alum is talking out years after her controversial makeover aired, and he or she’s not holding again. Jeana Turner, who appeared on Cycle 24 of the long-running actuality competitors, claims she was misled by manufacturing earlier than receiving the notorious head-shaving transformation that shocked viewers in 2018. Her feedback come on the heels of Netflix’s new docuseries inspecting the present’s legacy, which she says solely begins to disclose what contestants really skilled behind the scenes.

“America’s Subsequent High Mannequin” alum Turner says she was misled by Tyra Banks and her crew earlier than receiving her notorious head shave makeover in 2018.

Turner spoke with the Every day Mail days after the discharge of the Netflix docuseries “Actuality Verify,” described by the streamer as Banks and a set of “fashions, judges and insiders” reminiscing on “the fact present’s difficult legacy.” She stated that after watching the three-episode restricted sequence, she felt it was solely “scratching the floor” of the “harsh remedy” and “emotional manipulation” the a whole lot of fashions who populated the present’s casts needed to endure.

The Nashville-born mannequin was 24 when she appeared on 15 episodes of the hit actuality sequence throughout its twenty fourth season in 2018.

Turner, who was recognized with alopecia when she was 10, was concerned in quite a few uncomfortable sequences on the present, most infamously, on the third episode of the season, titled “Magnificence Is a Trademark.”

Within the episode, which aired in January of 2018, Banks and producers ordered Turner to shave her head in entrance of the cameras and mannequin bald throughout a makeover-themed phase. (She had worn wigs on the runway previous to that time in her profession.) “What I used to be instructed was, ‘We all know that you simply misplaced your hair throughout your childhood so we’re going to exchange the hair that you simply misplaced,'” Turner instructed the Every day Mail.

Turner, who presides over a magnificence enterprise Haus Of Anomali (which gives wigs, hair items and extensions), stated she initially believed she can be receiving a high-end wig as a part of the makeover. “For me, I’m pondering OK that’s thrilling as a result of that is ‘America’s Subsequent High Mannequin’ and I’ve struggled with wigs my complete life,” she stated. “I’ve struggled for therefore lengthy to revive the hair that I initially misplaced as a baby; the feel, the colour, all the things.”

Turner stated she was assured she was working with business professionals able to delivering the transformation she envisioned. “So I’m like if there’s anybody that may do it, its Tyra Banks and her makeover crew, after all, so I received actually excited,” she stated.

However in response to Turner, the second shortly took an surprising flip when stylist Regulation Roach revealed what was really deliberate. “They have been like ‘Hey Jeana, you know the way we instructed you we have been providing you with a wig?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah.’ He stated ‘Psych,’ and he takes out a razor, an everyday razor that you’d shave your armpits with, and was like ‘Psych, we’re BIC-ing your head!'”

Turner described freezing as she processed what was occurring whereas cameras continued rolling. “I’m a kind of folks that’s like so hyper conscious of cameras and who’s trying always,” she stated. “I didn’t wish to, on the time, put myself in a weak place that type of uncovered how uncooked I really felt at the moment. I used to be simply making an attempt to collect my very own ideas, and similar to determine it out, so I type of simply froze. I feel I used to be perhaps in a shock slightly bit.”

Turner stated her emotions shifted to anger as she realized how totally different actuality was from what she believed had been promised. “They instructed me I used to be getting hair to now that they’re taking my wig off and in addition shaving what little little bit of hair that I’ve,” stated Turner, explaining that the hair being eliminated carried deep private which means as a result of she had been rising it since childhood.

Turner additionally mirrored extra broadly on how contestants’ experiences usually prolonged past what viewers noticed on tv. “What folks noticed was a model of occasions, but it surely wasn’t essentially the entire image,” Turner stated. “On the finish of the day, throughout 24 cycles, I feel there’s been 400 and one thing contestants, you already know that’s 400 and one thing totally different experiences from that present, and a few a bit extra traumatic than others. However for many people, the influence went past what made it to air.”