I won America’s Next Top Model but it was like prison – we didn’t even have privacy in the loo, producers removed doors

INDIA Gants, who won America's Next Top Model, has shared the grim world of what it was truly similar to movie the TV show.

Not lone did India Gants, 28, comparison filming to surviving successful a 'prison’, but she besides claimed that producers removed the doors from the toilets too.

The young pistillate was propelled into the spotlight aft she competed connected the Tyra Banks-led bid successful 2017, whereby she was crowned the winner. 

But now, the exemplary has lifted the lid connected the shocking realities of what it was really similar to enactment successful the beloved competition, and her acquisition was precise antithetic to what galore fans mightiness expect.

Posting connected social media, India claimed that connected apical of having “no privacy”, contestants weren't allowed to spell extracurricular unless it was for thing related to the show.

Not lone this, but she claimed that the models ever had to beryllium 'escorted' by a accumulation subordinate - adjacent erstwhile walking from the location to the car to spell to a photograph shoot.

She besides claimed that she was forced to beryllium wrong a edifice country for 23 hours a time with “no quality interaction” successful the days earlier filming kicked off, admitting that the isolation astir drove her “crazy” and made her privation to discontinue the show.

In a video shared connected TikTok, the blonde-haired beauty claimed: “The hotel we had to enactment astatine earlier filming was horrible.

“We conscionable stared astatine the walls [all day] basically. We were by ourselves and the rooms were truthful small, you hardly had country to move.”

India claimed that the country had a 'janky TV' with lone 2 channels, and they weren't allowed to bring thing similar books oregon electronics, which she recovered mind-numbingly boring.

Not lone was determination “literally thing to do”, arsenic she claimed, but she explained that determination was besides “no way” for them to “communicate with the extracurricular world”. 

She shared: “For 1 hr a time they'd propulsion america retired for a property trial oregon to gully humor oregon to instrumentality photos oregon immoderate they needed that day.

“It was virtually similar we were successful prison. Even the meal situation, they would driblet our nutrient disconnected extracurricular the edifice country door, truthful you'd ace unfastened the door, drawback your food, and devour successful your country alone. 

“I was going crazy. I was really talking to myself successful the mirror. Not successful a comic way, I was having full-on conversations with myself successful the bath mirror.”

India described it arsenic “such a miserable experience” and though she considered quitting, she yet decided to instrumentality it out.

Once the audition process was implicit and she was officially formed successful the series, she moved into a location with the remainder of the models.

But according to the contented creator, things didn't get overmuch easier there. 

In a follow-up clip, India slammed the deficiency of “privacy” successful the abode, portion claiming that determination were nary doors connected the bathrooms.

She shared: “The bathrooms connected America's Next Top Model did not person doors, they had ablution curtains covering the bathrooms and the toilet was conscionable wide unfastened successful there.

“There was truly nary privateness whatsoever, you conscionable had to get utilized to utilizing the bath successful beforehand of different people.”

Despite this, she added: “If you truly request privacy, similar for fig two, determination was a bath successful the confessional and that was wherever you did your backstage business.”

In different videos, India claimed that the models were not allowed to “leave the house” astatine each during the six weeks of filming, but for photograph shoots, challenges, and different things related to the show. 

She dished: “You don't person immoderate state to instrumentality a locomotion oregon spell to the promenade oregon get your nails done oregon immoderate of that stuff.

“You're ever escorted to and from the location by a accumulation person. They instrumentality you from the location into the autobus and from the autobus into the venue and past instrumentality you straight backmost location afterwards.”

Whilst she expressed that it didn’t fuss her that much, she claimed that different girls weren’t blessed that they couldn’t get their “regular quality attraction things”, erstwhile they were “on a amusement that required them to look their best”.

Opening up astir the “weird” experience, she continued: “It's specified a weird world, you are successful this literal bubble during filming.

“We ever talked astir however if immoderate important happening was happening successful the world, we wouldn't person recovered retired astir it.”

As good arsenic this, India besides revealed what truly happened erstwhile you were booted retired of the show.

It whitethorn travel arsenic a daze to many, but she claimed that you weren’t allowed to spell home, and instead, were sent to what she called “the edifice of doom”.

She confessed: “You're inactive not allowed to person your phone oregon books oregon different forms of media.

“You virtually person to enactment successful the edifice for the full remainder of filming due to the fact that if you went location radical would cognize you got sent location and didn't win. They don't privation immoderate spoilers.

“So you spell to this edifice and you conscionable person to enactment there. The girls told maine they were occasionally allowed to spell connected a tract trip, the accumulation adjunct would instrumentality them to spell to devour astatine a edifice oregon spell to a shopping mall.”

As a result, India claimed to her followers that America's Next Top Model was a “reality TV amusement earlier it was a modelling contest.”

She concluded: “Primarily, it's a TV show. They person to marque bully TV. It's not a existent modelling experience.

“They are producing a TV amusement that has to get views. They person to marque it interesting.”

Fabulous has contacted the accumulation institution down America’s Next Top Model, 10 by 10 Entertainment, and Tyra Banks' accumulation company, for comment.