Tyra Banks Admits "We Messed Up" On 'America's Next Top Model's' Mission to Be Inclusive - Hollywood Reporter

There were "a whole bunch of things" that Tyra Banks and other members of the America's Next Top Model team got wrong when it came to the show's diversity and inclusion efforts, the former model and host said during her Wednesday appearance on The Tamron Hall Show.

"We were still operating in a world — I was still a model at the time, not a retired model yet, and still operating in this world that had so many rules," Banks told Hall when asked about criticism of some of her work on the show.

"I was trying to push boundaries but was also torn to try to make sure that these girls could work, so it was a balance," Banks said.

"I had model agents here saying, 'These three girls could really, really work, but this must change,' so there was a whole behind-the-scenes thing happening," Banks elaborated.

America's Next Top Model first debuted back in 2003 on UPN and moved to The CW, where it was canceled in 2015 before being revived shortly after on VH1

"America's Next Top Model was created — I created it — to introduce diversity and inclusion into a world that was pretty much not representing that or representing it in the most minute ways," Banks said

"So that was the crux of why I created America's Next Top Model