It is a strange, reflective time to be a Chinese millennial woman. This week, as we celebrated the Lunar New Year, the holiday coincided with the release of the Netflix documentary Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model. Watching it felt like a collision of two very different, yet equally judgmental worlds.
The documentary is a brutal postmortem of a popular reality competition created by former supermodel Tyra Banks in 2003. For 24 seasons, supermodel hopefuls were pitted against one another in increasingly bizarre challenges and regularly subjected to microscopic scrutiny – specifically regarding their weight.
