The mess from Netflix’s “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model” just keeps getting messier!

The cycle-6 winner, Danielle “Dani” Evans, described her now infamous dental “makeover” and said she still remembers the moment producers pressured her to close her natural tooth gap. She later called the decision damaging to her confidence. 

In the docuseries, Evans re-examined how the show’s producers, and host Tyra Banks, handled contestants’ bodies and careers, and she says a 2006 makeover moment had long fallout.

Evans shared that her brother urged her to audition for the show, and fresh out of high school, she used it as a means to get out of her hometown, Little Rock, Ark. She made it on the show and quickly became a favorite. Banks and the ‘ANTM’ team encouraged Evans to close the gap between her two front teeth, alleging that Banks said she needed to “perfect” her smile so she could be “marketable.” She initially refused, but Banks told her that if she didn’t comply, she’d be sent home. So she obliged to a partial filling.

“So we pull up to the dentist, and the guy keeps asking me if I want to get anything done to my teeth. I was like, ‘No, I don’t want to close my gap. That’s not your right to tell me what to do with my body,’" Evans emotionally recalled in “Reality Check.”

“When Tyra called my name, she was like, ‘So if I decide to keep you, are you going to get your gap closed?’ And then that’s when I was like, ‘So what you’re saying to me is if I don’t get my gap closed, you’re going to send me home,’” Evans alleged.

“And so I decided to play the game, and I got my gap closed some. It’s my life, and it was toyed with consciously, and me saying no and them going against that is invasive,” she said.

Banks said she later apologized to Evans, but defended her decision as a part of modeling industry standards. “That was between a rock and a hard place for me,” she explained. “Because there were agents who would tell me, 'She will not work with those teeth. It’s just not going to happen.' That’s what they told me. And again, I could’ve just been quiet and let them handle it, but hindsight is 20/20 for all of us. It just so happens that a lot of things that are 20/20 for me happened in front of the world." The moment is one of several in the docuseries that prompted renewed scrutiny of the program’s behind-the-scenes practices.

Evans wasn’t buying Banks’ justification. She said, "Bull f---ing s--t. Me getting my gap closed is not opening any doors for me. You knew what you were doing for the show. You were making good TV at my expense.”

The Netflix series collected multiple former contestants’ accounts — from alleged pressuring around appearance to claims of exploitative production choices — and includes on-camera reflections from judges and staff. The doc has reignited debate about the ethics of reality-TV production and the gap between on-air narratives and off-camera impact.

Evans has also pushed forward professionally. Initially, she struggled to land work, claiming the show did not help her career. “What I was told was that no one wanted to book me for their shows because I was viewed as, like, this reality show star and designers didn't want me walking in the show to take attention, if you will, off of their collection and onto myself,” Evans said in the docuseries. Despite those challenges, Evans managed to build herself a solid modeling career, walking in shows, posing in glossies and campaigns, but she did eventually decide to dissolve her modeling career. And she said that was the “best” decision of her life.

The former model started Monrowe, a unisex hat brand, and has returned to social media after a hiatus. She told interviewers she hopes the series will prompt real change for future contestants.