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‘America’s Next Top Model’ Warped Her Story. Dani Evans Is Having the Last Word

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By Charisma Madarang Dani Evans has learned to trust her gut instinct. It’s a habit she’s developed since the events that took place 20 years ago on America’s Next Top Model and after she walked away with the grand prize, only to learn that it had come with a hefty price. “If something within me is a ‘no,’ then I can’t give my attention to it, no matter what it is,” she tells Rolling Stone. “That’s how I’ve built my personal ethos.” In 2005, Evans saw winning the hit reality TV show as a one-way ticket out of Little Rock, Arkansas. At the time, ANTM was an entertainment juggernaut. Evans says she knew the series — which had young models living under one roof and competing in high-stakes photo shoots to win a modeling contract — was made to humiliate the girls on-screen, but her brother convinced her it was an opportunity to fulfill her dreams as a model in New York.…

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