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Cover of You Wanna Be On Top, featuring a plastic doll head looking sad

“If I could be who you wanted / All the time”

You Wanna Be on Top? A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model (2025) by Sarah Hartshorne

August 10, 2025 by drmllz Leave a Comment

Bingo square: Border. This memoir is about the blurriness of the border between the real and fake, mainly on what we call reality television, but also within trauma-inflected memory. The way I ate this up, as the youth who were born after Sarah Hartshorne’s stint on America’s Next Top Model (2007) would say. Of course, said youth would immediately identify the toxicity of the show (which took me well over a decade to figure out) and make a pithy 8-second TikTok call-out–although they might also […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, America's Next Top Model, cbr17, cbr17bingo, drmllz, LGBTQIA, non fiction, Pop Culture, reality TV, Sarah Hartshorne

drmllz's CBR17 Review No:9 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, America's Next Top Model, cbr17, cbr17bingo, drmllz, LGBTQIA, non fiction, Pop Culture, reality TV, Sarah Hartshorne ·
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