America's Next Top Model: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of America's Next Top Model Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
The Girl Who Is a Lady Kat... Reow!
Mar 2, 2005
Supermodel Tyra Banks welcomes a new group of top model wannabes to Los Angeles, where some girls from the past are given a second chance, another finds herself stripping after a g
The Girls Who Hate Their Makeovers
Mar 9, 2005
The finalists are taken headfirst into their first challenge, a dramatic photoshoot where they pose as aliens taking over LA. One girl's attitude worsens during the makeovers when
The Girl Who Suddenly Collapsed
Mar 16, 2005
The girls have a sporty runway challenge, and the winner walks away with something extra special. At elimination, one girls ends up in the hospital.
The Girl with the Worst Photo in History
Mar 23, 2005
The girls are faced with a dual challenge. At the photo shoot, one girls breaks away from her usual habits, while another falls into a bad one.
The Girl Who is Contagious
Mar 30, 2005
When Jay greets them for their next photoshoot, the girls are surprised to learn they will be turned into a different ethnicity.
The Girl With the Deliciously Tacky Dance
Apr 6, 2005
The girls are taught first hand how they shouldn't sign a contract without knowing what it is. Tyra gives them a few pointers about the business side of modeling, including that an
The Girl Who Pushes Tyra Over The Edge
Apr 13, 2005
Tyra gets upset with one of the girls, when she is sent home and she doesn't represent any sadness, while another girl, who is also eliminated, cries her eyes out.
The Girl Who Gets Bad News
Apr 20, 2005
The girls are put on the spot in this week's challenge. One girl has a hard time disassociating the photo shoot from her personal life.
The Girls the Lionesses Are Hunting
Apr 27, 2005
The girls go to South Africa and learn about the country's fashion and history.
The Girl Who Flops In The Mud
May 4, 2005
The girls make their own outfits out of items they find in the nature surrounding the place of the shoot.
The Girl Who Is Special
May 11, 2005
One of the girls wins a dance challenge where her belief that she is special irritates the other contestants; then she and another girl get into a huge confrontation. Next, the mod
The Girl Who Walks on Water
May 18, 2005
The three remaining finalists - Naima, Keenyah, and Kahlen - shoot a commercial for Cover Girl.