“The reason I was told I was fired was because it seemed that America’s [Next] Top Model had gotten too fat, and they needed to cut some fat and the fat was me,” she said, adding later, “It could have been either that or my gigantic huge ego. Which I wasn’t aware of before I was told by the producers that I had an ego problem.” That sounds pretty bitter to us, but when Craig suggested that there was a rivalry between Paulina and Tyra Banks, she insisted that there wasn’t. “I really believe that they just felt like they didn’t need me, which of course, they don’t. So that’s okay.”