The 42-year-old catwalk queen has promised not to go soft towards the aspiring fashion models on her new TV show, where she sits on the panel alongside former 'America's Next Top Model' judge Nigel Barker and top models Karolina Kurkova and Coco Rocha, reported Contactmusic.
"I'm definitely sergeant major! I'm the mentor that is tough love. I tell them when things are not right and I don't believe you should sugar-coat anything.
"I want these girls to have as much understanding and authenticity from myself as what's going to be out there in the real world of modelling. But I do give praise to my girls too," she said.
However, the programme, which will be aired on the same network as Tyra Banks' flagship show 'ANTM', was emotionally taxing on the statuesque beauty as she had no idea she would become so invested in the girls' lives.
"It was such an emotional journey. I had no idea it would be like this but about the fourth or fifth day it, it hit me! I'm not a shrink but I felt like one. I had to be there to hear everything about there girls, like their family history, their background, their tragedies, their ups and downs. I felt very sympathetic to their stories."
