Tyra Banks
Tyra Banks
Tyra Lynne Banks is an American model, television personality, talk show host, producer, author, actress, singer and business woman. She began her career as a model at age 15, and became the first African American woman on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, on which she appeared twice. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1997 to 2005. By the early 2000s, Banks was one of the top-earning models in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth4 December 1973
CityInglewood, CA
CountryUnited States of America
By no means am I trying to change the modeling industry.
By no means am I saying a breast implant is a bad thing, but it's not a choice that I made.
By no means am I against plastic surgery, by no means am I saying that breast implants are a bad thing, but it's just not a choice that I made ... it's something that a lot of people think I have and that is so frustrating to me.
Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.
I am prepared to share my life with people,
I'm not led by money, because if that's the case, I can throw my name on everything and have a million-dollar company.
I learned my ABCs, 1-2-3 from 'Sesame Street.'
I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.
I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.
I know some women are intimidated by makeup.
The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo to most Tweets.
A girl like you that is not necessarily super tall or has a model proportion has to be almost perfect and you nearly fell off this runway.
'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.
The judges think, 'Beautiful girl, Beautiful pictures,' but a lot of them don't see a model in front of them.