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
I don't like expensive things... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save.
I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.
I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.
I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.
I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that?
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.
I won't say if I'm single or dating or married or divorced. There's boundaries.
I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year--to really dissect the budget.
I close my eyes while driving and just sing along. I always open them again in time.
Girls of all kinds can be beautiful...
I think every woman would want to do something about their cellulite!
I kind of like the wind in my face. If it wasn’t there, I don’t know if I would push as hard.
I think I'm too young to be a mogul. I think I'm too young for that.