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
take responsibility for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you
It seemed like the last form of open discrimination that's OK, and I decided to put on a 350-pound suit myself and live that life for a day and see what happens. And it was one of the most heartbreaking days of my life.
You are not here because you take bad pictures, but because of something we call lack of persona.
Us brown-skinned girls get ashy if we don't moisturize.
I used to want to write commercials as a kid.
I've wanted to adopt since I was eight, nine years old. I really do think I will.
The one thing I like about being a celebrity more than anything is being able to get into any restaurant I want.
I've made mistakes before of doing different projects just based on my dreams, my hopes, my thing, and not really thinking about my customers.
I volunteer a lot of my time with an organization in New York called The Center for Children and Families.
Your face is one of the favorite faces of the judges -- they constantly talk about your high cheekbones -- but they feel like there's something that's a little vacuous, that's doesn't connect.
I don't have that 'OMG, I gotta get married' thing! If it happens, it happens, but it's never been like, 'Oooo, I need to do that!'
One of the big, most underlying messages for me is celebrating beauty that is not typical.
Screw being a singer! I wanna be the voice of my generation with my talk show.
Sephora is fantastic. I go in there. I get lost. There are so many great things in there.