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
Moms, you are the first and most influential role model in your girl's life. Use that power.
I'm all about zagging when everyone else is zigging.
I'm always looking at how I can be atypical.
I look up to Walt Disney and what he has done.
I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'
I have a poverty demon. I'll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he'll say, 'What are you talking about?'
I have a big forehead, and I got made fun of all time. When I was a little girl, they used to call me 'five-head.'
What I don't like to see is when models of different races come in and out of fashion.
A size 16 can be the best shape for you, and you can be healthy.
It's kind of embarrassing, but in my early 20s, I used to want to be a princess. But I didn't want to have to marry somebody in order to do it!
Dab - don't rub - cream formulas onto your skin. Rubbing washes out the color, so do that only if you've put on too much.
Even when I was a teen model, I didn't think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance.
Years ago, when I first started wearing hair extensions, I would get mail from young girls, or young girls would come up to me and they would say, 'Tyra you have the most beautiful hair, like I could never grow hair like that!' And I would say 'Child, this is a weave!'
When I was not connected with someone, I didn't get asked out that often.