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
There have been top supermodels in the past that weren't as tall as the industry demands, like fashion icon Kate Moss.
Us brown-skinned girls get ashy if we don't moisturize.
You are not here because you take bad pictures, but because of something we call lack of persona.
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!'
Moms, you are the first and most influential role model in your girl's life. Use that power.
One of the big, most underlying messages for me is celebrating beauty that is not typical.
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?'
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.
When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.