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
Tyra Banks quotes about
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.
'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.
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.
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.
I'm tired of this rumor. It's something that's followed me forever,
I went to school for me - I didn't do it to make any sort of statement. So the very first year I was in school, I wasn't there under my own name. It was very incognito.
The judges see a model in person, but for two weeks in a row they have been less than impressed with your photos. So what the judges see now is a lot of potential, but they haven't seen that potential put into your photos.
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.
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!
I have worn fake hair since I was 17 years old.
I really want to leave something behind that means something when I'm no longer here.
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.'
One of the big, most underlying messages for me is celebrating beauty that is not typical.
It was one of the most heartbreaking days of my life,