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
The judges look at you and every week you are the most beautiful girl to them, but we still haven't seen that in your pictures.
By no means am I saying a breast implant is a bad thing, but it's not a choice that I made.
I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.
I know some women are intimidated by makeup.
Screw being a singer! I wanna be the voice of my generation with my talk show.
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.
I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off.
I get so much mail from young women saying that they are so insecure when they look at me, but they don't realize all of the flaws that I have.
I'm so simple. If I don't have groceries, I eat popcorn and Tang for dinner.
Is this a church meeting or is this a bar? Make some noise!
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.
Girls of all kinds can be beautiful - from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned; the quirky, clumsy, shy, outgoing and all in between. It's not easy though because many people still put beauty into a confining, narrow box...Think outside of the box...Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.
Love every part of yourself. Even the things that frustrate you. They make you who you are!