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
to use her success to help other women on their journey in life.
The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.
I don't like expensive things... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save.
I'm not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them
I think the rise of Asian models is an absolutely beautiful thing.
I'm so simple. If I don't have groceries, I eat popcorn and Tang for dinner.
If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity.
Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based.
I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.
It's so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.
I don't think me walking away from modeling was scary for me. In hindsight, I think it was very risky, when you talk about risk. Because it paid the bills.
Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no others.
You don't have to have a ring on your finger to say, 'I love you.'
Global warming will threaten our crops, so natural food will be scarce. Hourglass, curvy bodies will be the aspirational beauty standard, representing that those women have access to bounties of fulfilling yet healthy food, which means they are affluent.