Tyra Banks
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican television personality, producer, and former model
Tyra Lynne Banks is an American model, television personality, producer, writer, and actress. She began her career as a model at the age of 15 and was the first African American woman to be featured on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, on which she appeared three times.
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Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time.
Lynn Hirschberg (June 1, 2008) "Banksable", The New York Times, The New York Times Company.
And I do know about body image. About worrying about it. I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
Euan Ferguson (April 15, 2007) "Interview: Tyra Banks - The supermodel turned spokeswoman", The Guardian, Guardian News and Media Limited.
Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.
"Tyra Banks: Success as Fashion Model and Businesswoman Make Her a Role Model as Well". (October 2006) Jet. p. 63.
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Tyra Lynne Banks is an American model, television personality, producer, writer, and actress. She began her career as a model at the age of 15 and was the first African American woman to be featured on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, on which she appeared three times. Banks was one of only a few Black models to achieve supermodel status. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1997 to 2005. By the early 2000s, Banks was one of the world's top-earning models.
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