Who is Tyra Banks?

Who is Miss Tyra Banks? She is actually quite a few things. And yes, she is human. Tyra is a supermodel, television personality, talk show host, actress all wrapped up into one pretty woman. But all ANTM fans love and know her as the head judge of America’s Next Top Models judging panel.

Tyra Banks was born on December 4, 1973 and first came into prominence on the catwalks of New York, Milan, Paris, London and Tokyo. However, her breakthrough was her commercial work. She is the host of her own tv show called The Tyra Banks Show. She is one out of four African Americans to have graced Time magazines World’s Most Influential People list repeatedly.

Even Celebs have Personal Lives
Tyra Banks is the daughter of a computer consultant and a fashion manager/medical photographer. Her mother, Carolyn has been seen in many ANTM episodes. Tyras parents divorced when she was 6 years old but have maintained a friendship. Carolyn has since been remarried, she is now married to a man named Clifford Johnson. Tyra attended a Catholic girls school where she admits to have been ridiculed for her height and wight (who’s laughing now? lol). Tyra had been accepted to a university but she wanted to pursue modeling so she headed for Paris, she started modeling at the age of 15.

In the year of 1993, Tyra met John Singleton, the director of Boyz N The Hood, through mutual friends. They started to date and that is when Tyra had her first screen debut in one of his movies called Higher Learning. They broke up in 1996, and after a while Tyra was linked to Seal, the pop singer who is now married to Heidi Klum. She has also been linked to basketball player Chris Webber and was even thought to be engaged although it has never been established as being true.

Into the World of Modeling She Goes

During Tyras first week in Paris, she was already enchanting the designers with her runway presence thus breaking a business record for newcomers by being booked for a unprecedented 25 shows. She has done extensive print work and runway work for advertising moguls such as Anna Sui, Covergirl, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan and that is only a few of many. She is also the first African-American woman to appear on the covers of GQ magazine as well as the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue magazine. In 2005, Tyra retired from modeling to concentrate on her television shows.

Now there is much more I could say but then this would be a very long blog post, but I believe I got all the relevant information.

One more thing that I personally love about this woman is that she has been asked many times to appear in Playboy Magazine but she has rejected them every time.

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