segunda-feira, 29 de setembro de 2008

Tyra`` is`` Michelle Obama


Some celebrities have shown support for presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama by wearing a T-shirt with his face on it or by speaking at political events.
Tyra Banks is dressing up like his wife, Michelle Obama, in the September issue of Harper´s Bazaar.
"Michelle Obama, you're one hot mama," the talk show host and supermodel says in the issue, which hits newsstands Aug. 19. In the new image, Banks poses in a faux Oval Office with a model who resembles Barack Obama. She also talks politics, explaining her pose. "With Barack Obama, his becoming president is them becoming president because Michelle was there from the beginning," Banks says. "Without Michelle, he wouldn't be there."When it comes to a modern first lady, Banks, who's staked her career on female empowerment, has some advice to offer. "I want her to not take herself too seriously," she says. "She'd need to know how to take a fierce picture but at the same time be able to eat fried chicken, have grease on her fingers, and be okay with getting photographed like that, too."
And she must have a fantastic hairstyle. "My question isn't to flip or not to flip," Banks tells Harper's Bazaar. "Mine would be to weave or not to weave." But the talk show host gets serious when talk turns to Obama's possible presidency. "When Barack won the nomination, I just started bawling," Banks says. "I started calling all these people, and everybody was talking to me like I was crazy. They’re like, 'Well, he hasn't won yet,' but I’m like, 'Yes, he has, because he's gotten this far.'"

terça-feira, 5 de agosto de 2008

Tyra Banks talks about bully revenge

Tyra Banks got revenge on a school bully when she made it as a supermodel.The 'America's Next Top Model' host - who claims her height and looks have not always made her popular - revealed she got her own back on a bully when she saw him in a nightclub after growing into her body.
She said: "I used to be the freak at school. I was 5'9in and really skinny. I used to get picked on a lot. But now I can get my own back."There was this boy I really fancied called Antonio Epps who was so cruel. He used to say, 'I do not want that tall, skinny, braces mouth, big forehead girl anywhere near me.' I just broke down. "But then when I just started being recognised as an up and coming supermodel I was out dancing and there was a big burly bouncer on the door - it was him. I went up to him and said, 'Antonio? It's me, Tyra, from school!' He was like, 'No way!' So that was nice. I got a little revenge there!"Tyra has since forged a successful modelling career, and has her own US talk show, 'The Tyra Banks Show'.

domingo, 3 de agosto de 2008

Tyra Banks coming to Amsterdam!!!


It looks like the models in the upcoming cycle of America's Next Top Model will be going to Amsterdam!
Tyra Banks is coming to Amsterdam this summer with the last five candidates of America's Next Top Model.
The models of America’s Next Top Model will have several go-sees and photo shoots in Amsterdam.
Because the prerecordings in Amsterdam of ANTM(Americans Next Top Model) are for season eleven of the program, we will have to wait for some time before the show is broadcasted in the Netherlands. Right now the 8th season of ANTM has just been broadcasted.

sexta-feira, 1 de agosto de 2008

Tyra Banks gets Waxed


Earlier this month a replica waxwork was unveiled at the Washington Madame Tussauds and now she has a wax model of herself at the New York Madame Tussauds wax museum. Tyra looks just like a barbie doll.
No word on whether Wax Tyra will be permanently installed in Washington, but while it's inside the Beltway it should consider a run at the 2008 Presidential election.
The picture is perfect because she looks like her!

quinta-feira, 31 de julho de 2008

Tyra Banks biography

1984
Growing Pains
At 11, a growth spurt turns Banks into "this tall beanpole freak all the girls would laugh at." She tells PEOPLE, "I wasn't just skinny and tall; I was sick looking. If anybody called me skinny, I would just smile, then run into my room and burst out crying. It was a really unhappy time."






1990
Model in the Making
A 17-year-old Banks begins making the model agency rounds while at L.A.'s Immaculate Heart High School. ''The market for black models was not very good,'' Banks' mom Carolyn, who shot her daughter's portfolio, tells PEOPLE. Banks is told her look is "too ethnic." After graduation, she plans to enroll at L.A.'s Loyola Marymount University, but weeks before the start of her freshman year, things turn around. A French modeling scout spots Banks and offers her a chance to model in the Paris couture shows.


1991
The European Catwalk
''My ankles would shake, and I would bend my knees and stick my lips out,'' Banks tells PEOPLE of her first model walks. But within a week, she accumulates 25 bookings. Model Niki Taylor says, ''She can work a runway like you would not believe.'' Designer Todd Oldman adds, ''She reminds me of an antelope. She was just born with grace.''


1993
Runway Rival
Black supermodel Naomi Campbell takes notice of rising 19-year-old star Banks and reportedly persuades Karl Lagerfeld to ban the so-called new Naomi Campbell from Chanel's catwalk. "Why do I have to knock Naomi out to be successful?" Banks asks PEOPLE. "With white models, they don't do that."
1995
Screen Debut
Banks lands the part of track runner Deja opposite Omar Epps in Higher Learning. "Tyra is good,'' says the film's director and her boyfriend John Singleton, who calms her worries of favoritism by assuring her she wouldn't have the part if she wasn't right. ''She adds a lot of flavor to what could have been a throwaway role.'' She follows up with films Love & Basketball and Coyote Ugly.




1996
Another Romantic Link
After splitting up with Singleton in spring, Banks, 22, shows up with pop singer Seal, 33, at the Essence Awards. Their low-key romance ends in October.




1997
Fashion Pioneer
She has a Cover Girl makeup contract and is a regular in magazines and on runways, but the 23-year-old Banks makes history with a triple achievement in 1996. She is the first African-American woman to pose on the covers of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue (with model Valeria Mazza), GQ (February 1996) and the Victoria's Secret catalogue (1996). On Feb. 21, 1997, she'll grace the cover of Sports Illustrated for the second year in a row – this time, by herself.





1998
Lessons from Tyra
The model releases her first book, Tyra's Beauty Inside & Out, with her thoughts on self-esteem and step-by-step makeup advice. "It's not the cosmetics, not the swimsuits, not the magazine covers," makeup artist Sam Fine tells PEOPLE. "The beauty of Tyra is her natural side, the child in her." Banks is also upfront about her looks: "I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation."




2001
Tyra's Zone
Banks establishes Tzone, a Southern California camp aimed at building self-esteem in teenage girls. "I'm just 'BBQ' [her camp nickname], a girl like them," Banks tells PEOPLE. "It's important for me to let young girls know how much of it is smoke and mirrors. I still go to work and see people, my peers that make me feel insecure. I talk about that. I shed tears about that. It breaks down barriers."

2002
Love & Basketball
Banks, a constant courtside presence at Sacramento Kings games, is linked to Kings forward Chris Webber. "She's my closest female friend," the NBA star says to PEOPLE in May. After a two-year romance and talk of an engagement, they split in 2004. Webber's rep confirms the two "broke up and remain good friends," telling PEOPLE, "at no time were they ever engaged."


2003
TV's Next Top Host
Her success continues with the launch of her girls-go-high-fashion reality show, America's Next Top Model, on which women vie for a modeling contract. With the show still going strong after seven seasons, Banks tells PEOPLE, "It makes me really proud that there can be a healthy model out there to show you don't have to resort to crazy means to get the type of figure you desire."




2004
Shake It, Tyra
Banks releases a hip-hop-flavored music video, "Shake Your Body," which features dancing by contestants from the second season of Top Model. She pays the $30,000 production costs herself, hoping the video leads to a record deal. It gets some airplay on MTV2, but the single never makes it to radio. "That was a dream," she tells Forbes in 2006. "I sounded decent, but you shouldn't ever do something just because you're only decent at it."


2005
The Next Oprah?
Six years after being a youth correspondent on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Banks, 31, pulls double-duty as host and executive producer of her own talk show. It is on The Tyra Banks Show that she faces rival supermodel Naomi Campbell. "One of the reasons I wanted to do this show is because sisterhood is so important to me," she says during their discussion.


2006
Shaping the World
Time names Banks one of the Most Influential People in the World, where Heidi Klum calls her a "whip-smart business mogul." She makes the list again the following year, with famed feminist Naomi Wolf writing, "What I love about Tyra Banks is that she is taking action. She has used her own weight gain…as a teachable moment to confront the culture and speak out to girls and young women about embracing their bodies in all sizes."
2007
Bigger is Better
After tabloids and blogs run photos mocking Banks for looking heavier, she tells PEOPLE she's happy with her present figure, which is 30 lbs. heavier than her 2005 pre-retirement weight. Posing on the cover of PEOPLE, an empowered Banks says, "I still feel hot." Weeks later, with tears in her eyes and rage in her voice, Banks tells critics on her talk show, "Kiss my fat a--!" After launching her "So What" campaign that promotes positive body images, Banks is listed as one of PEOPLE's 100 Most Beautiful.


2008
Lonely at the Top for Tyra
After moving her talk show to New York, Banks opens up to Essence about the lonely life she leads at the top. "I'd go to work and women would be crying in my arms on the talk show," she says. "But then I'd go home and put my key in my door and ... nothing: no friends, no husband, no children. I feel so full when I'm at work but so empty when I come home." While Essence reports the buzz that she's involved with investment banker John Utendahl, 50, Banks keeps mum on relationship rumors.



June 20
Tyra's First Emmy Award
Banks, 34, wins her first Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Informative Talk Show. "I want to thank Oprah Winfrey for her inspiration," Banks says. "She is the queen and will always be the queen." Using her winning moment to silence her detractors, she adds, "When you have a dream, there are going to be many people that tell you that you cannot do it, that you are not good enough. And I want you to tell them to kiss your dimply, flat, juicy, bootylicious, skinny, jiggly, saggy, fat a--!"