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I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

When modeling agencies were saying that I was too big and gaining weight, my mom said, 'OK, we're go...

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We are often told we can't have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can...

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On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' ...

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A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is...

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Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudice...

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I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning...

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Even when I was a teen model, I didn't think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get...

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I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous...

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A while ago I said that, 'You know, I like a guy - he doesn't have to be all rich and famous - he ca...

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I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grade...

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My mom was a medical photographer, but on the side, she did a before-and-after glam photography busi...

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Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me...<3

Tyra's Beauty Inside Out

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't hav...

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My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance.

I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn...

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Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I could...

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There is a difference between desire and desperation.

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses....

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Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied ...

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Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourse...

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I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don'...

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Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next...

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A smart model is a good model.

Don't contour with blush - that's so eighties. It was an amazing trend then, but it's not hot now. I...

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I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd ...

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When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just reall...

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One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not goin...

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There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy ...

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'Modelland' has always been a part of my mind and my heart. I'm excited that you'll be able to read ...

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I've made mistakes before of doing different projects just based on my dreams, my hopes, my thing, a...

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I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato ch...

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Global warming will threaten our crops, so natural food will be scarce. Hourglass, curvy bodies will...

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Tyra Banks

Television Personality

Born: 1973-12-04

Died: N/A

Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973) is a television personality, author, actress, singer, executive producer, talk show host, and former supermodel. She is well known for her role as the host and judge of the reality television show America's Next Top Model.More