American Supermodel Tyra Banks
Tyra Banks Profile/Biography
Nationality: American
Ethnicity:
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Green
Date of Birth: December 4 1973
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Height: 5′10″ ; 178cm
Bust: 87.5 cm
Waist: 61 cm
Hips: 91.5 cm
Dress Size: (US) 6 ; (EU) 36
Shoe Size: (US) 9 ; (EU) 41
Tyra Banks (born December 4, 1973) is an American television personality, Emmy Award-winning talk show host, actress, supermodel, former teen idol, and businessperson. She became famous first as a model in Paris, Milan, London, Tokyo, and New York, but television appearances were her commercial breakthrough. She is known best as the creator and host of the reality television show America’s Next Top Model since its 2003 debut. She current hosts her own Emmy- winning talk show, The Tyra Banks Show. Banks is one of four African Americans and seven women to have repeatedly ranked among the world’s most influential people by Time magazine.
Banks was born in Inglewood, California, the daughter of Carolyn (née London), a fashion manager and NASA photographer and Donald Banks, a computer consultant. The couple divorced in 1990, when Tyra was sixteen, although the relationship of her parents and especially her brother Devin Banks (born 1968) stayed friendly. Later, Carolyn married Clifford Johnson; she now goes by Carolyn London-Johnson. Banks grew up in Inglewood, later attended John Burroughs Middle School and graduated in 1991 from Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles. She began modeling in the 11th grade.
Within Banks’ first week in Paris, other designers were so entranced by her presence on the runway that she was booked for an unprecedented 25 shows; a record in the business for a newcomer. She has done extensive print and/or runway work for fashion/advertising giants such as Anna Sui, Coors Light, CoverGirl, Badgley Mischka, Bill Blass, Cynthia Rowley, Chanel, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan, Gemma Kahng, H&M, Isaac Mizrahi, Maria Snyder, McDonald’s, Aislinn Dubois Modeling Agency Michael Kors, Milk, Nicole Miller, Nike, Inc., Oscar de la Renta, Pepsi, Perry Ellis, Randy Kemper, Richard Tyler, Rifat Ozbek, Swatch, Todd Oldham, Tommy Hilfiger, Victoria’s Secret, and Yves Saint Laurent. She has appeared on the covers of high fashion magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and Elle.
Banks was the first African American woman on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. In 1997, she received the VH1 Award for Supermodel of the Year. Also in 1997, she was chosen for the cover of the Victoria’s Secret catalog, making her the first African American to be so.
Banks retired from modeling in May 2005 to concentrate on her television show. She walked the runway for the final time at the 2005 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
- Tyra’s career began when she signed with Elite.
- She has twice been listed as one of People magazine’s ‘50 Most Beautiful People’.
- Tyra has featured in the films ‘Inferno’ by Ellen von Unwerth, ‘Coyote Ugly’, ‘Love and basketball’ and ‘Higher Learning’. She also had a role (Jackie) in the TV comedy series ‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’, and in Fox TV’s drama ‘New York Undercover’.
- Tyra was the first African American woman on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
- She wrote her own book called ‘Tyra’s Beauty Inside and Out’.
- She has appeared in music videos for George Michael (’Too Funky’) and Michael Jackson (’Black or White’).
- She released calendars in 1997 and 1999.
- She is involved with various charitable organisations.
- Tyra Banks quitted the fashion business to concentrate on her new career as a talk show host and TV producer on 21 November 2005.
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