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Reality show host and supermodel, Tyra Banks has jumped on the plus-size bandwagon as she has announced this week that she’s holding a contest on her talk show that will feature teen plus-size models. To enter the competition the contestants must be between the ages of 13 to 19 years old and have a dress size of 12 to 20 and stand 5′9″- 6′1″ tall. She told Us Magazine, [Read more →]

Former supermodel and reality tv mogul Tyra Banks has been filming America’s Next Top Model episodes in New Zealand over the past couple of weeks. While there, she took time out to give a speech at the launch of a new beauty campaign, Global Beauty Inside & Out. She gave an emotional speech as she encouraged young women to love themselves from the inside and the outside and she even got teary-eyed. She said, [Read more →]

Last month, model and TV show host Tyra Banks revealed her new body after losing four dress sizes (30 pounds). Over the past couple of years she was leaning on the chubby side but after hard work and dedication she looks like she’s ready for another Sports Illustrated Bikini Issue photo shoot. This week on her show she gets to the nitty-gritty of her weight loss secrets and the fact of the matter is that there was no crazy dieting involved. It was about her exercise plan and managing her eating habits. She says,

“This is a lifestyle change. It’s not about being skinny. It’s about getting in the best shape that you can be.”

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Two years ago, fashion model and TV host Tyra Banks hit the headlines as her weight was creeping up the scales. She received international criticism with articles titled, ‘Tyra Pork Chop’ and ‘America’s Next Top Waddle.’  At the time she brushed off the critisicm and claimed that she loved her body and defended her fuller figure on national television by wearing a swimsuit on her show.  At the height of the criticism she told People Magazine,

“I still feel hot, but every day is different. It’s when I put on the jeans that used to fit a year ago and don’t fit now and give me the muffin top, that’s when I say, ‘Damn!’”

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Tennis champ Serena Williams is on the Tyra Banks show this week where she talks about her body image issues and weight concerns all to promote her new book, On The Line. During the interview Williams emphasized the importance of being positive even if other people criticize you because of weight or abilities. She explained that when she lost her No. 1 ranking and had to have surgery everyone started accusing her of being fat.

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Supermodel, talk show host and all-round diva Tyra Banks shared the secret to her recent weight loss. And no, it’s not the media lambasting her in the tabloids that prompted her to drop the weight. It was watching reruns of Sex and the City episodes.

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Tyra is back and looking better than ever, since the infamous unflattering photos of her in a bathing suit created a firestorm on the tabloid and celebrity website circuit a couple months ago. Rumored to have tipped the scales at 170 lbs in December, she admitted having gained some 30 lbs since her modeling days. She went on a public relations blitz, appearing on the cover of People magazine and devoting a whole episode to the great “weight debate” on her Tyra Banks show. As these new photos reveal she is back in super-model form. How did she do it? [Read more →]