Tyra Banks is a former supermodel-turned-singer, actress, businesswoman, and TV personality who creates and produces the long-running American reality television series; America’s Next Top Model as well as a number of other shows.
The California native will go down in history as the first woman of African American descent to appear on the covers of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit and GQ Magazine. She is also a successful author whose novel, Modelland, topped the New York Times bestseller list in 2011.
All of her achievements and achievements on and off the slopes have made her one of the highest earning models in the world past or present. Read on to find out more about them.
biography
Tyra Banks was born Tyra Lynne Banks on December 4, 1973, in Inglewood, California, as her parents’ second child; Carolyn and Donald Banks. Her mother worked as a medical photographer while her father worked as a computer consultant. Devin is her older brother’s name.
Banks’ parents divorced when she was just six years old. However, she has insisted that the divorce didn’t make her feel any less loved by her parents. She usually spent weekdays with her mother and weekends with her father. On her birthdays or any other notable day, she got to celebrate it twice with both of her parents, a child of divorce’s dream.
She attended John Burroughs Middle School and Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles, where she graduated in 1991. During high school, at the age of 15, Banks began modeling and when she was 17, she landed her first modeling contract with what was then the largest modeling agency. Elite model management. This comes after she was turned down a number of times by other authorities, one of whom claimed to have racially discriminated against her.Tyra Banks, who had started growing at this ageIn her body, a caramel-colored, tall and curvy beauty whose green eyes could captivate an audience, did her first photoshoot for Seventeen Magazine. After graduating from high school, she enrolled at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where she pursued a graduate degree. However, she decided to give it up to pursue a full-time modeling career in Europe. She moved first to Milan and then to Paris, where she became a sensation, booking 25 runway shows at Paris Fashion Week in 1991.
Banks modeled after Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel,Christian Dior, Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, Givenchy, Valentino, Fendi, Giorgio Armani and many others. She also did ad campaigns for them and other companies like Nike and Pepsi, and appeared on the covers of magazines like Vogue, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Elle.
The fast-rising runway star reached unprecedented height, but by the mid-1990s she began gaining weight, leading her to shed the high-end supermodel fashion physique she desired. It was at this point that Banks decided to return to the United States, where her new physique was welcomed into the lingerie and swimwear modeling industry.
The move proved to be a major pioneering success as Banks became the first African American woman to appear on the cover of GQ, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition and to appear in the Victoria’s Secret lingerie catalogue. In 1997 she was named “Supermodel of the Year”. She was also voted “Favorite Supermodel” twice at the Teen Choice Awards and was named one of People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People” multiple times.
Hit with the bright lights of Hollywood, Banks embarked on an acting career, which includes appearing with Will Smith in ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ and the film ‘Higher Learning.’ She started her own production company, Bankable Productions, which produced a number of her award-winning shows, including The Tyra Banks Show and America’s Next Top Model. She has also started a cosmetics line called TYRA Beauty.
The supermodel-turned-entertainment mogul has since educated herself and enrolled at Harvard Business School, where she completed her specialty course for CEOs and top executives.
Is Tyra Banks Married? boyfriend, husband, son
Tyra Banks has been very successful in keeping her personal life private. Not much is known about the men she dated, aside from Boyz n the Hood director John Singleton and basketball player Chris Webber.
She is currently not married but has a long-term relationship with Norwegian photographer Erik Asla, with whom she had a baby boy, York Banks Asla, born January 2016, through surrogacy.
Short facts about Tyra Banks – height, body measurements, zodiac
Birth name: Tyra Lynne Banks
Birthday: December 4, 1973
Place of Birth: Inglewood, California, USA
Occupation(s): Model, TV personality, producer, businesswoman, actress, author
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Height: 178cm
Weight: 64kg
Measurements: 94-61-91.5 cm (37-24-36 in)
Dress size: 6 (USA) or 36 (EU)
Cup size: 34C
Shoe size : 9 (US) or 41 (EU) or 6 (UK)
Partners: Eric Asla
Children: 1 (York Banks Asla)
