Tyra Banks is a popular American actress, businesswoman, singer, and television personality who also became the first African American to land star covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
Date of Birth: Dec 04, 1973
Age: 46
Net value: 90 million
Place of birth: Inglewood, California
Height (m): 1.80
Religion: Christianity
Tyra Banks Biography
She was born on December 4, 1973 in Inglewood, California, which makes her nationality an American.
She was born to Carolyn London and Donald Banks. Her mother was a photographer while her father was an IT consultant. She also has a brother named Devin, who is five years older than her. She graduated from Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles.
Her weight has changed. There was a time when the supermodel went down to size 42. There was a true story that the tabloids called her “pork chop.” she retorted, “I was taught to enjoy food, not to be afraid of it.
Get off my big ass.” Instagram shows that she loves good food, and maintains her weight thanks to tennis and basketball. However, no parameters and no weight have stopped her from remaining one of the highest paid people in the world podium.
Tyra Banks Career
After school, the girl was accepted best California universities , but she decided to take the bull by the horns and immediately pursue a career. Her biography began at the age of 15 with a photo shoot for the legendary teen magazine Seventeen.
Looking at old photos, you can see the characteristics that determined success: incredible control of the face and body, the ability to create an image, precise physical parameters , and unique proportions – legs, height, weight and physique.
At the age of 17, model Tyra Banks left for Paris and made a vertical takeoff in her career – 25 designers immediately offered her to participate in fashion shows. It was a fabulous growth in the modeling business, the other on the high podium will not be remembered.
The racists were ashamed ofthe agencies who said to her face:”Go home, girl, onlythe black model was already,and that’s enough”
In her youth, from 1991 to 2005, model Tyra managed to work for all famous brands , her face graced the pages of leading fashion magazines of the world.
She has a history of being a trailblazer, as the first black woman in a bikini, she posed for The Sports Illustrated Issue. The magazine has been published since 1954 and is a chronicle of American pop culture and sports.
She also became the first black “angel” in the Victoria’s Secret catalog, and also entered Playboy’s “gold” issue (May 1997) with Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Kate Moss.
It is said that this was the beginning of his confrontation with Naomi Campbell, which lasted for many years . Echoes of the conflict with Campbell were heard in 2014, the gossip buzzing on Twitter.
The biography of TV presenter began in 2005 with the creation of The Tyra Show, a few years later he won the Daytime Emmy Award. After 4 years, the American LGBT Association awarded the show for tolerance and humanity.
She chose experts and heroes regardless of origin, orientation, race or hair color. The conservative part of the society was shocked by the brilliant characters of this show. Since then, the social weight and importance of the leader have only increased.
She transformed the idea of ​​beauty that existed before her:
“Girls of all types can be beautiful – thin, fat, short and very tall; black like ebony and white like porcelain; strange, clumsy, shy and elusive. It’s not easy, because people are still trying to incorporate beauty as part of their ideas. But my thinking is broader than theirs.
Since then, our banks have continued to explode public beauty stereotypes, helping millions of women believe in themselves.
But real success and real results she brought the “America’s Next Top Model” project. It was a real explosion and sensation. Viewership growth has unfolded like an avalanche, and in 2014 it reached tens of millions worldwide.
Since 2003, America’s Next Top Model has enjoyed 21 seasons, and in 2014 a contract was signed for the 22nd. The program has spawned sister projects in 30 countries.
The official site reflects all geography and scale. As for the United States, 10 to 13 girls are chosen from hundreds of girls and forced to live the life of a model, in each series eliminating one of the most unsuitable for this profession.
And only one, the strongest, toughest and most stubborn model becomes America’s top model. She tried to make the show perfect.
“I don’t want to slow down. I know that I am a very successful woman and a perfectionist. I will always strive to be the best.”
Perhaps perfectionism led her to fire the three main judges and pundits after the 18th season. They were Nigel Barker, Jay Manuel and Jay Alexander. Although there have been rumors that the show’s producers pressured the presenter, she reportedly “returned” the trinity of top experts.
After the dismissal, Jay Manuel did not lose his mind, but became one of the leaders of the show “Canadian Top Model“, and Miss Jay Alexander is still considered the best catwalk coach in the world. Jay Manuel is famous for his sharp tongue and ability to bring even the most persistent models to tears.
The success of the model and singer became the envy of another “black panther” – Naomi Campbell. She and Campbell’s interests have crossed paths several times in the modeling business and on television. Naomi even tried to block her rival’s career.
In response, she heard the accusation that Naomi’s new program idea “The Face” is being written off Tyra’s show. In defiance of her rival, Naomi invited Nigel Barker, fired from the American supermodel, to be her assistant. However, Hollywood tabloids wrote that Naomi Campbell repented and even sobbed on her rival’s chest.
In 1998, an autobiographical book was published, and then a teenage novel “Modelland” by writer Banks. An old childhood dream has come true – to become an actress. In 2014, she starred in 15 films. Hollywood critics particularly noted the role in the film “Love and Basketball”, where she played the mother of a teenager in love with her school teacher.
The first collection of cosmetics by perfumer was presented in 2014, in three lines and went down in history under the names: It Factory, Tyover and Smize . surname – from the philosophy of beauty, sketched by Tyra in the book “Beauty from within and without.” Smize means “smile with the eyes”.
Lines include blush, foundation, mascara, lipstick, concealer and eyeliner – everything a woman needs for quick and effective makeup. Jay Manuel has given a lot of advice on this issue.
During the creation, the authors also took care of the compact packaging, which will go well in the travel makeup bag of a woman in a hurry. It is worth watching promotional videos of cosmetics: Tyra is inimitable and energetic.
Tyra Banks Filmography
- Undercover cops
- Higher Education
- mad tv
- Fashion magazine
- Hughley
- love and basketball
- Coyote Ugly Bar
- America’s Next Top Model
- soldiers of failure
- Hannah Montana: The Movie
Tyra Banks Net Worth
She is also a businesswoman as she has her own cosmetics brand Tyra Beauty which was found in 2014. To foster her cosmetics business, she also completed a non-degree certificate program at Harvard Business School. 
She has an estimated net worth of $90 million, but her monthly and annual salary or income has not been listed.
She is also active on Instagram where she has around 5.6 million followers. She usually shares articles about her work and even her personal life.
Tyra Banks Personal Life
She is one of the beautiful women in the world. She has a lot of fans, most of whom are men, of course.
And many of them are curious about her relationship status or who she is dating. If you’re wondering, we’ll reveal who her husband is, we won’t let you down.
She is quite open about her relationship experiences and has expressed some of her toxic relationships on camera. She is famous with a Norwegian photographer Never Plum during the 2010s. After dating for a while, they had their first child with York Banks Asla, who was born through surrogacy. 
In 2016, Tyra Banks, 42, had her first child. On January 27 of this year, York Banks’ son Asla was born, whom the couple endured as a surrogate mother .
It is known that the model had been dreaming of a child for a very long time and did not consider her life complete without an heir, however, due to physiological problems, she could not get pregnant on her own.
She annonced her arrival at the family the day after the birth of her son.
