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Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.

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Tyra Banks
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 4
Actor
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Film Actor
Model
Musician
Singer
Television Actor
Television Personality
Television Presenter
Inglewood
California
Tyra Lynne Banks
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Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.
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I just want you to be yourself. Be a bigger yourself.
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Modeling is being a ho, but making it fashion.
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I'm not just retiring from the runway, I'm retiring from all modeling. God, I love saying that! When I was 18, my mom said I have to have a plan. I decided I'd leave on top. I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.
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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 saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth.
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My mother always told me that came first. I started modeling in 11th grade and it was something that I did after school and on the weekends. School is so important and modeling should be treated as an extracurricular activity as opposed to a career until you graduate high school.
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It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.
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I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots.
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I don't like looking at awards everyday because I feel like they can make you lazy. So, I give them to my Mom and let her look at it everyday. They are symbols of the hard work she put into me. Her sacrifices allowed me and my team to win those awards. But I don't look at any awards everyday.
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I won't say if I'm single or dating or married or divorced. There's boundaries.
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I liked college guys but they could tell I was just a skinny girl.
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Flaws are awesome - so, flawsome! I love making up a word.
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Because my hands are rough and wrinkley, they are my least favourite feature. An ex-boyfriend used to call them 'Freddy Kreuger' fingers.
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I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that? If I was in pain, I would have dieted. The pain is not there - the pain is someone printing a picture of me and saying those horrible things.
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I think a lot of business students chase money and then they burn out. They have early retirements, not because they want to retire and chill... But because they hate their job and they are miserable. I don't chase money.
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I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first.
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It was really hurtful to me. I get so much mail from young girls who say, 'I look up to you, you're not as skinny as everyone else, I think you're beautiful.' So when they say that my body is 'ugly' and 'disgusting,' what does that make those girls feel like?
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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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