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I just want you to be yourself. Be a bigger yourself.

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Tyra Banks
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 4
Actor
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Film Actor
Model
Musician
Singer
Television Actor
Television Personality
Television Presenter
Inglewood
California
Tyra Lynne Banks
Tyra Banks
Empowering
Bigger
Inspirational
Women

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Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.
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I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year - to really dissect the budget.
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I don't like the label 'plus-size' -- I call it 'fiercely real.' On 'Top Model,' we call it fiercely real. I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.
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