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Tyra Banks Quotes

I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.

– Tyra Banks

Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she’s so skinny would one day be called too fat?

– Tyra Banks

The runway symbolizes something in society that’s very intimidating to women.

– Tyra Banks

I’ve had my heart broken one too many times.

– Tyra Banks

I didn’t have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn’t even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn’t understand what I did wrong on those job applications.

– Tyra Banks

Global warming will threaten our crops, so natural food will be scarce. Hourglass, curvy bodies will be the aspirational beauty standard, representing that those women have access to bounties of fulfilling yet healthy food, which means they are affluent.

– Tyra Banks

I don’t know how to be sexy on a date. Put up a camera and a wind machine, and I’ll give you sexy. Put me at a dinner table with some candlelight and the moon shining in and, oh, I will give you dork.

– Tyra Banks

You don’t have to have a ring on your finger to say, ‘I love you.’

– Tyra Banks

I love Boston; it’s like Paris.

– Tyra Banks

I look up to Walt Disney and what he has done.

– Tyra Banks

I look up to Martha Stewart, and I love that she has product lines that are true extensions of her brand.

– Tyra Banks

It’s not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago – bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But I’m also interested in having my own baby, too.

– Tyra Banks

I think every woman would want to do something about their cellulite!

– Tyra Banks

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

– Tyra Banks

I don’t think cellulite is great – that’s not a flaw that I want in a photo by any means! I retouch that crap out. But I tell women that I’m retouching it out.

– Tyra Banks

Sometimes I’ll use four or five different photo apps on one photo just to get it where I want it to be.

– Tyra Banks

I try to keep my private life kind of private.

– Tyra Banks

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

– Tyra Banks

On ‘America’s Next Top Model,’ I mentor girls on television. When that TV goes off, I actually mentor other girls in the modeling industry – girls that have not been on ‘Top Model,’ but who appear in ‘Vogue’ worldwide.

– Tyra Banks

I look at myself and pick out the things I don’t like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.

– Tyra Banks

Believe it or not, I don’t wake up looking like a supermodel.

– Tyra Banks

On ‘America’s Top Model,’ I’ve always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it ‘smizing.’ Over the years, it’s actually become part of pop culture. I would be walking down the street, and girls would say, ‘Smize!’

– Tyra Banks

I don’t wake up with naturally sculpted cheekbones – I paint them on!

– Tyra Banks

I wear my age with pride.

– Tyra Banks

I’m a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it’s okay if there are flaws here and there.

– Tyra Banks

I was always a good student. I wasn’t the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A’s, but I didn’t. I didn’t beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.

– Tyra Banks

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.

– Tyra Banks

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I’d practice in front of the mirror and I’d ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

– Tyra Banks

I don’t like expensive things… I just can’t help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save.

– Tyra Banks

As I look into the future, I see radical changes in both how people ‘attain beauty,’ and how the world perceives beauty. In general, I believe traditional beauty will be less valuable – and more uniqueness will be heralded.

– Tyra Banks

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