Biography
Banks was natural around Inglewood, California and attended Immaculate Heart High School, an all-girls, independent Catholic private school in Los Angeles. Growing higher, Banks was super thinly & typically teased. Around an locate, the model late said that this wwhen the super hard instance for her, as she developed a "very strong self-image problem." [http://www.tyrabanksonline.com/interviews/inter06.shtml]

Yet, she grew as much as exist as the beautiful young lady. Around 1991, Banks was soon to start out her first-month year at Loyola Marymount University when Elite modeling agency gave the 17-season-old her foremost modelling job. Before this entry into a fashion globe, Banks got been rejected many days for modelling assignments. around point of fact, she states that she did non deem her number one job to exist as a run of an extended career in fashion: "An agent saw pictures of me and said that I was the only girl she wanted to take back to Paris […] I didn't leave thinking I was going to be some big fashion model. I just wanted to make money for college." [http://www.papermag.com/cgi-bin/frameset/magazine.cgi?thismonth.html]

Consequently, instead of running to university, Banks attend Paris for fashion shows and shortly gained international fame for her act. She has been featured within the kind of magazines, commercial message, & hoarding. Her modeling credits include CoverGirl, Swatch, Pepsi, Nike, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, and Dolce & Gabbana, among many others. When many years, it emerged that Naomi Campbell was not particularly fond of Banks' increasing profits, by owning a British supermodel trying to own Banks excluded from either shows for Chanel.

Despite these confrontations, Tyra's career took off: Banks was a number 1 African-American to be featured on the covers of ''Gentlemen's Quarterly, Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue, and the Victoria's Secret'' catalog. Particularly, Tyra is far-famed for her Victoria's Secret operate. Within 1997, Tyra won the prestigious Michael Award for Supermodel of the Year. Inside the instance where the bit of manikin were described when existence as well skinny, Banks stood out using a further-voluptuous physique (she is Little phoebe' Ten½" tall and her measurements are 34½-23½-35½). Banks had to work hard to persuade fashion designers that her physique was well-suited to the catwalk, and succeeded. I was proactive [...] I told my agency to call Victoria's Secret, and I told them to call Sports Illustrated [...] I said my body is changing, and seamstresses are calling me grosso in Italian, and I know what the hell that means. And I'm not about to starve."

Banks addressed her physique within an locate by having The Sun: "I am totally against plastic surgery. A lot of people think I have breast implants because I have the biggest boobs in the business. But I was a 34C when I was 17… They stay up when I wear a push-up bra. But if people could see me when I come home and take off my bra, how could they think these are fake?" [http://get.to/tyra] when a matter of fact, Tyra has been known for existence pleased her immune system, as a ensuing comment all about her breasts & her tail indicate: "Some models are quite flat-chested so they can run around without bouncing. I can't […] Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. Black men love big butts." As a matter of fact, Banks has make sure of shaking by having her tail, when walking down the runway, particularly when you took Victoria's Secret fashion shows. This hwhen been commented upon by fans of the supermodel, also as Banks herself.

Despite her wow profits as the supermodel, Banks began venturing from either modelling to becoming a media personality. She is the carrier, main judge, & executive producer (by having Ken Mok) of the UPN television show ''America's Next Top Model. By using rising ratings, a indicate hwhen get super popular, as viewers cheer for their favourite model contestant in a period of the each week cycles involving "Big Brother"-style elimination of candidates. Banks has besides been working in the musical career. Around year 2 of Usa's Next Top Model'' a contestants danced inside her number 1 music cd.

Since so, she has been in the studio working sustaining experient record producers such as Darkchild; her next single is known as "Baby". She besides acts when a patron for TZONE, a leadership programme for jeune fille that based on data from the organisation, "reinforces core values of trust and support, challenges teen girls to resist negative social pressures, and enhances self-empowerment—inspiring girls to become confident leaders in their communities." She has besides established a Tyra Banks Scholarship, a fund aimed at providing African-Western girls the chance to attend her alma mater, Immaculate Heart High School.

On her private life, non very much is known. Banks has got the total of high-profile relationships using director John Singleton and, later on, Seal (who married Banks' colleague Heidi Klum in 2005). Banks has expressed her preference for the relationship by owning the "normal guy" sequentially to escape a pressures of existence together using an additional easily-known celebrity (& a media scrutiny that go with it). Her home wealth is judged to exist as at $US 8.8 million, making her one of a 5 richest supermodels at this period.

Filmography

Larceny (2004)

Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

Coyote Ugly (2000)

Love & Basketball (2000)

Life-Size (2000)

Love Stinks (1999)

A Woman Like That (1997)

Higher Learning (1995)

Television
Banks has got recurring roles on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Felicity.

Banks is the unsuspecting hosts, primary judge, & executive producer (sustaining Ken Mok) of the UPN television show America's Next Top Model. By having rising ratings since its 2003 premiere, the indicate has turn into the hit. She has the newly daytime talk show that premiered in fall 2005 called The Tyra Banks Show''. A indicate may feature stories just about everyday population. Couple of celebrities is on the indicate, lot such as Oprah Winfrey's early years, to which her show is already existence equated. Based on data from a foremost hints given on a web site, the indicate's construct might revolve around individual-interest stories, designed to "focus on the dreams, hopes and challenges of today's women."

Under a motto "Every woman has a story," Banks is presently promoting her indicate - likewise by resorting to emotional flashbacks to her have childhood & adolescence. A indicate premiered in September 12, 2005, in the U.S. television market. In an episode in the indicate's number one year, Banks underwent the sonogram to prove that her breasts are not fake. [http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/22/people.banks.reut/index.html]

Music
Around music, Banks has appeared inside Michael Jackson's "Black or White" streaming videos once Glen Chin morphs into her, and using fellow supermodel Linda Evangelista in George Michael's "Too Funky" streaming video. Inside 2005, she likewise recorded her number 1 only, "Shake Ya Body," featuring basketball star Kobe Bryant; however, it has non resonated swell sustaining a purchasing public therefore far.