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.Collection: Women
I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.Collection: Food
My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance.Collection: Finance
When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.Collection: Sad
I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.Collection: Food
My mom was a medical photographer, but on the side, she did a before-and-after glam photography business in the house. She would do makeup and hair - and I was her assistant.Collection: Medical
We are often told we can't have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can put on that red lip and curl your hair and put on that power dress - you don't have to sacrifice one for the other.Collection: Beauty
One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'Collection: Mom
I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.Collection: Famous
I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.Collection: Learning
Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!Collection: Positive
Even when I was a teen model, I didn't think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance.Collection: Teen
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.Collection: Smile
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.Collection: Design
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!'Collection: Smile
'Modelland' has always been a part of my mind and my heart. I'm excited that you'll be able to read about this magical world that's been living in my dreams for so many years.Collection: Dreams
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. My mother always told me that came first.Collection: Teen
I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.Collection: Cool
I love the confidence that makeup gives me.
A while ago I said that, 'You know, I like a guy - he doesn't have to be all rich and famous - he can be normal.' And I remember I was walking in the mall, and this guy was like, 'Tyra, I'm normal. I live with my mama. I ain't got a car and I ain't got a job! I'm real normal.' And I'm like, 'That's not normal - that's a loser!'
I used to have this joke: 'Every hallway is a runway.'
I have a lot of bad days.
Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
It's so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.
I have a big forehead, and I got made fun of all time. When I was a little girl, they used to call me 'five-head.'
I actually studied with The Groundlings.
I have a poverty demon. I'll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he'll say, 'What are you talking about?'
I've had my heart broken one too many times.
Sometimes you gotta leave when you're on top.
There's no excuse for rudeness.
I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.
I don't think me walking away from modeling was scary for me. In hindsight, I think it was very risky, when you talk about risk. Because it paid the bills.
Believe it or not, I don't wake up looking like a supermodel.
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.
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.
I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off.
I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.
The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.
I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I work out, my arms look better.
I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.
I know I'm an overachiever, and I'm not apologetic about it.
If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity.
I'm a big fan of Lady Gaga.
Rihanna told me her parents used to argue so intensely, she used to get these headaches, these migraines that were almost not even treatable with medicine. The moment her parents separated, her migraines went away.
I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots.
Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.
I'm not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them.
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.
I have so many goals.