Tyra Banks was on Larry King Live last night. She talked about body image, her real hair, growing up a geek, her new magaline, and more.
Tyra wants all women to have a healthy body image, including herself. Even though she’s lost a lot of weight in the past year, she’s done her best to always feel good about her body, no matter what size she is.

No, unless the lighting is bad in the dressing room. But, no. I always feel good. But sometimes certain clothes, when I put them on and they don’t fit the way that I would like …read more

This Sunday, the CW is going to count down the top ten most memorable moments on The Tyra Banks Show. The hour-long special will look back at Tyra’s journey over the past 680 episodes, relive memorable moments and give us a backstage look at what happens when the cameras aren’t rolling.
The press release promises:

The model turned mogul traces her steps through 680 buzzworthy shows, noted for their groundbreaking social experiments, undercover investigations, and interviews with celebrities and newsmakers. The special will also revisit the show’s signature take on compelling social issues relevant to the audience and the takeaway information it …read more

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Tyra Banks has signed on to do a guest spot on the CW hit Gossip Girl – and she isn’t playing herself.
Tyra’s character is somehow connected to Hilary Duff’s character. Hilary is doing a multiepisode guest spot as a famous actress who wants a normal college experience and becomes Vanessa’s roommate at NYU.
My guess? Tyra plays Hilary’s overbearing manager or agent or similar.
Tyra has appeared as herself in a few films recently, including Hannah Montana: The Movie and Tropic Thunder. Her last real acting gig was a guest role in 2004 on American Dreams. …read more

Tyra Banks has decided to join the rest of us in the blogosphere and launched her own blog. Titled “Tyra Talks” the blog will explore different interests of Tyra and show us different events she attends. It launched April 30th and so far she’s covered the CW UpFronts, her favorite new song, and the White House Correspondents dinner.

Tyra is trying very hard to inject the same personality she presents on her talk show into these posts. I personally find the writing style a bit annoying, but Tyra’s new to this so I’ll cut her some slack. And I have …read more

Three episodes of The Tyra Banks Show and the series America’s Next Top Model are nominated for GLAAD Media Awards. The GLAAD Media Awards celebrate and recognize fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community, as well as the issues that affect their lives, their families and their communities.
This year is the 20th annual GLAAD Media Awards. The ceremonies will be helf New York on March 28, 2009 at the Marriott Marquis; in Los Angeles on April 18 at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE; and in San Francisco on May 9 at the Hilton San …read more

Today is Tyra Banks’s 35th birthday. I wish her a happy birthday and cheers to a happy, healthy and successful year!
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I wonder how Tyra will celebrate the big day. Will she have a big party or a small gathering for family and friends? Maybe she;ll just have a romantic dinner for two with her boyfriend. How do you think Tyra should celebrate her birthday?

Forbes released a list of 10 Hollywood moguls in the making, that is, ten stars who they think are going to dominate Hollywood for years to come.
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Tyra Banks came in on the list at #5. They cited her many television projects and modeling gigs, such as her appearance in Harper’s Bazaar as Michelle Obama as proof of Tyra’s versatility and longevity.
Beating Tyra on the list were Curtis Jackson, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, and Kanye West. Rounding out the rest of the list were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Avril Lavigne, Pete Wentz and Jessica Simpson.
The list …read more

This Wednesday marked the premiere of Modelville on The Tyra Banks Show.
Cycle 10’sFatima Siad, Lauren Utter and Dominique Reighard, Cycle 8’s Renee Alway, and Cycle 9’s Bianca Golden are competing for a $50,000 modeling contract. Tyra claims these girls were chosen specially because they “touched her in a very special way.”
Each model has to keep a blog while they are in the Modelville house. You can read each of their blogs here: Bianca, Fatima, Lauren, Dominique, and Renee.
In this video, Tyra introduces each contestant and the show itself. Lauren looks really polished. Bianca talks about her airport fight. It …read more

Tyra Banks made an appearance at Miley Cyrus’s sixteenth birthday party at Disneyland over the weekend. The celebration was huge with stars like David Archuleta, Demi Lovato, Cody Linley, Emiley Osment, and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Miley’s birthday isn’t until November. I wonder what she’ll do on her real birthday!
I think it’s a bit odd that Tyra was invited to a sweet sixteen party. Also odd was Tyra’s gift to Miley–a picture of Tyra as a sixteen year old! Thanks to Matthew, below is a video with Tyra talking about her gift.

What do you think? Is such a present super-sweet? Or …read more

Tyra Banks is expanded the Top Model franchise to include her own daytime talk show The Tyra Banks Show. Modelville, a show-within-a-show will premiere on the October 8 episode.
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Modelville will follow former America’s Next Top Model contestants Fatima Siad, Renee Alway, Lauren Utter, Bianca Golden and Dominique Reighard as they continue to pursue their modeling dreams.
Al the girls will live in a house together and complete a series of challenges. The winner will receive a $50,000 modeling contract.
You can see a preview video here. It looks like the drama heats up quickly!
While I think this …read more