Tyra Banks
Model
Tyra Banks is a former model who created the popular TV reality show
America's Next Top Model. Banks was a top supermodel of the 1990s, when she became the first AfricanAmerican model featured on the cover of the
Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Famously curvy even by supermodel standards, she was a regular on fashion magazine covers and in the Victoria's Secret catalog. Banks also dabbled in acting, with appearances in the movies
Higher Learning (1995, with
Jennifer Connelly) and
Coyote Ugly (2000, with Piper Perabo). In the new century she shifted her focus to television. In 2003 she began producing and hosting the reality series
America's Next Top Model. The show was a hit and spawned spinoffs in Germany, Holland, and many other countries. Banks also began hosting her own talk show,
The Tyra Banks Show, in 2005. Banks announced her retirement from modelling the same year, saying she would focus on her television career.
Tyra Banks appears with
Laetitia Casta and
Adriana Lima in our loop on the
Models of Victoria's Secret... She also joins
Marisa Miller in our loop on
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models.
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