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By Karu F. Daniels, AOL Black Voices
Tyra Banks may have dressed up like an obese woman --as an experiment for her daily talk show-- but the former 'Sports Illustrated' cover girl has taken umbrage to the notion that she is really "fat."
On the Feb. 1 edition of her eponymous, Emmy Award winning chatfest, Banks will confront the tabloids and gossip websites that ran unflattering photos of her in a bathing suit over the holidays with headlines blaring, "America's Next Top Waddle," "Tyra Porkchops," "Former Model Tyra Banks Reminds the World Why She is Now Retired from the Runway," and "Dude, Did Tyra Gain Like 50 Pounds Below the Neck?"
Always willing to go all out for her television viewers, the fashion icon --admitting to putting on some weight over the holidays -- stands in front of the televised studio audience in the exact same bathing suit next to a life-size cut-out of the tabloid photo to demonstrate how a simple shift in body position or a change in a camera angle can "add weight" in a photo creating the "money shot." She admits that in the photo "... the booty is a little thick," but shares with her audience how the tabloids are ridiculously obsessed with weight.
"Luckily, I'm strong enough and I have a good enough support system. . . My mama has helped me to be a strong woman so I can overcome these kinds of attacks, but if I had a lower self-esteem, I'd probably be starving myself right now. That's exactly what is happening to women all over this country," the former Victoria's Secret spokesperson said.
Banks adds, "I'm happy to be 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model and I felt like that was a positive image especially with what's going on now in society with models and women hating themselves and hating their bodies."
"So I have something to say to all of you who have something nasty to say to me or to other women that are built like me, women who sometimes or all the time look like this, women whose names you know, women whose you don't, women who've been picked on, women whose husbands put them down, women at work or girls at school, I have one thing to say to you: KISS MY FAT ASS!"
Alrightee then.
It is quite just that, too.
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By: LaFonda on 2/21/2007 8:54PM
Her curves are kickin! i don know bout you ha-ders, but alls i know is dat gurrl she is fine. i love tyra. you go gurrl!
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By: mary stallworth on 2/22/2007 12:53PM
MAYBE TYRA YOU ARE COMMING OVER A LITTLE TO STRONG AS FOR AS DEFENDING THE PLUS WOMEN OR WOMEN IN GENERAL FOR THAT MATTER. ALMOST EVERYONE GAIN WEIGHT AT SOME POINT IN THEIR LIVES,UNLESS OF COURSE THEY BECOME OBSESSED WITH WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT THEM. YOU EXPRESSING ANGRY TO THESE PEOPLE ,WHAT DO YOU THINK THE WOMEN ARE FEELING YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO HELPING TO FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES?? I AM 4'11 AND WT 110 I USED TO REALLY SKINNY WHEN I WAS YOUNGER. I EVEN THOUTH I WAS GETTING FAT,WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT !!!!!
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By: cheyenne on 2/22/2007 2:36PM
people need to leave her alone at least she is making money and she is very pretty and she got it going .so you do your thing tyra.
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By: cheyenne on 2/22/2007 2:36PM
people need to leave tyra alone at least she is doing something with her life and she is not out there all over the news making a fool of herself like alot of people i see in the news everyday.you go tyra you are still very beautiful.
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By: BethelCollege on 2/22/2007 6:05PM
Tyra has a problem with her weight, or she is brilliantly guiding potential viewers to the show!? Publicity Stunt! BRILLIANT
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By: mathmatics on 2/22/2007 8:38PM
your own love u the way you r now, which is what u ( tyra ) probably hate most, being seen as part of the group that you actually belong to, possessing all the " stereotypical " curves that this minority group is known for
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By: Djuna on 2/24/2007 12:52PM
The women on Top Model need to be model thin if they want to be models. Tyra is not trying to hurt their feelings;she is trying to prepare them for an extremely tough industry. She is probably a lot kinder to them than anyone else involved with the industry is going to be. I think that models should be a size more in keeping with a healthy realistic life style, so we can send woen young and older the right message
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By: Danielle on 4/16/2007 9:45PM
Okay. for one, I dont think there's anything wrong with how tyra looks. She's no stick, but her weight is well proportioned and she looks good. and sure she dished it out on the girls for next top model--because they were TRYING TO BE MODELS! tyra's done being a model, she's a talk show host. you don't see oprah rockin the bikinis! tyra's no longer a model, she doesn't have to be unnaturally skinny and gaunt looking. however, those girls trying to make it big did have to so stop gettin on her back about dishin it out to them and not being able to take it. she can dish it out to them because they need it to be successful, however, she doesn't need it because she already IS succesful, a gorgeous woman who, even though she isn't a gaunt stick, is still prettier and more natural looking than any model out there.
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By: Renee on 2/25/2007 2:56AM
I'm happy that tyra is setting a positive for us women that are on the curvy side. what the modeling industry fails to realize is that there a millions upon millions of girls that would literally starve themselves to be that skinny. But not all women are built to be a size zero. So to all my curvy women out there be proud of your curves embrace them.
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