Top model Tyra Banks, which won the hearts of millions of fans around the world, became famous at the age of seventeen. Today, a successful and self-sufficient African-American woman is an actress, singer, producer and TV presenter. It is fair to say that as a model of Tyra Banks has achieved world fame, and a lot of capital gave her a commercial breakthrough in the role of producer and the leading popular American talk show. In addition, her name is well known to representatives of the LGBT community, since Tyra is an ardent defender of their rights, for which she received a special GLAAD award in 2009.
On the way to success
Biography of Tyra Banks, unlike her personal life, is not a secret to the public. A girl who was born in 1973 in Inglewood, at the age of six, survived the divorce of her parents. Despite disagreements, her mother and father were able to remain friends, for which Tyra and her elder brother Devin are immensely grateful to them. Tyra Banks was a calm but purposeful girl in her childhood, so after graduation she easily entered the University of California. At the same time, she decided to try herself as a model. University Tyra did not finish, but her dream was realized. Already in 17 years after the first defile on the Parisian catwalk, the girl was able to choose whom to sign the contract, because the proposals from famous designers were counted in dozens! Such a successful beginning of the career of Tyra Banks continued to cooperate with the fashion houses Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, H & M, Oscar de la Renta, Christian Dior, Donna Karan , Michael Kors and others. Already at the age of twenty-four, the girl became a supermodel of the year, and the photograph of the first in the history of the world-famous brand Victoria's Secret African American decorated the cover of the new catalog.
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In 2005, at the age of 32, Tyra decided to put an end to the modeling career, immersing herself in a new project - a television show.
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Career on TV
The first project of Tyra, launched in conjunction with Ashton Kutcher, was the show "Beauty inside out," in which participants competed for a huge cash prize. In parallel, the beginning producer has launched a talk show "The Tayra Banks Show", which lasted until the year 2010. However, the real breakthrough was the project "Top Model in American" with Tyra Banks as a producer, judge and presenter.
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But the personal life, which the model Tyra Banks does not advertise, yet develops. After numerous but short-lived novels, she never married. In 2013 she met Erik Asla, an artist from Holland. It is rumored that Tyra Banks and her civic husband do not reject the idea of adopting a child in the near future.
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