Tyra Banks who is?

Tyra Lynne Banks (Los Angeles, California, December 4, 1973) is a supermodel, television presenter and film production company. Banks is recognized as one of the most famous models of the 1990s. Acquired popularity as one of the original annual parade of Victoria's Secret "Angels". In 1997, he became the first African American model posing for swimsuits edition of Sports Illustrated. He retired from modeling in 2005 and since then it is the producer and host of two television shows: America's Next Top Model and The Tyra Banks Show. Currently he is the most famous model of television, according to a U.S. magazine, which also places it as the woman who has income in primetime U.S. television.

Banks was born in Inglewood (California ) and attended Immaculate Heart High School, an independent all-girls Catholic Los Angeles private school. In the growth stage was very thin and often teased her ; she was considered an "ugly duckling " . Banks later said that this was a very difficult time in his life and developed a " pretty major issue of concern about their image."

In 1991 , Banks was about to begin his first year of college at Claremont McKenna College when Elite Model Management gave the 17 his first modeling job . Before entry into the fashion world , Banks had been rejected several times in testing model , a fact that she does not consider states that his first job as the beginning of a long career in fashion :

A representative saw pictures of myself and said I was the only girl who wanted to take Paris. I left not thinking that I would become an important model. I just wanted to earn money for uity_interviews/374/tyra_banks.htm Tyra Banks - Everywoman For All Seasons ] < / ref >.