Dab – don’t rub – cream formulas onto your skin. Rubbing washes out the color, so do that only if you’ve put on too much. – Tyra Banks
I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself. – Tyra Banks
Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can’t we just be the sexy American girl next door? – Tyra Banks
It’s kind of embarrassing, but in my early 20s, I used to want to be a princess. But I didn’t want to have to marry somebody in order to do it! – Tyra Banks
I’ve been singing for six years. I’ve been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn’t something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn’t ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right. – Tyra Banks
One of the big, most underlying messages for me is celebrating beauty that is not typical. – Tyra Banks
I don’t have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up. – Tyra Banks
I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ. – Tyra Banks
I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips. – Tyra Banks
I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that’s where I got famous. – Tyra Banks
You’ve got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that’s got it goin’ on. – Tyra Banks
We are often told we can’t have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can put on that red lip and curl your hair and put on that power dress – you don’t have to sacrifice one for the other. – Tyra Banks
There have been top supermodels in the past that weren’t as tall as the industry demands, like fashion icon Kate Moss. – Tyra Banks
I’m very comfortable speaking to millions of people, but not comfortable in a small, intimate social setting. Like cocktail hour. I get very panicky. – Tyra Banks
Even when I was a teen model, I didn’t think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance. – Tyra Banks
Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based. – Tyra Banks
I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off. – Tyra Banks
I have a poverty demon. I’ll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he’ll say, ‘What are you talking about?’ – Tyra Banks
I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I’d never get dressed. – Tyra Banks
I’m frugal. I’ve always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I’d peel off a little each week and have some to spare. – Tyra Banks
