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Banks Will Pay for Top Model Contestant's Sex Change

'This is not happening,' cries Isis King

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 17, 2008 7:27 PM CST

(Newser) – Tyra Banks shocked a former America's Next Top Model contestant by offering to pay for her sex change, the New York Daily News reports. Transgendered Isis King, booted off the show for flunking a poolside photo shoot, was stunned when Banks said a doctor will operate pro bono. "This is not happening," cried King on the Tyra Banks Show episode, slated to air tomorrow night.

In this photo released by The CW, America's Next Top Model contender Isis King has her makeup applied before a photo shoot for the show in Los Angeles, on May 15, 2008.
In this photo released by The CW, "America's Next Top Model" contender Isis King has her makeup applied before a photo shoot for the show in Los Angeles, on May 15, 2008.   (AP Photo/The CW, Michael Desmond)
In this photo released by The CW, American's Next Top Model contender Isis King is photographed for the show in Los Angeles, Ca. on May 15, 2008.
In this photo released by The CW, American's Next Top Model contender Isis King is photographed for the show in Los Angeles, Ca. on May 15, 2008.   (AP Photo/Pottle Productions, Mike Rosenthal)
Model Tyra Banks poses in the press room after winning Outstanding Talk Show/Imformative during the Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday, June 20, 2008.
Model Tyra Banks poses in the press room after winning "Outstanding Talk Show/Imformative" during the Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday, June 20, 2008.   (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)
Tyra Banks speaks after being honored at the Glamour Women of the Year awards  Monday, Nov. 10, 2008 in New York.
Tyra Banks speaks after being honored at the Glamour Women of the Year awards Monday, Nov. 10, 2008 in New York.   (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
TV host Tyra Banks arrives to the US Weekly 25 Most Stylish New Yorkers party, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008 in New York.
TV host Tyra Banks arrives to the US Weekly 25 Most Stylish New Yorkers party, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008 in New York.   (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh)
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COMMENTS
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jaguarj
Nov 19, 2008 2:13 AM CST
Oh spare me. Banks is such loser..especially when she flaunted her "big fat ass" on the air live. Who gives a shit about her bootie or anyone elses.
Shannonals
Nov 19, 2008 1:13 AM CST
You have got to be kidding me

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