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Totally Tyra

A supermodel turned TV host "wants power." And with two TV shows and a third in the works, she's on her way.

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  • November 2008
    • Banks Will Pay for Top Model Contestant's Sex Change

      Banks Will Pay for Top Model Contestant's Sex Change

      (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. More »

  • June 2008
    • Tyra Says It: She 'Wants Power'

      Tyra Says It: She 'Wants Power'

      (Newser) - The supermodel who hosts two TV shows and sits front-row center at fashion galas insists she is frugal and unhip, but ambitious. "I want power,” 34-year-old Tyra Banks says in a New York Times profile. “The power to make change.” Savvy and outrageous, the follower of Martha Stewart now has young girls listening—and watching. More »

  • January 2008
    • Tyra, Hillary Dish About Bill

      Tyra, Hillary Dish About Bill

      (Newser) - Hillary Clinton talked about her husband's affair with Monica Lewinsky during a taping of The Tyra Banks Show yesterday, People reports. No tears were shed (it's New York, not New Hampshire), and Clinton said she "never doubted Bill’s love for me, ever." Asked to offer advice to other women going through the same thing, she responded, “I say you have to be true to yourself." More »

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In this photo provided by Warner Bros., talk show host Tyra Banks, right, asks Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. to answer questions printed on tissues on The Tyra Banks...   (Associated Press)
Tyra Banks sat down with Barack Obama and asked what he sees in his crystal ball. Obama replied, "The White House."   (AP Photo/Warner Bros,Jason Kempin)
Tyra Banks says, "I want power. The power to make change."   (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)
Tyra Banks, 34, began modeling at 15 in Los Anegeles and was soon whisked off to Paris.   (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
%u201CI think I was put on this earth to instill self-esteem in young girls,%u201D Tyra Banks said.   (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
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