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Tyra Banks strips down to promote new season
If you happened to be lucky enough to be in New York’s Union Square on Monday, you might have glimpsed supermodel turned TV celebrity Tyra Banks naked — well, sort of. (See the picture at right)
She was promoting the upcoming season of “The Tyra Banks Show,” her chat program that moves to the CW network this fall. It is the same network that airs Tyra’s “America’s Next Top Model” reality TV contest.
So Tyra stripped down to her knickers, make that a body suit, to say to the world that her new season is going to be about “celebrating inner and outer beauty and owning and rocking what you’ve got.”
Tyra has always been outspoken about women’s body images and the media’s perception of them. Readers may remember a few years back when several celebrity publications ran some rather unflattering pictures of Tyra in a bathing suit. Afterward, she went on her own media campaign to respond, saying things to the effect of, “so what. I am who I am, and this is the body I have.” Our words, not hers. But we say, “You go girl!”
And to support her new season’s campaign of “rocking what you’ve got,” Tyra is going one step further. On the show’s Sept. 8 premiere, she is taking the weave out of her hair and appearing au naturel — her hair, that is. ”No fake hair,” Tyra says in a release promoting the show, “I’m rocking my REAL hair.”
(photo credit: Warner Bros/Michael Loccisano)
How many other super models do you see putting themselves out there, taking risks as big as she does, taking criticism for her passion and turning it into yet more encouragement for many young women? She is a prime example of how one can achieve great success when one works hard and goes after what they desire with all their might. Putting her down right now really doesn’t do much anyway because when you look up the word Tyra, you find her picture. Keep doing what you do, girl. Show us where passion will get us.