"[The paparazzi] thought they caught me sunbathing, but I was actually modeling in Australia. I remember being on the cover of this magazine and a bunch of tabloids. I was in the grocery store in the line and this woman just looked at me and we were looking at the magazine cover kind of together. I didn't know her, but I'm just kind of looking at it as I'm getting my bread or whatever she says, 'Tyra, if they call you fat, what am I?'"
"I was like, 'Whoah.' That woman, whoever you are, thank you because [you] made me change from just laughing at myself and them calling me that to me saying, 'Am I laughing to keep from crying? And how many people are feeling all of this pressure to look a certain way?'"
These days, the entrepreneur is busy launching her new SMiZE Cream empire and raising her 5-year-old son York.
The Victoria's Secret alum then recalled walking in the brand's famous fashion show with "dimples on my booty." While her fellow supermodels strutted down the runway in barely there lingerie, Banks fearlessly told the press she was instead wearing a skirt to cover what the industry considered a flaw.
"That was progress," she said. "But now [models] are walking down the runway and having the dimples and not putting the skirt on."
"There's constant evolution of everything. I'm happy to have been a part of it, and I'm happy to see people taking it to the next level."
Tyra Banks has long championed the body positivity movement from casting plus-size models on America's Next Top Model to famously telling haters to "kiss" her "fat ass" while wearing a swimsuit on national television.
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"I was like, 'Whoah.' That woman, whoever you are, thank you because [you] made me change from just laughing at myself and them calling me that to me saying, 'Am I laughing to keep from crying? And how many people are feeling all of this pressure to look a certain way?'"
These days, the entrepreneur is busy launching her new SMiZE Cream empire and raising her 5-year-old son York.
The Victoria's Secret alum then recalled walking in the brand's famous fashion show with "dimples on my booty." While her fellow supermodels strutted down the runway in barely there lingerie, Banks fearlessly told the press she was instead wearing a skirt to cover what the industry considered a flaw.
"That was progress," she said. "But now [models] are walking down the runway and having the dimples and not putting the skirt on."
"There's constant evolution of everything. I'm happy to have been a part of it, and I'm happy to see people taking it to the next level."
Tyra Banks has long championed the body positivity movement from casting plus-size models on America's Next Top Model to famously telling haters to "kiss" her "fat ass" while wearing a swimsuit on national television.
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