Tyra Banks Thinks Plastic Surgery Is "Absolutely Fantastic" For Those Who Are Not Genetically Blessed
Supermodel and "America's Next Top Model" host Tyra Banks realizes that models, herself included, are genetically blessed, and told Yahoo! Singapore that she thinks plastic surgery is "absolutely fantastic."
Banks said she is frustrated with other models who speak negatively about plastic surgery. "What're you talking about? You won the genetic lottery," Banks told Yahoo! Singapore. "You look like this specimen that's making people everywhere feel insecure and you're going to ridicule someone for getting plastic surgery?"
In May, Banks told US Weekly: "This is who I am! I'm Tyra Banks and I have cellulite! That makes me 'flawsome' because I own it as part of what makes me unique. Don't get me wrong: I don't think my cellulite is beautiful, but I think it's 'flawsome.'"
Banks has made it her mission to build the self-esteem and confidence of girls and young women ever since she founded the T-Zone in 1999.
"My main mission is to get girls to realize their inner and outer beauty and have high self-esteem with both," she said during the US Weekly interview. "'Flawsome,' for me, is about being flossy, amazing and awesome with our flaws and celebrating those, too."
America's Next Top Model's is going into its nineteenth season and throughout its course, Banks has remained committed to featuring "fiercely real" (a term she uses instead of plus-sized) models and who possess uncoventionally attractive qualities.
"I choose the girls that are covered with freckles or super duper pale," she told US Weekly. "Those things, to me, are really beautiful. I want to spread that message more that those are the things that make us unique.
The premier of America's Next Top Model Cycle 19: College Edition begins Friday, August 24 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.
