Tyra Banks Fat? Model Says She'd Be Too Heavy If She Was 17 in 2012
Super Model Praises New Vogue Ban On Girls Who "Appear To Have An Eating Disorder"
Tyra Bank praises the decision of Vogue magazine, which pledged to ban girls who "appear to have an eating disorder". The decision came earlier this month when editors of the magazine agreed to the new stance.
Tyra Banks wrote an open letter to models, which can be seen on The Daily Beast. In it, she talked about how she started to get curvy - which promoted certain designers to drop her from their fashion shows. She wrote, "In order to continue working, I would've had to fight Mother Nature and get used to depriving myself of nutrition. As my mom wiped the tears from my face, she said, "Tyra, you know what we're going to do about this? We're going to go eat pizza." We sat in a tiny pizzeria in Milan and strategized about how to turn my curves into a curveball. In a way, it was my decision not to starve myself that turned me into a supermodel, and later on, a businesswoman."
The model admitted that if she had just started to model at the age of 17 in 2012, she would not have made it in the modeling world. "I would've been considered too heavy," she said. "In my time, the average model's size was a four or six. Today you are expected to be a size zero. When I started out, I didn't know such a size even existed"
In her letter, Banks addresses moms to be the most influential role model in their daughter's life. "Use that power. Teach her to love herself and everything that makes her unique," she writes.
She encourages girls to be "who you are right now" and not follow the body trends which go from being a size zero to having a juicy booty.
