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- NAME: Tyra Banks
- OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur, Model, Talk Show Host
- BIRTH DATE: December 04, 1973 (Age: 39)
- EDUCATION: John Burroughs Middle School, Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Inglewood, California
- Full Name: Tyra Lynne Banks
- AKA: Tyra Banks
- ZODIAC SIGN: Sagittarius
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A former supermodel, Tyra Banks turned her runway success into a multimedia brand and worked at the helm of two successful television series simultaneously.
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Tyra Banks quickly rose to the top of the Modeling charts, gracing the covers of hundreds of magazines and becoming the first African American woman to be on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
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Tyra Banks is the creator and host of "America's Next Top Model,"and was host of her own talk show. In 1996, she became the first African American woman to appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.
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The following year, Banks launched a style and beauty website called typeF.com. She also enrolled at Harvard Business School around this time. The model-turned-entertainment-mogul completed her special course for CEOs and other top executives in early 2012.
Personal Life
Over the years, Banks has been romantically linked with director John Singleton, basketball player Chris Webber, and investment banker John Utendahl. She rarely discusses her romantic life in public, however, and remains unmarried and without children.
Banks is active in a number of social and charitable causes. One of her personal missions has been to help young women deal with self-esteem issues. As early as 1992, when she was only 19 years old, Banks funded a scholarship to help young black women attend her alma mater, the private Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles. In 1998, she wrote Tyra's Beauty Inside & Out, a book aimed at inspiring young women, and a year later she founded TZONE, a foundation aimed at developing teenage girls' independence and self-esteem.
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