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Transgender contestant on America's Next Top Model
For the first time, the next season of America's Next Top Model, presented by Tyra Banks and set to begin in September, will feature a transgender contestant.
"Some people might say I'm transgender, some people might say transsexual. Personally, I prefer 'born in the wrong body,'" eleventh-season Top Model finalist Isis explains.
Isis is a pre-op 22-year-old non-profit organization program assistant who currently resides in New York City.
"I tell my staff, 'This girl is absolutely amazing. She has to come back for America's Next Top Model,'" Banks asked Isis during the semifinals process. "I said, 'this girl,' and my staff said, 'Tyra, there's something a little different about that girl.' So what's different about that girl?"
"I was born physically male," Isis replied. "But mentally, everything else, I was going female."
Top Model's cast has consisted of only non-transgender women since the show premiered on the now defunct UPN in May 2003, and Banks' decision to include Isis in the upcoming season hasn't gone unnoticed.
"[It's] an unprecedented opportunity for a community that is underrepresented on television," GLAAD president Neil Giuliano told Us Weekly in a Wednesday report. "We applaud Tyra Banks and The CW for making this historic visibility of transgender people possible." For the first time, the next season of America's Next Top Model, presented by Tyra Banks and set to begin in September, will feat... more -
Has Tyra Banks Become the Predator?
Check out the photos and you be the judge.
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tyra banks is michelle obama photoshoot
tyra banks is michelle obama photoshoot I like the photoshoot... I think they were well done!
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Tyra Banks in Wax
A wax figure of Tyra Banks is unveiled at Madame Tussauds on July 24, 2008 in New York City.
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Things We Clapped For: Big Fat Asses
When Tyra says it, it makes people happy. And they clap.
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Tyra Banks - Curvy and Blonde Package
she is looking just a little curvier than in the recent past - oh wait, this impression could also be because she is definitely one of the most photoshopped celebrities out there. Regardless, Tyra is curvaceous... she is looking just a little curvier than in the recent past - oh wait, this impression could also be because she is definitely one of... more
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Race and the Fashion Industry
For the July issue of Italian Vogue, Steven Meisel has photographed only black models. In a reverse of the general pattern of fashion magazines, all the faces are black, and all the feature topics are related to black women in the arts and entertainment. Mr. Meisel was given roughly 100 pages for his pictures. The issue will be on European newsstands next Thursday and in the United States soon after. For the July issue of Italian Vogue, Steven Meisel has photographed only black models. In a reverse of the general pattern of fashion ... more
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Target Women: Suffrage
Hillary Clinton is gone, but her supporters are not forgotten. McCain and Obama are ready to woo anyone with two boobs and one smokin' hot vote. Hillary Clinton is gone, but her supporters are not forgotten. McCain and Obama are ready to woo anyone with two boobs and one smokin&... more
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America's next top...nudibranch?
Photographer David Doubilet takes fashion photography underwater and produces brilliant photographs of toxic nudibranchs—soft, seagoing slugs—that produce a colorful defense. These are models that even Tyra Banks doesn't know about. Photographer David Doubilet takes fashion photography underwater and produces brilliant photographs of toxic nudibranchs—soft, seagoin... more
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Tyra Banks Has Got Some Interesting Hips
Here is Tyra in The New York Times Magazine, looking slightly unusual and sporting some really odd looking hips. Should we pretend that’s her real shape? Whose hips start that high and that roundly, raise... Here is Tyra in The New York Times Magazine, looking slightly unusual and sporting some really odd looking hips. Should we pretend tha... more
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No more 'Top Model' for Tyra Banks?
According to OK! Magazine (hmmm) Banks is not getting along with her photo shoot creative director Jay Manuel. Further, she is trying to throw all her weight into her talk show. So Tyra's days could be numbered on ANTM.
How are you gonna quit a show you started? ANTM is much better than her talk show - she should re-evaluate especially if this rumor is true.
Even if she does leave there is all "Make Me a Supermodel" on Bravo with Tyson and Niki Taylor. Tyson is way more fun to look at than Tyra. So no harm in her leaving. Bye Tyra! According to OK! Magazine (hmmm) Banks is not getting along with her photo shoot creative director Jay Manuel. Further, she is trying... more -
Tyra and Ashton join forces
Why? Well of course to create a reality show. What about? Duh, a group of beautiful people living in a house together (no geeks).
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TYRA BANKS AT NYC FASHION WEEK
THE BEAUTY GRABS A HOT DOG MAN
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...and America's Next Top Model (cycle 9) will be
...Saleisha Cooper! Congrats! Now you can follow in the footsteps of your predecessors, never being heard of again!
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Tyra Banks and her Vagina puppet?
Here we go again!!
tyra is making headlines with her show to show us "what's up down there"
watch this clip- what do you think? Here we go again!! tyra is making headlines with her show to show us "what's up down there" ... more -
The Amazing Words of Wisdom from Tyra Banks on Toilet Tips
Now.....I know some of us have such a hard time using the washroom properly, so here are some tips from Tyra Banks....this needs no further explanation. Now.....I know some of us have such a hard time using the washroom properly, so here are some tips from Tyra Banks....this needs no fu... more
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