Tyra Banks was fat and black

May 29, 2008

Posted in: Tyra Banks

Tyra Banks had a miserable modeling life because she was, get this: black and curvy.

“My biggest obstacle was that I was black and curvy,” admits the Inglewood, California, native, now 34, who began posing in the 11th grade.

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Around the mid-90s — after hitting the runway in Paris and taking a stab at swimsuit modeling — she began putting on some weight.

She says her agency once made a list titled, “Designers who will not book Tyra because of hips and breasts.”

They even had a meeting with Banks’ mother, urging her to put her daughter on a diet.

“My mother told me the whole thing as we were walking down the street in Milan,” Banks said. “She said, ‘They say you’re too curvy. Let’s go order pizza.’ We walked into a pizzeria, and we discussed a career change.”

Well I’m glad Tyra finally isn’t “black and curvy”.  Now she’s a huge annoying bitch who whines about anything and everything.  That’s a much better trade off.  I prefer fat sassy black women to chunky annoying black women.

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