Tyra Banks ::Refused Vogue

Tyra Banks,former supermodel and host of "America's Next Top Model" -- praises the decision, but still criticizes the fashion industry, writing that her famous curves make her too big for most modeling gigs.

While she says Vogue is stepping up to the plate to make modeling a healthier career path, she stresses that the thin requirement is something set by the industry -- which creates runway items in a teensy sample size. To keep working, says Banks, a model will do whatever it takes to fit into those clothes. "The truth is that if I was just starting to model at age 17 in 2012, I could not have had the career that I did," she writes at The Daily Beast. "I would've been considered too heavy. 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." Banks recounts what happened when she began to get "curvy." 

She says her agency gave her mom a list of designers that no longer wanted to work with her. But Banks credits that moment for pushing her to even greater stardom. "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." Tyra goes on to suggest that models be protected by a guild -- a union that would set some basic rules on age, size and help to prevent discrimination or pressure to lose weight no matter the cost to one's health.

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Tyra Banks : New Boyfriend

The 'America's Next Top Model' host is said to be smitten with the mystery man after meeting him on a 'spiritual break' in Bali, which she went on to get over her split from long-term boyfriend John Utendahl. A source told People magazine: 'It's a total long-distance romance. But it's a big deal.' Tyra met her beau on her trip around Bali last month and after flying home to New York, she turned right around and flew back to Bali to spend the Christmas holidays with him.

Tyra separated from banker John in December after three years together and decided to seek solace in the Far East with a female friend. A source said: 'Tyra has gone away with a female friend and has been island-hopping, visiting Bali and taking a spiritual retreat.' News of the couple's split comes as a shock as earlier this year Tyra admitted she wanted to have a baby. The former supermodel said: 'I definitely want babies.'

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Tyra Banks :: Study At the Harvard Business School

Super model Tyra Banks says she started studying at Harvard Business School in Boston last year.

 The former supermodel, talk-show host and "Top Model" star told CBS News: "I get mixed reactions. There are little facial expressions. ... The chin goes back, like, 'Really?'"

"I'm, like, 'Yeah, I'm going.' How do I react to that? I kind of take a pause and kind of analyze what this is. And a lot of it is just shock."

Tyra, 37, said she enrolled in Harvard's Owner/President Management Program so she could learn the best strategies for handling her media company, Bankable Productions, and charitable work.

The business management program requires students spend three weeks on campus a year for three years, CBS News noted.

 She Said:
"In order for my company to grow and be the best, and to reach these women, and to serve them, I needed the best. So I went to the best,"

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