Tyra Banks Lost Weight While Watching SATC
People Magazine reports:
Is there anything the ladies of Sex and the City can’t do? Not only do they live out cosmopolitan fantasies in boardroom-sized shoes closets – they’ve also helped Tyra Banks lose weight.
In an episode of The Tyra Show to air Friday, Banks describes how a new treadmill and watching the show about Carrie Bradshaw’s romantic travails helped her get her supermodel body back.
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“I got rid of one of my couches in my living room and I watched Sex and The City episodes on the treadmill or the elliptical,” she says. “So Sex and the City lasts 30 minutes – that’s how long I’m on the elliptical.”
But Banks, who is joined by a nutritionist, says the media blew things out of proportion when people noticed she was shedding pounds after getting lambasted for putting on weight.
“The media started taking notice and showing pictures of before and after of me losing weight, and I felt kind of exposed because I wasn’t trying to proclaim to the world, ‘I got fit and I got healthy and I got in shape,’ because I felt kind of conflicted especially after the ‘Kiss my fat ass’ thing,” she says. “It’s still fat by the way.”
She looks great!
Right ! she looks great and I think she is the funniest top model we’ve never seen and I love her show she doing pretty good actually it doesn’t bother me her weight she is a good host
I think she looks fabulous at any weight. Even she were overweight (which she never was) she’d still be awesome. I don’t understand why people have to criticize others for their weight. If someone’s overweight why should we care? It’s that person’s problem, that person should deal with it!
she’s always been super hot to me, independently from her weight ups and downs. She’s tall and has fabulous bone structure (and is GORGEOUS, btw), so she can afford to put on extra weight (without looking fat), and lose it (without ever looking too skinny). I love this woman
I agree 100% with everyone who wrote above. Tyra, is an amazing women, 20lbs heavier or lighter. She is an inspiration to girls and women everywhere. I love her “this is me, take it or leave it” attitude.
When I first moved to NYC, the very first thing I did was get tickets to see her show. Oh my goodness, that woman is freaking GORGEOUS in person! The pictures honestly don’t do her enough justice.
Celebs are usually worse looking in person, but I was definitely awestruck.
I also like her comments on her weight as well. It was refreshing not to have another Kelly/Kim/Kourtney/Khloe-esque remark. But one that was just honest and straight forward.
Why can’t the media let people lose weight or get fat in peace, huh?
Woe betide any pazz that harass me whilst i’m doing my Tae Bo workout or indulging in double portions of rice and chicken!
She is a refreshingly real celeb. I love her dress, btw! And hair, and welll everything!
Tyra looks great with less weight on her and a better wig (like above), but her personality sucks now, which is sad b/c I really liked her during her modeling days. I’m just tired of her making everything about her- ever watch her talk show?? Or even ANTM? Every topic or modeling challenge she manages to makes about herself, every sad story just happens to relate to something in *her* life. She can’t just let the person tell their story of hard times, she has to be all “look everyone, over here, don’t forget about me!! i was abused too!” or “You can’t do that pose, but watch ME do it!” ugh.
I agree. She’s pretty, but I don’t like her personality from what I’ve seen. Also, I saw an episode of her show with this East Asian woman who had eyelid surgery. She still looked Asian, by the way. She tried to explain that East Asian people have more fat in their eyelids (that’s a fact) and that, as she aged, hers started to droop too much and she felt she looked tired. Tyra constantly kept butting in after that and trying to accuse her of being a poor, helpless, brainwashed idiot who wanted more than anything to be white! She projected all her insecurities (e.g. about her hair) onto this woman and would not allow her to speak. As if Tyra knows more about this woman’s feelings than the woman herself and that what Tyra believes is fact. Irritated me so much.
i saw that too! as a korean woman who’s had eyelid surgery, i was SO irritated. there’s no way that i wanted to be white, and there’s no way that anyone could mistake me for a white person. it’s a fairly common procedure, akin to a jewish girl getting a nosejob on her 18th birthday
Exactly! Now if she also bleached her hair, eyebrows and eyelashes, wore coloured contacts, tried to make her nose look like a white persons, etc… then Tyra would have room to talk. But just the eyelids? Her eyelids looked like mine (I’m half Asian and mostly mistaken for just Asian) and a number of my 100% Asian relatives were naturally born with double eyelids. Unfortunately, most people who haven’t had much experience of Asia or Asian people think that double eyelids are impossible among Asians, when in some areas half the people are born with them.
I’ve always loved Tyra and think she looks great at any weight! she has a fabulous shape with pert round bum and boobs no matter what her size…personally i prefer her with a little more meat on her (like now) to how she was in her top model days- i didnt find her so hot then
She looks much, much better at this weight than at her biggest weight. At her biggest weight, she was okay, but now she still looks like her supermodel self or a resemblence of it.
I think people criticize her not because of her weight but because Tyra is insecure about it and starts lashing out, making hateful comments. I’ve seen a lot of episodes on her TV show and with her constant putting down of thin women and that “No man likes a skinny girl!” when she knows that’s not true and she used to be a skinny girl herself, it’s clear that she has some issues regarding her weight. It also makes a lot of people look at her and say, “Oh please, you’re just fat.”
If she was like Oprah and admitted she had insecurities, some mean spirited people would still comment but most people would sympathize because Oprah doesn’t make such mean spirited comments.
I agree with all of this! I want to like her, I actually used to look up to her when I was younger, but she doesn’t have a good personality anymore! Or maybe she’s always been like this and she just wasn’t famous enough for people to take notice, i don’t know.
Yeah I know what you guys are saying, it’s like she thinks she’s better and smarter then everyone else. She really judges people on her show. Does anyone remember the show she was doing on the documentry “Good Hair”? She had her hair pulled back in braids that day as if to say..I never wear hair extensions. I think people are eventually going to get sick of her to tell you the truth.
That being said, she does look very good!