I agree with most of the posters on here that say she is not fat. However, being that she is a former model she should atleast keep herself up a lil bit. Especially becuase shes hostin producin (starrin in) ANTM where she chastises the girls all the time for their weight. And dont blame the industry, becuase the truth is America wants to see slimmer, fit women between the pages of magazines…

@ God’s Child
“She looks nice not fat and not slim. Thas the size a woman shuld be at not a damn size 1. Wtf is size 1? Real women keeps real figures n i like tyra for keepin it real. You go girl. ”

Why do people always have to turns things into a fat vs skinny, light vs dark, weave vs natural contest. Im a size 1 and have curves. That’s totally not true and everyone can not help their genes and how they come out. As long as people aren’t starving themselves to stay thin, then what’s the big deal?

uuuuuh, Tyra needs to get into the gym. She’s been absent from the workout routine.

I do think Tyra always looks great (except in the hair department) but in a way she is getting what she deserves. On her show she tells the models they need to lose weight or do this or do that if they want to stay on top. She baiscally tells these models to change who they are because she feels they don’t compare to her standards of whatever. Cause we all know Tyra always has something to say about everything she comes acorss. Now that the tables are turned on her she can’t take it. Yeah call me a hater all you want but I don’t feel sorry for Tyra so much. For her to talk about self-image so much she shouldn’t be worried about what people think of her. If I were her, I’d give the media a big “FUCK YOU” and keep it moving. No one should be telling anyone what to do with their bodies or how to live their lives. Especially not the media or people who hide behind a computer screen.

I think she looks good that size I hate that hair color with a passion though! That is herendous ewwwwwwww!!!!

she do look alot beter with meat on her bones, but what pisses me off is that she’s sitting there addressing the press about it. Have you ever heard Beyounce or RAven Somone doing this? Its like she doesnt want ppl to think she thick or something. Watch her lose 20pounds in the next few months!!!:)

It looks like they photoshopped the cover though to make her look skinnier.

oh yeah Tyra luvs to eat! I don’t blame u girl, Tyra paid her dues….Tyra do u girl!

As much as I love Tyra Banks, I am not feeling sorry for her regarding what the tabloids are saying about her concerning her weight. I think these comments are just karma coming full circle. Constantly, on America’s Next Top Model Trya is negatively criticizing contestants regarding either their southern accents, spaced teeth, weight and appearance. Then on her talk show, Tyra tries to promote a hypocritical positive message of accepting everyone for who they are (when she does not do this on America’s Next Top Model). I can’t understand when she does this. Hey… everyone gets made fun of in life… especially celebrities.

AGREE W/ 144. NOT FAT, JUST TRY WAY TOO HARD. MANNISH

thank god we next more thick and heathy lookin models in dis world

Tyra is STILL thinner than the average American woman. She is still a healthy weight for her height and she was underweight before. I can see someone saying she’s fat for a model, but she’s definitely not fat.

tyra is still average looking, even if she has gained a bit of weight.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tooo big tyra

I think she looks nice at that size. Not everyone has to weigh 110 lbs. Ain’t nothing wrong with Tyra having a little size on her. She can still get it.

As long as Tyra is happy is all that matters. Anybody that goes to her talk show site knows that although she does get her grub on from time to time because she likes to eat, knows that she also excersies and and tries to stay healthy as well. So you go girl!! Do you!

Tyra isn’t anywhere near fat now BUT compared to her “modeling figure” she is a tad plump. Additionally- doesn’t her recent weight gain after her retirement make you think that all of those years she must have been starving herself to stay as thin as she was? I mean, Cindy Crawford, Heidi Klum, Naomi Campbell and the rest of her modeling compatriots are still thin into their 30s…things that make you go “hmmmm…”

PLUS I think she probably went on Atkins or something for a few weeks before she posed for People Mag and NOW she is probably 161 but in the pics that surfaced a few months ago she was clearly at least 15-20 lbs heavier.

that second pic wiff the black on bitch puleeez it is wat it is thats a natural pic if i eva saw one. dont make excuses thats when you look guilty ha azz is bigger than usual lacefront and all be proud, or stop eating dam it but dont make excuses

i wouldn’t mind being as fat as tyra. If thats fat than i feel sorry for this world.

THE HOE HERE IS SO FAKE, I LIKED HER BEFORE BUT NOW EWWW.
SHE AINT NATURAL IN THOSE PICS, SHE STILL HAS THE WIG ON AND FAKE EYELASH DAMN SHE SAD.
WHY IS SHE LYING THAT SHE HAS SELF CONFIDENCE? IF SHE DID SHE WOULD STOP WEARING ALL THAT MAKE UP AND WIG AND STOP TRYING TO BE WHITE OR TO BE ANOTHER BEYONCE DAMNN .

TYRA FIX URSELFE UR FAT FACE IT.
LOOSE THE FAT IS NOT LOOKING GOOD

She’s not fat!

If Tyra was fake she wouldnt have taken off all of her makeup on the show which she has done on more than 1 occasion. 1 being the time that she went to prison where she took off her makeup AND took her wig/weave off. How many other celebrites and talkshow hosts have deliberately taken off their makeup and weave for everybody to see? Not many. So fake as far as make up and hair goes-dont think so.

The pic of her in the red looks straight photoshopped. The other one looks real!!

Tyra has been waiting all these years to eat sister earned millions hell go ahead have a crispy cream or 2 damn.

Damn.. Tyra makes the wood in Woode stand up.. Soul sista can get it any day..to bad she sprung on them cackers..

Damn.. Tyra makes the wood in Woode stand up.. Soul sista can get it any day..to bad she sprung on them crackers..

@159 NOT FEELING SORRY.

Your so right, your absolutely right I never thought of that.

SHE IS FAT…LIKE A SHAMOO THE WHALE!

tyra’s not fat BUT her legs are shaped weirdly. i do feel sorry for her because, like someone else stated before, since she began as a model she will ALWAYS be compared to how she was in the 90s

Tyra looks amazing…actually better here…

@159 i agree wit u she talk about them and tell them about there looks now she crieng ova a lil thickness i would want to be think than be fat!

It so said that ppl can criticize all the young Hollywood stars (like Nicole Richie) for being stick thin and then turn around and make fun of Tyra, a beautiful, healthy looking women. Yes, she was skinnier when she first started modeling, but she’s gotten older and now that she has other aspirations besides modeling she can probably eat what she wants now for the most part. She’s not fat at all to me. She loos great in my opinion.

please>>>>she is not fat. i actually think they added something to the balck bathijng suit pic because the one in the red look like a slim girl. remind u she girls are 160 and still look slim it just depends on the persons body and shape. but she fine just dont gain anymore Trya

when are white ppl ever going to be satified…damn.. i mean if you are “THICK” like tyra or beyonce..you are fat….but when you look like nicole richie and LINDSAY lohan….and tha OLSEN twins..you are TOO SKINNY….ppl are never happy….smh. . . ppl need to stop worryin bout tha smallest things like WEIGHT and get money…

yall need to leave Tyra alone shes been a stick all her life now that she has retired from modeling and wants to eat let her. U GO TYRA, DO U

@ you already know’s post-
i completely agree w/you. what is a “real woman” supposed to look like anyway?

a lot of ppl on here r saying that she was underweight in her modeling days. i saw her pics and she was not underweight at all. she was just thin and there’s nothing wrong with being thin. same goes for thickness. there’s nothing wrong w/being thick either.

i’m a slim girl but i’m still known around my friends and ppl that i meet (all different races btw) as a thin girl with a very curvy body. i take offense to the posts that say that thin is bad and that a real woman should look just like tyra. i am a real woman as well (i’m finally 18 yaay). i don’t think tyra is at all fat. i think her weight is fine just like i think my weight is fine. we have to accept that all women come in different shapes and sizes and every woman has a man that will find her body sexy. we need to get rid of this whole “thickness is the only perfection” ideal or the “skinny up” nonsense. as long as the person is at HIS?HER HEALTHY WEIGHT not your idea of healthy weight we should all be happy

Cosign with 9 and 179. that people mag pic is AIRBRUSHED!! but stop hating on slim people i dont go around telling people to lose weight nor do i think people should go around telling people to gain weight. as long as i have a good blood pressure, and im not diabetic, and im NATURALLY SLIM OR NATURALLY THICK

Not slim by vomitting or not eating

or thick by HAVING NO SELF CONTROL WHEN EATING

then its all good people.

also tyra has an HOURGLASS SHAPE

HOURGLASS

HOURGLASS

usually thicker girls or fatter are either pear shaped or top heavy (triangle shaped)unless they are wearing something that gives the illusion of an hourglass shape. and so i dont think tyra is a good example for heavier girls or women. QUEEN laTIfAh yeah tyra not really.and QUEEN is active in excercising and toned people should be worried about BMI and toning and nothing else.

She looks okay, she’s just not a stick figure. Plus, when she first started modeling, she was 17 or 18. She’s 30-something now, you can’t expect a woman to stay that skinny unless they’re doing something unhealthy to themselves. But that blond shit has GOT to go.

she is suppossed to talk about this on her talk show and then come out on stage in that same bathing suit to prove to the world she aint that big. You know tyra, always trying to prove herself.

Tyra fat - rubbish

Why don’t some people seek to look a little deeper at things. Tyra Banks is a very attractive and sexy woman that many men would be attracted to. In my opinion a few bitchy people are suffering from envy - I mean she’s an intelligent, attractive and sexy woman whose excellent work ethic has made her a success on the catwalk, on the chat show circuit and as a model show mentor. I would not be surprised if the comments were generated by the likes of janice Dickinson, who was dropped from Tyra America’s Next Top Model (replaced by Twiggy) who then went on to create her own version of the said show. Tyra is evidently suffering at the hands of some bitchy people who are feeling that she’s doing too well and want to bring a “sista” down and the rest of the foolish sheep out there start hollering in unison playing follow the leader.

If Tyra reads this site my advice to her would be keep on doing what you’re doing - hit the gym for health purposes if you want to but stand strong and know that you are beautiful, intelligent and curvaceous and that’s a combination that most women want.

since when is 161 fat? thats healthy for a black woman with curves. can we talk about something else?

She look real nice to me

THIS IS MAKING ME MAD
how tha hell is tyra FAT?????????
THIS IS WHY YOUNG GIRL ARE DYIN FROM EATING DISORDERS BECAUSE TYRA IS CLASSED AS FAT WHEN SHE IS ABOUT A SIZE 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This obession with weight, I mean, it’s okay to lose some pounds, nothing wrong with that, but looking bone thin? The media shoves these bony ass models into all these poor girls face across the country, and the girls think that’s the way thay are supposed to look. It is sick. You don’t have to be a size 0 to be beautiful. Be you, and fuck all who say different, ladies.

#38 I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH YOU…I ALWAYS THOUGHT TYRA HAD THE MOST UGLIEST OF LEGS TOO. ANYWAY, NO SHE IS NOT FAT, OF COURSE NOT. BUT BY WHITE PEOPLE’S STANDARDS SHE IS. AND I BELIEVE NO ONE SHOULD FOLLOW WHITE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE SO F*CKED UP IN THE HEAD ANYWAY. DUMB F*CKS!!

i wish was that thick myself…white people just love people with no shape/figures, i’ll never understand why

Boi Stop!!! Tyra is beautiful and so are other thick people. I bet the folks writing this trash don’t look half as good as her. Can we have some real news?

no..i dont think she’s fat..but i do think that she looks..sloppy. the black bathing suit is ugly, she’s slouching and the hair color is bad… Tyra was never super stick thin…she was known for being a curvy model..but now..she just looks sloppy. and seriously..what does she expect..when a former victorias secret model hits 161 lbs people are going to talk about it. I hate when famous people whine that bs about leave me alone and i want some privacy..you’re famous..wtf do u expect?

she antn fat at all they did that s

considering shes a supermodel, she poses awfully in the pics with the red swimsuit. her legs are positioned weirdly and her smile looks extremely fake. her weight is of no concern to me but her weave/wig certainly is

Tyra is fine just the way she is. So what if she is a little thick. To me, if she’s happy, then that’s what counts. Most sisters aren’t built like a No. 2 pencil. If you see a woman and you see bones, like Nicole Ritchie, that’s a woman who has a problem. Tyra needs to feel Nicole some of what she’s eating.

Tyra looks fine. Most sisters don’t look like N0.2 pencils anyway. To me, the extra weight just makes her that much more thick in the right places. Women are going to pick up a little weight in their 30s. As long as she and whomever she’s with enjoys her look, more power to her. She can still get it.

Tyra is NOT fat. She’s intelligent, beautiful, strong, healthy, and blessed.

I can’t believe that’s Tyra in the black bathing suit. I think they added some mass to the pic. It’s not even a flattering swimsuit.

And that wig in the other pic. Ugh!

I love Tyra. I am very proud of her. She is a good role model for all women.

nice and thick lmao…I think she looks great lol

she loks lik a old women with that blond weave

The media and you people with lives just need a new target every week to make yourselves feel worthwhile. Well it doesn’t. It makes you look pathetic.

Tyra Banks is drop dead gorgeous. She is an amazing role model for girls and women alike. She is not the slightest bit fat … wouldn’t be even if she weighed 200 pounds. My god. she’s 5′10 not 5′4. Healthy, toned men that are 5′8 on average weigh 180 lbs. i mean. come on. you guys are ridiculous.

I love Tyra. She loves herself no matter what, and encourages girls all over to do the same. The media needs to frig off if they don’t like that. Get it girl!!

Who cares if Tyra put on a few lbs? She earned her millions being skinny, she is getting older and most women naturally get plumper as they age. It happens. She has earned her right to eat the way she wants and enjoy the rest of her life…I wouldn’t want to be on my deathbed with my last thought being…damn I should have eaten that hot fudge sunday, because then I would be able to die with a smile on my face about such a sweet memory. She is living in the moment as the rest of us should. I don’t understand why the world has to judge people on their appearance. Way back in the day, if you were plump you must have been wealthy because only the wealthy carried a few extra pounds, and most paintings of women were of plump voluptuos fertile females.

The pic in the red swimsuit is how EVERY lady should look. The other pic of Tyra in the water is how EVERY woman should NOT look. Face it people, Tyra has had her 15 minutes of fame and glory and now she could care less what WE think of her. yes… she has turned into the AVERAGE CHUNKY WOMAN !!! What a darn shame. And… of course the average chunky woman will say Tyra looks great NOW. What a joke this all is !!! WHAT A SHAME !!!!!

LMAO!
How you gone wait until a whole month to decide to respond to weight rumors? hmmmmm, could it be cause you need to crash diet and lose some of that fat? I wonder…and why the need for photoshopped pictures? if you are indeed proud of your body, show the real deal then…damn hypocrite. Fake bitches get revealed everytime. “I’ve gained weight, network want me to lose weight, oh boo-hoo”, cry me a river.

How the hell you gone criticize the very industry you prayed to get into and have paid your bills for the last decade, all this time fully aware of the prejudices the industry represent, and you’ve been dieting like hell to stay in industry, now older and tired of starving, just want to let loose, and got the nerve to criticize people for their point of view. You think you are special cause you were born tall, and you talk about the shorter models and criticize them (for the record, that’s a prejudice the industry fosters), yet you don’t want to be judged on another physical dynamic, weigt. You work in one of the most critical/look-oriented industries there is, and got the nerve to get upset when others judge you! Tyra, get your expanding fake ass outta here with that bullshit! P.S., your show suck, please re-evaluate and get a new hustle! You are as fake as your contrived smile…you are a hypocrite and not worthy of a dropped tear. next!!!!!

P.S., if this were america’s next top model, and unless the model was interested in plus size modeling, you would suggest they lose weight, and are often critical of the girls on the show that gain weight over the episodes of the show (ex: Keenya).

And if it’s okay to be 161 pounds, why havent a plus size model ever won on your show, though it’s been 6 seasons already?!!! This is not American Idol, you and your panel are the judges, (not the american public), and you’ve never selected a plus size model to be a winner. Bones win every season!

Tyra you are the biggest hypocrite. You ditch it out, but you can’t take it. You deserve no sympathy.

Tyra is far from fat she looks like an average healthy black woman. I wish I would starve myself to be a dam 0 or 2 just to stop people in Hollywood and tabloids from talking about me. Tyra is rich and established, and yes in your 30s you do start to pick up weight a little more. I’m 32, 5′2 and 135lbs. and still consider myself physically in shape but that’s because I workout and take care of myself. I love my curves, besides black women were not built to look like sticks anyways.

wow@ “the muffin top”. that was so accurate and funny as hell =D

no but she is a thick chic but thats in a good way

no but she is a thick chic but thats in a good way

number 213, I couldnt agree more with all that you said. I have ALWAYS said that she has like 2 different personalities, one for her talk show and one for antm. In her talk show she is aww this and aww dont talk about fat people, be who you wanna be, you can do anything, dont take off your clothes for anyone. THen on antm, a girl could get sent home if she doesnt take off her clothes, or take off her top for a photo shoot. So Im thinking, wait, On your talk show you say dont ever do anything that makes you uncomfortable. Tyra is a strange one, I never knew this until she opened her mouth. I agree, People have been talking about her weight for awhile and she is just now addressing it, maybe she had to hurry and loose weight to prove to everyone that she isnt fat. I really cant personally stand Tyra, she is so into her self its terrible.

I really love it when she has a fine male celeb on her show and then asks them “so do you have any crushes”? KNOWING THEY ARE GOING TO SAY THEY HAVE A CRUSH ON HER!!.

I think Tyra looks great. At least her stomach is still flat. She did not look fat when she had her panty party on her show.

cosign w/37!

I don’t think Tyra is fat!! I think she’s beautiful. What is up with people thinking you have to be a stick to be pretty??!! U don’t and Tyra is a great example that.

@ 171/213/219

i think you all are haters she is wonderful.You state that she has two diffrent personalities but if you think about it she has two diffrent shows.First of all shes helping these young women make it in the business that she has already conquered. Meaning that she going to tell them what they need to do to make it, correction what she had to do to make it .Now on her talk show she is still letting the women who are not looking to be a supermodel that you dont have to try to meet standards that dont relate to what you want to do in life .Its ok to be average .She’s made it and she doesnt have to do that anymmore .This is it if you are a manager and you tell new employees what to do , they are to do so if they want to reach your positon , so because the manager is where they want to be .But of course when you make it to the top you will have haters especially when you are liked by many .

do you TYRA…………….

Tyra is big, She’s gained weight, tyra has a big forehead, Sounds like a bunch of haters. Tyra is a talented young woman that has done so much to help young girls, Ask yourself what have you done to help another person, I know waste time talking about others. Tyra is a “Top Model” a great talk show host and a kind loving soul keep your eyes on her, and watch the great things coming her way.

Tyra’s biggest fan!

U Go Girl!!!!!!!!!!

What she needs is a man! come on! step up, date a guy or….is she?