Quotes from banks tyra ii

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

It's always difficult when going from one field to another especially when you're the first person to make the jump and when you've had so much success in that first field. I got a lot of pushback but I kept going.

I went to school for me -- I didn't do it to make any sort of statement. So the very first year I was in school I wasn't there under my own name. It was very incognito. And then it leaked and I said, "Ok let me control this story," and that's when I started talking about it.

As a model, I needed makeup. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It leveled my playing field.

It was scary at first, being a young girl leaving high fashion, the only segment of the industry I knew, and walking into a more high profile, mainstream modeling world that had never been that accepting of an African American model before. But I knew the decision I made was worth the risk more than trying to stay in a world that was rejecting me because of what I naturally looked like. Regardless of the outcome, I knew it was right.

If one day I have wrinkles and I don't like it, I don't know if I'll cut myself but maybe... a little botox, fillers?

With the whole supermodel thing, even when you're not really modeling anymore people still call me that. And I'm like "...retired."