On the fifth season premiere of The Tyra Banks Show this week, the erstwhile supermodel removed her extensions to reveal her real hair.
But this unprecedented act of television bravery has been sullied by the investigative journalism of one Cynthia McFadden, who had the audacity to point out that Tyra giveth the weave on America’s Next Top Model to a few lucky girls every season (the others all get brutal Mia Farrow haircuts).
TB: Years ago, when I first started wearing hair extensions, I would get mail from young girls and young girls would come up to me and be like, “Tyra you have the most beautiful hair. Wow, I could never grow hair like that.” And I would say, “Child, this is a weave. This ain’t my hair!” Young girls need to know.
CM: But the messages do seem mixed. At night, the competition is based on such things as “good hair.”
Tyra Banks is a saint, I tell you. How dare that reporter impugn her intentions to raise ratings any way she can!
It’s no surprise that the interview went downhill from there, as McFadden noted that none of the winners are household names and doesn’t Tyra deserve her diva reputation, after unceremoniously dumping her co-judges? (Tyra: “I wish I was more of a diva.”)
Seriously, the whole thing is awesome if you want to see one heck of a brittle mask with strangely smiling eyes.
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What? You mean some part of her gorgeous, perfect, model-type body was fake??
I am SHOCKED.
Tyra wishes she was more of a diva? I’m not sure the world is big enough for two Oprahs…
And it might have been her real hair, but it was still straightened:
http://www.examiner.com/x-1994-LA-Celebrity-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m9d9-Tyra-Banks-natural-hair-disappoints-a-community
“Sustainable” fish being overfished.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/science/10fish.html?_r=1&em
Also, Bob Deniro serves endangered species at NOBU
http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0527-hance_nobu.html
You’ve used the word “erstwhile” a few times now. Now it’s stuck in my head, and won’t stop! I love reading the articles here, because I level up on my vocabularies, and when I get the article titles, I feel smart! (Irony intended…at least, probably.)
What I found hilarious was on her show she revealed what her “real” hair looked like. After a stylist fixed it for her. That’s not real. Real is what the rest of us got blessed with that we style OURSELVES.
Erm, those of us who bother to style, that is.
Hasn’t her 15 minute train left yet?
This is like when the celebrities get photographed “without” makeup. You know they are still wearing makeup, heck, half the time you can SEE the makeup. But they will still be commended for their “courage” for showing their “real” selves.
Holly needs a new thesaurus.
Damn, I wish I could be America’s Next Top Totally Unimportant Mo- wait….5′7″ and under?
Oh, I fail. Maybe I should go throw up in a toilet like Tyra suggested Dickensen told girls to do. ’cause you know. Then I’ll be less tall. And get the exact same work I’m offered now. But it’s totally different because I’LL HAVE BEEN ON TEE-VEE!
“well i am going to go there” ROFL!!! that was great, tyra was slowly dying inside…. oh man thanks for that laugh!
I know, Pearce, at 5′8 I fail too. Oh well…I didn’t feel like making myself yuke today anyway.
Geez. And I had come to terms with being 5′3″.
Eh, I don’t like wearing heels and slinking about, anyway.
yes. The answer is yes.
I thought they were extinct?
Hee. I’m going to have fun watching this when I get out of class in another few minutes.
Although they are unconfirmed, there were recent thesaurus sightings in May 2007 and December 2008.
Ask her again, Cynthia! One more time! Woo hoo, now another, just for kicks.
Forget about launching a thousand ships, that’s the smile that launched Hitchcock.
Re: the “brutal Mia Farrow haircuts”, TOTALLY! I don’t blame the girls for getting ticked of as they do about those chop jobs either, WTH, they always look horrible.
Speaking of Oprah, why is the TV tabloid media calling her “Lady O” now? Did she get knighted or something?
ROFLMAO She actually said she is not materialistic.
Just remember, DIVA spelled backwards is AVID. What that has to do with anything I don’t know. Kind of like what exposing her “real” hair has to do with anything.
Same same.
@Jannah: “Arise, Sir Loin of Pork.”