She's Right: Tyra Banks Isn't Fat

Tyra Banks "fat" still looks better than most of you that are skinny. So shut up.

The reality of it is shes a whoppping 34 yo , no kids and carrying around 161lbs.  No shes not obese and not seriously over weight.  She has become very average :-( in size just as our ever growing western population.  It amazes me shes comfortable being as large has she has become.  Clearly she isn't trying to be physically fit.  No I'm not suggesting she weigh anything less that 130 as tall as she is, but she'd look so much better if she could control her eating, exercise more and get her weight down in the 130 - 145 # range.  My 2 cents.  Using BMI as a guide she'd want to keep her weight at or above 129#.  Body fat for females should be no less than 15%.  I assure you shes nowhere near this number and even at 129# would likely be over 15% body fat.

Tyra being the big star you've become spend some of that cash on a personal trainer who can whip your butt back into shape.  Espouse healthy eating and fitness!  Trim down and put on some muscle girl friend!

Hey

I cannot agree more with your responses. Why should we weigh 45kg and wear a size 6 to have the model look? Some of us are born with bigger bone structures than others, some of us were given the bigger bums and others big feet.Its all about confidence and strutting around with your head up, shoulders back, boobs out, bum in and telling the world just where to go.

I grew up being the tallest in my classes, the bigger bone structure, the biggest shoe size and when girls were buying clothes in the childrens section I was getting clothes in the ladies section. I was teased about having fuller lips at the age of 12, called every name under the sun. I was ashamed of what I looked like beleiving that I was cursed, only because I listened to what everyone else was telling me, my so-called friends.

Sixteen years down the road I have grown into my body and am comfortable with who I am. Society is to blame for the endless amount of girls with eating disorders and low self esteem. Its our jobs as friends, sisters, daughters and mothers to make a change.

To all the girls, ladies and women out there, beauty is within. Your inner beauty will always show on the outside. As cliched as it sounds, its true.Love YOURSELF and everyone else will love YOU too.

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Cakies

We're surrounded by messages designed to create desire.....if we all accepted ourselves as we are, we wouldn't be rushing out to buy makeup, skin care products, new clothes, botox, hair dye, etc. and binging on junk food in between meals.

It's the false illusion that we're lacking in some way that creates that kind of behavior. If we spent 25% of that energy loving our bodies and paying attention to them, I wonder what would happen? What if instead of self-hatred and self-pity, we had a love-fest with ourselves on a regular basis?

Hmmmm, maybe we should try an experiment...

Dr. Hannah

We must be willing to give up the life we've planned in order to live the life we are given.

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AMEN!

But of course I'd say this.

As I said in a reply to a comment on my blog, the average size for a US woman is dress size 11-14. That's BEAUTIFUL! (And I also critiqued the arbitrary dress sizes for women... why not a nice variety like men have? I'll take a 34 waist and 36 length pant leg, low rise, please. What's that translate to in girl sizes? 12-ish? Maybe a little too short in the leg, a little snug in the waist?)

So why are all designer sample sizes 0-2 at the largest?

Sure there is an obesity problem in the country, but there is also a too skinny for my chin problem too. Where's that excluded middle? Oh right, it's RIGHT here, sitting in my chair, responding to you...looking healthy and hot, and not at all (thank goodness) like a poster child for starvation like Molly Simms. Or Nicole Richie. Poor Nicole.

Yes. Beauty should be HEALTHY. Healthy varies by person, and form varies by person too. When you are healthy, you look gorgeous. Be you a 6, a 16, a 22 or whatever.

As I said before, if you think a healthy and gorgeous 5'10" 161 lb. Tyra is fat, sod off.

I hope Tyra sees this. I hope it gets higher search engine ranking than anything calling her America's Next Top Waddle (how horrid---what's wrong with people? They kiss their kids with that mouth?). Since we know, from the article, that she is out there googling her name. :)

Thanks Sarah.

I've been following the America's Next Top Model series so I have noticed that Tyra is a little thicker but I certainly didn't think it was a bad thing.

I wish she had been around when I was 18, that size and weight. She is not a bad role model for young women (and girls) to have.

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