Tyra Banks Quotes

Every producer I have met has asked me to change my hair. I have always said 'No.' I finally change it for me... and now everyone in the business is like, 'You have to go back to having brown hair.'

I had a nice, pert nose but a plain round face and a mop of curly brown hair. That was not the photograph of a successful model.

Back in England, a girl with thick black hair, dusky skin and big brown eyes will turn heads. It is vice versa in India.

I've got a lot cellulite and my thinking was brown cellulite is better than white cellulite.

The only way I can get a man to touch me at this age is plastic surgery.

I had to come to terms with how I saw myself. I had to understand that I wasn't pretty or beautiful like most actresses and that I shouldn't care about whether other people found me attractive or not.

Lena made a face. She almost never wore makeup; she didn't have to. "You know, it's not like we all sign a contract with Maybelline when we turn thirteen.

Blonds look angelic, but can (oh, happy!) be fleshy as well.

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes. Everyone else is struggling.

Well, in Colombia everybody's very voluptuous, and you're supposed to be. You don't want to be skinny when all of your cousins are mermaids. You grow up thinking that's how beauty is.

Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.

In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.

Tall, thin, curvy, short – whatever you are, you are beautiful.

I don't have the body for this," I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. "No curves." Jev's eyes held mine. "Are you asking my opinion?

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.

Boys like girls who look like...girls.

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

My wife was a beautiful woman before we had children.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

I have cellulite. So what?

A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.

Studying the young woman’s long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different.