Tyra Banks Quotes

I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.

I think a lot of girls think that they have to be super-thin, to meet the Hollywood image, but I think a girl who is voluptuous is very beautiful.

If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

Women are so much more beautiful when they have shape.

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.

I'd want to have Gisele Bundchen's body. Even though she's tall and skinny, she does have curves... and I think that's hot. Halle Berry also is kind of amazing.

I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

I've always had a booty even when I was a baby, and when I was in high school and was skinny, I still had the booty. In Hollywood's eyes, the perfect women has to be a stick figure, tall, blonde hair, with big boobs.

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

I like Ariana Grande's nice thigh-gap; she's got good legs.

I feel badly for those girls who have to be so waif thin, doing those catwalks all the time because, luckily, we're going into a different time - that's what they're saying, at least - in we're appreciating a curvier figure. But to be honest, I couldn't be like an hourglass if I tried.

Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me.

Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

While I believe that when you are in the glamour industry, you have to look your best, I also believe being skinny is not 'hot and happening.'

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.

I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

I'd like to be curvier.