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Celebrity Style Jewelry: Tyra Banks Fights Back on "Fat" Issue

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Celebrity style jewelry from Emitations lets you steal Tyra Banks' style for less! When it comes to models there are always issues surrounding their weight. Kate Moss, the world's most photographed model, has been criticized numerous times for being too thin, Spain turned away models with a BMI under 18 at Pasarela Cibeles' fashion show, and most recently supermodel Tyra Banks has been criticized for being…too fat?



The television show host was shocked to find tabloids with insensitive headlines like "America's Next Top Waddle" and "Tyra Porkchop" when she recently returned from a trip to Sydney, Australia. Pictures of the 161 lbs., 5'11" actress in a bathing suit were plastered all over the stands at grocery store check outs. She knew that she had put on some weight but it was not the big deal that the tabloids were making it out to be.



"If I was in pain, I would have dieted," she said to People in the February 5 issue. "The pain is not there - the pain is someone printing a picture of me and saying those [horrible] things."



Not only were the reports hurtful, but she worried about her fans. "I get so much mail from young girls who say, 'I look up to you, you're not as skinny as everyone else, I think you're beautiful,' " she told People. "So when they say that my body is 'ugly' and 'disgusting,' what does that make those girls feel like?"



Banks has made numerous efforts to help adolescent girls learn how to improve their lives and their self esteem. She started a foundation in 1999 called TZONE that funds local non-profits that assist disadvantaged girls and runs TZONE camp. Tyra has also been very vocal, on both America's Top Model and her syndicated talk show, about how the images of women projected by the fashion industry are nothing more than an airbrushed, smoke and mirrors fantasy world.



Props to Banks on speaking out about a Catch 22 issue that affects so many girls and women. Tyra Banks stands strong as an African-American role model that is fighting against unrealistic body image issues. Go on girl, screw the press and eat those pancakes!