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Tyra’s Weight Loss Evolution

Tyra’s Weight Loss Evolution
By Essence · Updated October 29, 2020
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Who’s That Girl?

Media Mogul Tyra Banks arrives at the 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at The Orpheum Theatre on August 30, 2009 in Los Angeles looking super slim.

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Best of Both Worlds

Tyra Banks attends the 1st Annual Soul Train Comedy Awards on August 3, 1993 and proves why she is a super model—slim and curvy.

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The Body Beautiful

Tyra Banks struts her stuff at the 10th Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on November 7, 2005. This seems like the perfect body size for the model turned mogul.

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Strike A Pose

Tyra Banks on the red carpet at the “Madea’s Family Reunion” Premiere on February 21, 2006. The wide belt accentuates her curves and makes her look feminine.

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Colored Girl

Tyra Banks appears onstage during MTV’s Total Request Live at the MTV Times Square Studios on May 11, 2006 in New York City. The red dress shows off her curves and the vest and necklace give good shape.

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Hollywood Glamour

Tyra Banks at the Sky Bar in Los Angeles, California on August 27, 2006. Glamorous and gorgeous: We like the curves.

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Covered Up

Tyra Banks attends Clive Davis’s Pre-Grammy Awards Party on February 10, 2007. She is covered up and giving good face. Note the lace and a floral print serve as optical illusions.

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Vavavavoom

Tyra Banks attends the 37th Annual NAACP Image Awards on March 2, 2007 and shows us what she’s working with. Go ahead on girl.

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Isn’t She Lovely

Tyra Banks attends Stevie Wonder’s 57th Birthday at the Grand Opening of The Cove Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island, Bahamas, May 13, 2007.

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Walk This Way

Tyra Banks filming a segment for ‘The Tyra Banks show’ on location in Manhattan’s financial district on August 5, 2007 in New York City, New York. Curvy girl alert.

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The Hour Glass

Tyra Banks arrives at the CW Network’s Upfront at Lincoln Center on May 13, 2008 in New York City and shows off her figure.

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Golden Girl

Tyra Banks at the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Kodak Theatre on June 20, 2008 in Los Angeles, California looks like a winner.

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The Bold and the Beautiful

Tyra Banks attends Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Fall 2008 at Bryant Park February 4, 2008 in New York City.

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Ready for the World

Tyra Banks attends the Oxygen Media Launch Party for ’America’s Next Top Model’ at Gotham Hall on January 12, 2009 in New York City. Look at how much more shapely she is.

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Fashionista

Tyra Banks attends the 2009 The CW Network UpFront at Madison Square Garden on May 21, 2009 in New York City and looks like a super model—on a serious diet.

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Dangerous Curves

Tyra Banks attends ‘The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion’ Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2009 in New York City. This is the perfect size for the model turned media mogul.

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Slim & Trim

Tyra Banks poses on the red carpet of the 2009 BET Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on June 28, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. Banks looks slim but maintains her curves.

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Let’s Get Physical

Tyra Banks tapes a flash dance sequence in Manhattan’s Union Square on August 17, 2009. Work out.

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Gossip Girl

Big or small Tyra Banks weight is often tabloid fodder. Tyra Banks sighting at Ziegfeld Theater on August 6, 2009 in New York City while filming “Gossip Girl.” Don’t try and keep up with those young ladies.

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The Biggest Loser

Tyra Banks loses 30 pounds and shows off her considerably slimmer body on “The Tyra Banks Show.” She says she may have lost weight but she still loves her fat [behind].

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