Tyra Banks

Tyra Banks is an American model, television host, producer, and businesswoman who created and hosted America’s Next Top Model. She rose to prominence as a fashion model.

Naomi Campbell: Naomi Campbell is a British fashion model who rose to prominence in the late 1980s. Banks and Campbell were prominent Black models in an industry with few peers of color.
America’s Next Top Model: America’s Next Top Model is a reality television competition in which aspiring models compete for a modeling opportunity. Banks created and hosted the series, which made her modeling knowledge its central format.
Reality television: Reality television presents unscripted or partly unscripted situations featuring real people or contestants. Banks’s competition format helped make modeling careers a recurring reality-TV storyline.
Cindy Crawford: Cindy Crawford is an American fashion model and television personality who rose to prominence in the 1980s. Crawford’s modeling career provides a contemporary comparison to Banks’s path into television production.
Janice Dickinson: Janice Dickinson is an American model, television personality, and author. Dickinson served as a judge on early seasons of Banks’s modeling competition.
The Tyra Banks Show: The Tyra Banks Show is an American daytime talk show hosted by Tyra Banks from 2005 to 2010. The show extended Banks’s television career beyond modeling competitions.
Modeling agency: A modeling agency represents models and arranges work with clients in fashion and advertising. The show presented agency contracts as a prize and dramatized how models seek representation.
Heidi Klum: Heidi Klum is a German-American model, television host, and producer. Klum’s transition from modeling to hosting offers a parallel to Banks’s media career.
Jay Manuel: Jay Manuel is a Canadian television host, makeup artist, and producer. Manuel became a familiar on-camera collaborator on Banks’s modeling show.
The CW: The CW is an American broadcast television network launched in 2006. The network aired much of America’s Next Top Model during its long run.

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