Tyra Banks
This America’s Next Top Model producer, show-creator, and host has always been the definition of a supermodel. After signing with Elite Model Management, one of the world’s most exclusive modeling agencies, Tyra Banks’ youthful but exotic looks took the world by storm. For many, she was the bright-eyed bronze bombshell strutting up and down the catwalk, but for so many others she was an example of industry change. That pug nose, plumped pout and those almond-shaped eyes, all distinctly ethnic, made her the first Black person to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1996.
And now at 47, she still dazzles when she smizes. As an actor, she was able to transition past being what some only considered a “clothes hanger” and “eye-candy,” and became a fully evolved artist with levels of theatrical depth. But it was when she launched her model-searched reality-show meets competition, that she let the world see that she is a sharp business mind too. Check the Harvard U on her resume … Momma is pretty but has a big ole brain to match.