Tyra Banks: ‘I was too fat at 17 to be a model in 2012′
In wake of VOGUE’s ban on underage and ‘too thin’ models Tyra Banks has come out in applause saying that move alone is a reason to be ‘smizing’. The legendary supermodel says that when she was modeling at 17, an average size was four to six, and these-days everybody is expected to be a thin zero.
“The truth is that if I was just starting to model at age 17 in 2012, I could not have had the career that I did. I would’ve been considered too heavy,” Banks explains. “In my time, the average model’s size was a four or six. Today you are expected to be a size zero. When I started out, I didn’t know such a size even existed.”
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