Tyra Banks: ‘Being Black & Curvy Hindered My Career’
Tyra Banks has revealed she was initially rejected by the fashion industry for being “black and curvy”.
The catwalk-queen-turned-talk-show-host says it was hard for her to break into the modelling world because her shape and colour didn’t fit the traditional model mould.
“My biggest obstacle was that I was black and curvy,” adding that her agency had a list of “designers who will not book Tyra because of hips and breasts,” she told the ‘New York Times’.
