HELLO TYRA:
MY NAME IS ROBIN AND I AM 38 YEARS OLD & HAPPILY MARRIED TO A GREAT MAN WITH 3 LOVELY CHILDREN AGE 16-15 & 6 YRS. I HAVE BEEN SO DEPRESSED AND INSECURE ABOUT MY BODY WEIGHT. ALL MY LIFE I STRUGGLED WITH DIETING AND TRYIN TO FIT IN. MY HUSBAND & MY KIDS ALWAYS TELLS ME MY WEIGHT IS FINE, AND I KNOW THEY LOVE ME BUT ITS NOT THE SAME.ITS GOTTEN SO BAD I'M AFRAID TO MAKE LOVE TO MY HUSBAND BECAUSE I DONT WANT HIM TO LOOK AT ME. I HAVE BEEN CLEAN AND SOBER FOR 12 YEARS AND STAYING AWAY FROM THE DRUGS WAS MY MAIN GOAL AND TAKIN CARE OF MY HOME AND FAMILY ALWAYS CAME FIRST AND ME SECOND. I GAINED ALL THIS WEIGHT AND FORGOT HOW TO LOVE ME! PLEASE HELP ME....I DONT HAVE A LOT OF FAMILY SUPPORT BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF MY FAMILY IS ACTIVE USING DRUGS AND I JUST STAY AWAY FOR MY OWN SAFETY...I REALLY CAN USE A MAKE OVER AND A SELF ESTEEM BOOST! PLEASE TYRA WALK WITH ME IN MY SHOES'AND SEE HOW I'M FEELIN. I GET SO DISCOURAGED SOMETIMES I JUST WANT TO HAVE A DRINK BUT I KNOW THATS NOT GOING TO HELP,IT WOULD MAKE ME FEEL NICE FOR A SECOND BUT THE PROBLEM WILL STILL BE THERE. PLEASE CONTACT ME AND HELP ME , LUV ME!
I FORGOT MY WAY HOME!!!!!

THANK YOU

Hi Tyra....I LUV ur show, i watch it everyday. I am a newleywed and i want to undergo a brazillian butt lift, but there is noone here in memphis that will perform this surgery. I kno that this will means so much to me and mu hubby....im kinda tired of my jeans saggin ogg me in the back. So if u can, i would love to be a guest on your show and have this procedure done!!! Thanks so much!!!

hi tyra and ellen iam chaminda from sri lanka every day iswotchin your programs on television its very good iwish both of u dont angry with me idont know english wery much iam livin in colombo ellen ur dance is very fany and tyra ur have very b u t full boddy

Hello just to start off i love your show i'm a 27 yr old single mom of a 2yr old and a 1 month old lil girls and im not working at the time on leave my house burnt down dec 12 07 i lost everything im living with my grandmother now well im 300 pounds ive tryed everything and cant loose i need some kinda surgry are help i dont want my kids going to school and people makin fun cause their mama is big i know how kids can be mean i used to get pick on for being low income but i got over it well tyra i hope u can help me thanks amy

Hello just to start off i love your show i'm a 27 yr old single mom of a 2yr old and a 1 month old lil girls and im not working at the time on leave my house burnt down dec 12 07 i lost everything im living with my grandmother now well im 300 pounds ive tryed everything and cant loose i need some kinda surgry are help i dont want my kids going to school and people makin fun cause their mama is big i know how kids can be mean i used to get pick on for being low income but i got over it well tyra i hope u can help me thanks amy

Hi Tyra,
My name is Nicole, I've been heavy for the most part of my life. When I gave birth to my son 3 years ago, I got a flesh eating bacteria and since then I have never felt sexy enough for my husband. They had to remove so much flesh eating bacteria from my C-SECTION FLAB that I am no what I call uneven and afraid my husband wont want me any more if I dont do something. I've tried loosing weight. I even got the lap-band and I am still over weight. Do you have any doctor friends who wouldnt mind doing a pro-bono kinda deal to fix me, so I can feel like myself again?

hi tyra, im a 18 year old girl in highschool. I had just gotten married in july 2007 and i've been trying to get a flatstomach to feel good about myself and its very hard. Its very hard to get a flat stomach or just back to my size 6-8.summer is coming and maybe you can help me. I would like to know is there any good doctors to give me liposuction treatment to make me feel better and sexy for my husband again.I personally think it is hard to live life as a married "big" girl, my husband is fine with it but i dont feel sexy anymore due to becoming over weight.thank you and i hope to at least get any information from you to help me live a better life and start college in the fall.

Tyra, I ahve watched many Talk shows in my lifetime. You cover ground other were scared to walk on. THANK YOU FOR BEING A BRAVE WOMAN... I am disabled and I see shows where the give wonderful gifts and things I'm not poor and suffering .But living on a limited goverment income. I want nice things too but can't afford them. Like underware and socks or be able to go to the movies and not have to save pennies to make a trip to the movies once a year. PLEASE do something for me help the people that live in small country towns like I do Gastonia North Carolina. I don't even have a suit to wear to church on sundays .I just would like to be dressed nice and able to hold my head up. And say yes I look good to even if I am poor...THANK Tyra I Love You ALWAYS Harvey in Gastonia NC

My name is Mindy Bennett and I am a proud Army wife and mother of three beautiful boys. My husband is the most amazing man in the world, currently he is on a tour to Guantanamo Bay cuba and should return in the fall. We have been together for 7 years and I owe him my world. To this day My own seld confidence effects our relationship, he will not say it and does everything he can to make me feel beautiful and sexy but never has his goal been met. I am hoping with your help that when he comes home may be I could be intament with the lights on or with out covering my body. It took nearly the first year of our marriage for me to be able to make love completely nude but I have since replaced it with covering part of myself with sheets or blankets or having to wear a nighty that covers most of my body. As much as he does for me I would love to be able to find the confidence enough to give him the intamacy that he deserves. I think there is nothing more in this world that could complete us. I begging you to help me be confident enough with myself that I can be nude alone, I cant even take a bath in the light without bubbles most of the time I use candels to shelter myself from witnessing something that I find nausiating. I dont know how to be sexy in clothes, When wearing anything tight or revealing I wear sweaters over. Please Please help me Tyra, I have tried everything and can not breakl out of this.

Hi Tyra, my name is Tonya. I am a very busy mom of 2 beautiful girls. I work 60+ hours a week taking care of 7 kids all day. I do daycare out of my home. When I get up at 5:30am to care for children, I find it hard to get ready for the day. I don't have time to do my hair, make-up or even get out of my pj's. I would love to get this makeover!! I feel it would boost my self-esteem and make me feel so much better...refreshed. Please consider me for this make-over. I am a huge fan of yours...YOU ROCK!!

Hi tyra, well this is not for me. This is for my mother. She is 53 turning 54 in august. She is the most loving mother i can ever think of. There are 5 of us. 3 sons and 2 daughters. I am the youngest. I am 18 turning 19 and the oldest just turned 35. So my mom has struggled all her life dealing with us and working. She is a home provider and deals with odd scheduled times. So she lost all interest in even trying to make herself look good. When we go out somewhere. I sometimes get embarrassed cuz she will leave the house in a big tee shirt and jeans. She doesnt dress because she thinks she is over weight. Everytime we go shopping we hardly ever buy anything for my mom because when she tries on something she feels insecure about herself. She thinks that everyone will just look at how big she is. When she tries on clothes and it dont fit she has to look for a bigger size. It hurts her when she has to do that. She weighs at least about 180, around there. She has seriously stop trying to give herself a new look. She has kept the same hair style ever since she was.... Well ever since before i was born. My mom also has belpalsy on the left side of her face and it depresses her cuz she cant find out how to fix it. On top of that she has rosacia on her nose, chin and forehead. It sometimes spreads to her cheeks then goes away. She gets really depressed about it. She hates how she looks. My mom is a good christian woman and enjoys living her life. She hardly ever goes out. But i just want my mom to be happy. I want her to feel good about the way she looks. So please tyra! PLEASE! Help my mom. Please... She has done so much and she deserves it. Please tyra. Help out my mom.
Sincerely,
the baby of the family.
Eufemia (Ofie) Garza

Hello Tyra,
My name is Lisa and I am turning 24. I believe a makeover especially done by you, would be exacly what I need to actually feel good about the way I look. People can say Im pretty/beautiful or whatever but I have never thought so.I've been in a few really bad break-ups in my life making me have low self-esteem. This affects my life in everything that I do and the person I want to become. My confidence just seems to come and go but has never been high enough to stay. I just want and need to love myself to be happy and make other people happy and have a healthy lifestyle. I want this year to be the year of change for myself. I can't live my life in insecurities anymore. I can even remember the last hair cut I've had.I know sad.It's long but always wear it up. I don't really know what kinda of clothes goes with my skin so I pretty mush always wear brown or black and make-up well.. I'm not good in that department either!My eyes are like cat eyes, people say and I cant seem to ever get the eyeliner how it should be. I need some help.I just wanna love myself and working as a nurse assistant I always have to smile and be energetic but on the inside, I truly feel sad and soo low most of the time. My other passion is singing but that's just a dream that seems way too far fetched when I have all these mixed feeling all the time. Please help me be someone I can wake up to in the morning and be ok with and love life and being who I truly am on the inside as well as the outside and help me show my true colors and fall in love with myself.
Maybe one day someone will fall in love with me and it will last because I will then shine. Thank you. Much love

Tyra,
My name is Brittany and I am young, married and desperate. I had a lot of dental work through my teens, but as soon as my braces came off, I stopped going for check-ups. That has really cost me. I called to book an appointment with a dentist today, because I know that I'm in need of fillings, and to possibly get a tooth pulled, and I found out that just the preliminary check-up is more than my husband and I can afford. I've been gaining weight since my husband and I got married and I'm starting to get quite depressed. I'm at a loss of what to do, so I'm asking for your help.Thanks for your time.
Brittany

Hi tyra, well this is not for me. This is for my mother. She is 53 turning 54 in august. She is the most loving mother i can ever think of. There are 5 of us. 3 sons and 2 daughters. I am the youngest. I am 18 turning 19 and the oldest just turned 35. So my mom has struggled all her life dealing with us and working. She is a home provider and deals with odd scheduled times. So she lost all interest in even trying to make herself look good. When we go out somewhere. I sometimes get embarrassed cuz she will leave the house in a big tee shirt and jeans. She doesnt dress because she thinks she is over weight. Everytime we go shopping we hardly ever buy anything for my mom because when she tries on something she feels insecure about herself. She thinks that everyone will just look at how big she is. When she tries on clothes and it dont fit she has to look for a bigger size. It hurts her when she has to do that. She weighs at least about 180, around there. She has seriously stop trying to give herself a new look. She has kept the same hair style ever since she was.... Well ever since before i was born. My mom also has belpalsy on the left side of her face and it depresses her cuz she cant find out how to fix it. On top of that she has rosacia on her nose, chin and forehead. It sometimes spreads to her cheeks then goes away. She gets really depressed about it. She hates how she looks. My mom is a good christian woman and enjoys living her life. She hardly ever goes out. But i just want my mom to be happy. I want her to feel good about the way she looks. So please tyra! PLEASE! Help my mom. Please... She has done so much and she deserves it. Please tyra. Help out my mom.
Sincerely,
the baby of the family.
Eufemia (Ofie) Garza

Hi Tyra,
My name is Shauna and I am 24 years old. I am 3 1/2 months pregnant and feel awful about my myself. I want to look beautiful and be proud that I am pregnant. I don't know what to wear and my skin is really bad. My back and arms break out so bad that I have such low self esteem. I always have. I just wish like other people I could wear anything I wanted and not worry about my skin. I've been to the derm. Nothing seems to help me. Now that I am pregnant it has gotten worse. I understand hormones have something to do with it but it truly ruins my life. I never have felt good about myself. It gets to the point of hurting really bad. I think that I am the only one with this problem. I have had it since I was a teenager. What can I do?

Tyra,
My life has thrown me soo many curve balls i need a image of myself i can respect. I am a young mom and wife. I have made some mistakes and my body image is horrible. I am now heavier then i was wheni was pregant. stress has caused the pounds to pile on. I have a one yr old marriage and child. My husband thinks i do not take care of myself and my daily life reflects my lazy ways. my entire teen life i have had issuses wiht acne and nothing ever seems to work. even cover up does not hide them. i dont have an outlet to destress and if i thought i looked better i would be motivated and my husband would be as well to try to better myself. my family all try to convince me im pretty still but.. i jsut cant see it under my blah hair and wardrobe.regardless of anything else, i am going to try once im able to better my self image if possible.

Tyra,
I don't know where to begin in my quest to tell you my story as to why I feel I have a very serious need for a personal makeover. So I guess I will start with the most recent, and most obvious, episode in my life.
My boyfriend/fiancé' just left me last May of 2007, for his ex-wife...for the second time! I was with him for 5 years and I moved to the West coast from the East coast to be with him. I have known him for 27 years so I figured it was a safe bet. Wrong!
It has been a tumultuous relationship to say the least. There were a lot of mental and some physical abuse issues within the "relationship".
He walked out on me and left me behind with 2 children, no job or any other source of income, a dog, a cat, and he had not paid the rent or mortgage for 2 months, and had my cell phone and all of the utilities turned off when he left.
I was legally declared disabled last year and have not been able to work. I have filed for my SSI/Disability but from what they say, it can take from 2 to 4 years to receive any payment. I have been desperately trying to save my home and pay the bills with just a roommate but it's still not close to covering everything. My child's father does not pay child support either.
Here is why I want...no, need a makeover:
I literally have not had a haircut since last April of 2007. That will be almost a year next month!
I also only have 1 pair of jeans. I have gained about 20 pounds and they are the only jeans that I can still almost fit into. They also happen to have 3 holes in them: 1 in the crotch area, and 2 on the thigh area of each leg because I have to wear them everyday and they have begun to wear out.
I can't afford to get a new pair, even at the Goodwill. These things are considered a luxury to me that can not be afforded.
Every dime I have goes toward trying to save my home and make sure my child has everything he needs. I am 2 payments away from losing my home and it's frightening as it's almost paid off.
On top of everything else, my car broke down 2 weeks ago and I can't afford to have it fixed.
I just graduated from college last year, with honors, and received my associates degree in Medical Assisting. Because of my new disability, I was never able to go out and put my new degree to good use.
I had such plans to make my future so bright and stable for both myself and my children, and now I've lost everything. Everything.
Tyra, I feel so ugly right now. Besides being dumped for the same woman...twice, gaining the extra weight, and turning 40 just last week (which really didn't help anything!), I feel like the ugliest person in the world.
I also never had a mother around to show me how to really put on makeup so it would be nice to finally learn!
I also feel like no one will ever want me again and my self confidence is completely shot...no one is ever going to want me again.
I can't believe my life has turned out like this.

Thank you, Tyra for being such a wonderful and positive role model for all of us. You are truly an inspiration to us.

I am a 16 year old city girl living in an old counrty town, Elizabeth, Colorado. Living out there for the past year has made me lose all sense of the fashion world. Your shows, Tyra and America's Next Top Model honestly keep me up to date. I would appreciate this opportunity more then anyone would understand.
I have never truly been kept up to date with the whole fashion world, although I have tried my best to stay current in the trends my peers tend to set. I don't want this makeover for myself, I want it to prove to my mother that her daughter can actually be beautiful. She has always been my inspiration, but I feel I can never meet her expectations. With this makeover, I feel it would bring us closer, and it would be an excellent expirence for the both of us.

TYRA IREALY LOVE YOU AND INSPIRE YOU IVE BEEN THOUGH ALOT IN THE LAST MOUNTH SO PLEASE RIGHT BACK TO ME.AND I WOULD LOVE TO BE ON YOUR SHOW ANS ALSO GET A MAKEOVER THANK YOU SO MUCH SINCERLY
SHAUNA WARD

I am a struggling mom of 3. I have worn my hair just pulled back since I was in high school. This is kinda bad. I have recently enrolled in a college to change my life for the better. I am unable to land a decentjob. I am very uncomfortable with the way that I look. I am constantly wearing baggy shirts and pants to hide my figure. I have seen what you can do. I am looking for some pointers and hopefully a way to feel better about myself. Thank you and I love your show I find it very insirational.

Tyra,
I Am Only 13YearsOld,
But Image Is A Very Important Thing To Pretty Much Every Middle School Girl.
My Hair,
I Get It Done Maybe Twice A Week,
But I Have Ugly Frizzy Curly Hair,
I Straighten It And All But My Hair Is Going To Burn ALLOFF!
That Would Be Like A NightMare..
Do You Have Any Advice How I Could Style My Hair To Go Great With The Curls?

That Would Be Greatly Apreciated.:D

xoxo
Sincerly, Devon.

Hi Tyra, I really need your help. See, I've got very long, strong hair. From the top of my hair line down the back is a little over 51 inches. I always have people comment on how amazing it is. Now, with all this new craze about woman with long hair. I was wondering if I could do anything fun with it. Like show it to the world. Is there any advice you might have for me?

Hi Tyra My name is Linda and i am a big fan of your show. I need a big favor my husband has always been heavy all his life and now at 28 yrs. old he has lost alot of weight his lost 200lbs. and has alot of flabby skin and is embarraste he doesnt know much about fashion and how to dress since his lost alot of weight. He is a great guy and father of two and he deserves this makeover. He needs to boost his self esteem and help with fashion please help!!!!!!!! thank you.

Hi Tyra,

My name is shawanta and i'm 29yrs old and i have a 12yr old son. modeling is something that was always on my mind

I'm a 33 year old man, just faced divorce, I don't feel old but the years havent been the kindest to me, I would love a make over to set me on a path of understanding the 30's...