Hey Tyra!
How do you make a bump on your nose appear smaller I'm 15 and I am stressing over it I can't stop thinking that everyone's looking at it please help!

TYRA AND BEAUTIFUL STAFF, I AM A 28 YEAR OLD WOMEN, I HAVE 2 KIDS 9YEAR OLD DAUGHTER AND A 2 YEAR OLD SON, 1 DEADBEAT BABY DADDY AND THE OTHER ONE SO SO. IM AM LOW INCOME, BUT I DO WORK, I ALSO SING AND WOULD WISH TO BE KNOWN BUT IM NOT. I AM STRESSED OUT. CANT GET A DECENT MAN. IM STRUGGLING AND I JUST NEED A BREAK. I AM ALREADY A NICE LOOKING WOMEN. I AM JUST STARTING TO LOOSE MY SELF. PLUS MY DAUGHTER GAVE ME THESE STRETCH MARKS AND A FLABBY STOMACH AND I ALLWAYS SAY IM GONNA GET A TUMMY TUCK, I TRIED EXERCISING AND ETC. BUT IT JUST WONT WORK...MY HAIR!!! I GUESS DUE TO THE STRESS ITS FALLING OUT AND I WOULD LOVE FOR TYRA'S HAIR DRESSER TO DO MY WRAPP AND COLOR AND ETC JUST LIKE TYRA'S. HELP ME OUT. IM IN PITTSBURGH PA , I AM WILLING TO MISS WORK AND GET A BABYSITTER FOR THIS MAKEOVER. I ALSO HAVE A FRIEND BY THE NAME OF LASHONDA THAT NEEDS THE MAKEOVER TOO. HER SITUATUION IS A LITTLE MORE EXTREME..........................................................TYRA AND STAFF HELP A SISTA OUT

Ok Tyra,
I really don't know excatly how to tell you in words how bad I need your help, but her goes....
let me start by telling you alittle bit about me. I grew up in the small, small town of Martinsville, Va., I was raised around 3 boys all my life, my mother is preacher so she wears only skirts and dresses, so I grew up a major tom boy. I never really had girl friends, the ones that I had I lost when my parents made me go to a different high school then my friends, whom I was with from elemtary school, so I pretty much was a loner in school because I didnt know anyone. Anyway, high school was really the first time in my life when I actually felt that I wanted to dress like a girl, and be pretty like the other girls, so I tried to mimick what I saw the other girls wearing, but stuff never looked as good on me as it did on them. I got alittle better towards the end of high school because I just stopped caring about what people thought, I was there to go to school not impress them, you kno, so...... I graduated in 2006. Now, Im 19 years old and I have a 7 month old little girl. To tell you truthfully and honestly Tyra, Im stuck, and what I mean by stuck is that, were Im at in my life now, I really don't know were to go with it you know, I want to be the best mother I know how, but how??? Anyway, I feel like Im at a point in my life that I need help!! I feel like I need to grow up and dress and look like a woman, if for nobody else for my childs future, because how can I know were to tell her to go if I don't know. After I had my child my body changed alot, and I really don't even know what size bra, pants, anything I wear anymore, I just feel ugly in everything I put on, I don't like to go out because I feel like I never have anything to wear. I guess what Im really trying to say is I want to feel like the beautiful, intelligent, confident, and sexy young woman I know I am deep down inside but I have no idea how to do that tyra, no idea what so ever, Im crying out to you tyra please, please help me, I need this so bad I can't explain the confidence boost this will give me to feel like I can leave the house and go places in life.On a lighter note lol, I told my boyfriend that for my 20th birthday (Nov. 25)I was gone upgrade myself like Beyonce say, right, but what he don't know is I have no idea how Im gone do it! I was thinking I'll buy me some high heel knee-boots,he'll think that's a upgrade for me cause I never wear heels girl, but I need a big upgrade from head to toe, Im talking life changing. Even though I know most likely, Im not going to be picked, I just want you to know that, telling you all of this helped, I needed to get that off of my chest.
thanx, Brittany

it's me again. if you see how i look and dress. you'll know why i need this makeover. i would go in details about my life but i don't want to waste anymore of you time

hello miss Tyra
i'm 24 years old and really need a extreme makeover. my feet,hands, and lip are too big. i also need some help with hair, makeup, and about everything there's to know about fashion. when i look at my feet, hands, and lips, i feel like a man. my whole life i just feel so ugly about myself, always looking down so nobody can see my face. i don't know how to put makeup on, i'm too poor to spend money on myself. i don't really have any clothes. i wear the same pant everytime i go somewhere. i don't like to go anywhere cause i don't like getting dress. and my hair is always a mess. oh yeah i almost forgot my teeth too. my teeth is so yellow and i need braces. i know i'm asking for alot. so would you please help me tyra, i really need this makeover to help me look up.

hello tyra.ON AUG.31,2001 I WAS TOLD THAT HAD BREAST CANCER AND THAT MY BREAST HAD TO BE REMOVE. I WAS ONLY 33YRS OLD THEN THE REASON WHY I'M E-MAIL U BECAUSE WHEN I DID CHEMO-TREATMENT SOME OF MY TEETH FELL OUT AND MY MOUTH HURT ALL THE TIME AND THE BAD PART ABOUT MY STORY IS MY HEALTH INSURANCE WILL NOT PAY 4 THE WORK THAT I NEED. TYRA I'M SO TRIED OF THE PAIN PLEASE CAN U HELP ME AND I WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT TOO.HOW CAN A HEALTH INSURANCE DO THAT TO A PERSON WHO STAY IN PAIN THE PLEASE HELP ME I WANT TO SMILE AGAIN I MISS TAKING PICTURES

I am seriously in need of a sense of style. I recently graduate college in Terre Haute, Indiana. After graduating with a nursing degree, my husband and I moved to his hometown of Fremont, California. I was always thought of as a tomboy at home, and I feel completely out of place here in California. I am twenty-four years old and still have no idea how to style my hair. I only know how to make it stick straight so that's what I do, everyday, since I was 17. It usually just gets pulled back into a ponytail. My tomboy look is not the only reason I stand out from the crowd. I am a fit, 6 foot tall woman. I am complimented on my beautiful smile often, but I know, there's more beauty hiding behind the poor fashion sense. I am beautiful on the inside and out; I only wish I could emphasize the outward beauty with my own personal style. I have no idea how to have my own style. I have shopped at the same ten stores my whole life. Those stores were my only options in such a rural area. Now, in California, I feel completely overwhelmed. There are so many options, that I don't know where to begin. I don't know what would flatter my body, or what is "too young" for me now. I recently donated most of my wardrobe because it was full of things I had been wearing since high school. Now, I am even more limited. I mostly wear T-shirts and jeans, except for when I am wearing scrubs to work. I don't want to be that T-shirt and jeans girl anymore. I feel there is a very sexy, beautiful woman in me trying to come out, but I am uncertain of how to bring out the new me. Please help me feel more confident about my beauty. Help me find my fashion sense in California. It's a whole new world here and I want to look like the whole new me.

hello, tyra. i really would love my 37 year old mommy to have a makeover. she has been through so much in her life and never seems to have any good luck. but she is a very good mommy to me and my two brothers. she has always been the hard-working, single mom, who always put others before herself. her hair is damaged, her teeth are falling apart, and she barely has any clothes to wear. the most important thing im worried about is her health. she smokes ciggaretes, and she doesnt even have any insurance to go to the doctor or dentist. even though we never really have alot of money, my mommy will always find fun stuff for us to do. i cry almost every night thinkin about my mommy and how she has let herself go. i have a 2 year old brother and things are getting very tough. i am a 15 year old honor student and in dreams of becoming a model/fashion desginer so i can take care of my family. please tyra, i am begging. im not asking for much. just maybe a simple makeover so my mother could feel good about herself again.

thanks veryyyyy much tyra, you are truly an inspiration.

love, asia

please contact me at:
myspace.com/asia1893
OR
asia_capo@yahoo.com

Hey tyra,
my name is Shavon and i don't think, i know my mom needs a makeover, My moms 37 she dies her hair different colors all the time and the shades she chooses never looks right with her skin, she never dresses up! All my mom wears is hamy down T-shirts, and old shorts, that's all. she even wears that stuff out to eat and i'm not just talking about sit down fast food restraunts, i'm also talking about sit down nice restraunts!!!!!! My mom every now and then will go to buluxie and she'll wear makeup, but she doesn't pick the right shades, she picks really dark, it doesn't help, and then last but not least she wears her hair the same everyday, on top of her head and it's curly, i talked her into letting me straiten her hair once and she went and washed her hair again so it would go back curly(she hated it) and i loved it on her! Don't get me wrong my mom's beautiful but she doesn't show it! just if she would take some time for herself and fix her self up, it would show, but she never does so Tyra please Give my mom a tailored by Tyra makeover.

I just want a make over for my new life.

hi tyra i did not put my real name beacause i am 11 years old i love your show but you rarely do shows for kids my age i was wondering if you you would do a show just for kids

hi tyra!.. ill be turning 21 next week on the 12th.i came here in the U.S 2006. I came here without any pimple on my face and now i have a lot of acne on and it left me a lot of dark spots.I would be happy if i can have the face that i had before.

MY NAME IS STAR AND I LIVE IN SANDIGO CA AND HERES MY STORY:

GROWING UP WAS THE HARDEST THING IN MY LIFE SEEING MY PARENTS FIGHT CONSTANTLY SO THE MORE THEY FOUGHT THE LESS I WOULD EAT SO AT THE POINT WERE I WAIGHED 85 POUNDS AT THE AGE OF 14 AND 15 MY PARENTS TOOK ME TO THE DOCTERS AND I GOT A CHECK UP DOCTER WANTED TO TALK TO MY MOM ALONE BUT I OVER HEARD THE DOCTER SAY THAT IF I DIDNT EAT I WOULD DIE SO MY PARENTS TOOK ME HOME AND TRY TO FEED ME AT THE POINT IT WAS HARD FOR ME TO SWOLLOW SO I WOULD EAT LITTLE BITES AT THE TIME THIN I STARTED GETTING USTO ALL THE FOOD AND I GAID WAIGHT SO FAST THAT MY BODY STREACHED OUT AND MY BODY HAS STRECH MARKS THAT WOULD HUNT ME FOREVER I CANT EVEN WERE SMALL SHIRTS OR TIGHT WITH ALL THE WAIGHT I LOST IT HURTS ME COUSE AM ONLY 17 I WANTED TO HAVE A BIRTHDAY PARTY BUT IT ALWAYS COMES TO Y HEAD WAT ABOUT IF SOME ONE SEES YOUR STREACH MARKS IN THAT DRESS I CANT EVEN WERE A BABTHING SUIT TO THE BEACH SO I DONT BOTHER EVEN GOING AND TO TOP IT OF WITH I CANT GET RID OF MY BABY FAT .AND I WISH I GUST COULD FIX MY BODY .THAT WAY I COULD GET UP IN A STAGE AND PUT ON A DRESS AND SING TO MY PARENTS WITHOUT NO EMBARESSMANT .SO PLEASE TYRA HELP ME GET IN SHAPE.

tyra,
i am 22 years old and i am 5'8 tall and i have very bad teeth i am afraid to smile i have a 6 month old son and i dont want him to grow up seeing his mom with bad teeth . i could really use a make over tyra.

tyra, my name is april. im am getting ready to turn 18. i am 5 feet tall & now i weigh around 200 lbs. i want to change my look for college. i just started my first year. i see all of these people wearing these cute clothes that i would LOVE to wear but i dont think i would look good in them. my friends have always seen me in t-shirts & plain shorts & pants. i just recently started wearing jeans like this past year. i just never felt comfortable in them. i joined weight watchers i think a year ago. i lost 43 pounds & i was so excited. now since summers almost over i have gained like 15 back & i would really love for you to help me lose more weight & help me find a cute up-to-date look. it would change my life forever!

Tyra,I couldnt even begin to imagine how many letters upon letters you recieve everyday from all people from all walks of life,but I'm hoping you can take the time to read mine.My name is Sierra.Im a 16 yr. old junior attending Clarksville High.Cosmetology is my main focus.I love being able to boost someone's self esteem and make them feel incredible.I've got really sweet,caring and down to earth friends and life at home is great.My mom and I are the absolute closest we've ever been and I'm really enjoying having her as a friend.The only one thing I wish I could change,any one thing at all would be my weight.Although I am not morbidly obese,my weight has bothered me all my life,however cliche that sounds,but it has.I stand at 5'6'' 210 lbs.I've always been bigger than my friends and have just always felt insecure and uncomfortable around anyone.Over the summer however I did manage to lose 32 lbs from the staggering 235lbs,even though 10 has crept back on.So I excitedly waited for the first day of schhol.I wasn't a size 2 but I felt better about me,better about who I was. My return to school was nothing like I'd expected,no "hey you look great", or turning heads.I got none of that,maybe one or two people had told me I had done good,which is always nice to hear,but I felt like I had not accomplished anything.My self esteem plummeted.I felt like I was right back at the starting line at the beginning of summer,fat.The pain of knowing I pushed myself to eat right and excersize was all for none,hurt.Now with school starting up again trying to "diet" is hard,I can't exactly bring a bag of skinless chicken,so I either eat a burger and fries or nothing at all,which later at home is compensated for all the snacks I have.I look up to you as a woman who is true and caring with the personality of a godess,I want to be that girl!The girl people want to be around,not because my shape or size,but my personality and confidence.But confidence is hard to come by when the person you feel like on the outside is not the same staring back at you.At times I try and bring down those girls who I admire so greatly,but in my heart I want that so bad.I want for anyone to look at me and say "wow shes so gorgeous."My personality is so amazing once someone truly gets to know me and look beyond my body.But today it's about looks.Changing for everyone is not what I'm about,changing who I am for me is most important.Im never going to be a size 0,but I want to slimmer and happier.I love shopping,but my options are limited due to the fact most jeans and shirts dont run in my size.So I stray away from it all and throw on a hoodie or a band t-shirt.Going into a clothing store and trying on that shirt you love so much and it fitting you properly is a feeling I want so bad.I look up to you in so many ways and admire you dearly,so that is why I'm asking for your your help.To help me help myself.Thank you so so much for taking time to read my letter,always a fan Sierra

HI TYRA MY NAME IS LASHREE I AM 23YRS OLD I STAND 5"3 250 LBS I HAVE TRIED TO LOOSE WIEGHT FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER. I'M ASKING FOR YOUR HELP BECAUSE I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO I HAVE TRIED DIETING,WALKING,CHANGING THE WAY I EAT AND THERES NOTHING THAT HELPS I ONLY GET BIGGER. I AM A SINGLE MOTHER OF AN 9YR OLD DAUGHTER THAT IS THE LOVE OF MY LIFE. IT HURTS BECAUSE SHE IS SO SWEET SHE WILL NOT TELL ME IM FAT IF SHE HEARS SOMEONE SAY IT SHE WILL GET SO UPSET IT HURTS HER. SHE TRIES TO HIDE IT FOR ME BUT I SEE IT IN HER FACE. SHE WILL WALK WITH ME EVEN WORK OUT WITH ME ANYTHING TO HAVE A LITTLE MOM, I HAVE BEEN OVER WIEGHT ALL MY LIFE AND IM LOST. I WORK THE EVENING SHIFT SO I DONT KNOW HOW TO EAT WITH THE HOURS I WORK. COULD YOU PLEASE HELP ME LOOSE THIS WIEGHT I WOULD DIE TO KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO BE SMALLER FOR ONE DAY.
I ALSO WOULD LIKE YOU TO KNOW I NAMED MY DAUGHTER AFTER YOU IN HIGHER LEARNING I EVEN SPELLED IT THE SAME WAY "DAIJA" AND IT'S CRAZY BECAUSE SHE CAN OUT BEATIFUL JUST LIKE YOU EVEN THE SAME COLOR CRAZY HUN.

Dear Tyra,

I've always struggled with weight and I've decided to try LA Weight Loss since I gained 50lbs (on top of the 35 I was already trying to lose) while I was pregnant. I was up around 225lbs just before my daughter was born and I was 175 before I got pregnant. I'm now down to around 190lbs and feeling better but still feel aweful.

My husband is always telling me I'm beautiful...he's amazing. I just wish I could see what he does. I'm 25 and never wear anything trendy like I used to. I even studied fashion design in college and GRADUATED but I don't know how to dress myself anymore! Unfortunately, my low self-esteem (a life-long battle) gets the best of me. I wish I could feel good about myself because it would make it easier to be intimate with my wonderful husband and to go out in public.

My daughter is 8 months old (born January 1, 2007) and I don't want her to grow up with the self-esteem issues I've always had. I don't want to pass them on because it's an aweful feeling to never be happy with yourself.

Can you teach me how to look and feel good about myself for my family's sake?

Thanks for listening!

Tyra Banks,
Ok, I’m 19 years old, size 7-9, 5 feet tall, and 135 lbs. NOT HOT! Since the birth of my baby boy Terrence (June 5th 2007) I’ve been looking like an umpalumpa. I use to be 110lbs., size 0-1, not a stretch mark in sight, and well, I flaunted it. Now you’re lucky to see me out of the house let alone in something the actually fits. My husband always joked around with me saying he married me because I am a white Tyra Banks. Since I’ve lost my looks, and my confidence, he hasn’t said that to me, I am no longer Jessica… My wardrobe is now big shorts and big t-shirts to cover up my BIG belly and really BIG legs. Joe (husband) and I were living on our own until he lost his job. Now we’re living with his parents. Lets just say between moving, cleaning, raising a 3-month old, and being flat broke my appearance has done a 180. I want to feel beautiful again, me again. I don’t want to cry every night, and tell my husband not to touch my jiggles (fat). I want and need to feel human. I need a fresh start, a Tyra start on my new life with my beautiful son and new husband. Tyra, I am in desperate need for help. Always, Jessica Britt

HELLO TYRA, IM 20 YRS.OLD AND LIKE MOST MOTHERS IM ALWAYS GOING AND MOVING TAKING CARE OF MY CHILDREN,WORK,OR MY FINACE.I GOT STARTED PRETTY EARLY WITH MY FAMILY.I FEEL LIKE A OLD WOMEN TRAPPED IN A YOUNG WOMEN BODY I HAVE REALLY FELL OUT OF THE WHOLE FASHION SCENE. IM TRYING TO TAKE MY LIFE AND MY CAREER TO ANOTHER LEVEL BUT IT SEEMS AS IF I JUST CAN'T GET THERE BECAUSE OF MY APPEARENCE. I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO TAILOR MY STYLE TO A FRESH NEW ME.

Tyra,
My boyfriend and I have been going through a really hard time. He is slipping further and further away from me into his own world. I believe he is suffering from severe deppression and all that he can show anymore is hate. We have been together for almost five years and I have always known that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him. I am 25 years old and now have to accept the fact that the future I had been dreaming of for the past few years is no longer. I must start all over again and I want some help dropping the old so I can start the new.

Dear Tyra,
My name is Sarah. I am 22 years old college senior and I have never owned a pair of pretty shoes. I wear a size 5-5 1/2E and it is impossible to find shoes that fit, especially dress shoes, and I cannot afford to get shoes that are custom made. I've even had to resort to wearing mens flip-flops because womens flip-flops are just too narrow for my feet. I would love to be able to update my wardrobe from jeans and tshirts, but not everything goes with tennis shoes and flip-flops. Can you help?
Thank you,
Sarah

Tyra,
I am a 24 yr old mother of one, married, hoping to have another child soon. I work as a unit secretary in an Intensive Care Unit in a country-wide known hospital. I am also working per-diem throughout the rest of the hospital. Being of the more "country-type" woman, working in the suburban area, I kinda clash with the rest of my co-workers (I don't know how I even got the job, must have been my outgoing/bubbily personality- they probably took one look at me and thought "We'll take mercy on this poor woman and give her a job, maybe one day she will come into the 21st century!")
I could give a whole list of other reasons why I need a makeover, but that would just take too much time. Wouldn't wanna bore ya! Thanks;)

HI TYRA,
I am 18 and I want some help with my mom she is now 50 and still looks young she has been divorced ever since i was 4 she had 5 children. when she divorced my dad it was becuase he was very abuseive to her and was really controlling she was married to him for 15 yrs until she left him she wanted a better life for us. when she left my oldest brother was 10 and the youngest was 3 she did not know how to drive or speak english becuase she came from mexico and even their she had a very bad childhood she was the oldest of eight and she had to takecare of them my mom came from a very poor family and growing up she didnt have much and now 50 yrs later she still has not done anything for herself all the time goes to rasing us and shes doing a wonderful job and shes the best mom I could ask for all her money goes to bills and food and other nessecary things. she never has time for herself and all the stress that her life has been I just want to make her relaxed and pampered for at least oneday to relax to feel beautiful becuase ahe always just puts on a ponytail and dresses like she dont care I can see it in her face that shes tired and I just want to see her smile again and feel confedent again thank you for your time!!!! lot of love I never miss your show
-bianca

~*Hi Tyra*~
I am a 19 year old teen mom I am still very young but im am realizing i am starting to let my self go do to all the duties I have of being a mom, I am planing to go back to school and would love to go with a new look and attitude on life. Thanks Tyra!