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Hello Tyra,

The show you did with Alek was one of the most inspirational I've seen regarding women of color. Could you do a show with dark-sinned women from various ethnic groups? For example, could you do a show with beautiful very dark women who are African, Latina and South Asian? Though beaufiful, they could tell of the trials and tribulations they've gone through, just for being dark. When you look at world media, especially in countries that are non white, the male role models can be dark, but all the women featured as beautiful are very light or white. This is deliberate and society needs to understand this. Anytime you ignore a group (any group of people) or place them in the background it is an invalidation. Know what I means? Dark-skinned people (especially women) are being systematically invalidated!
You only need to know who has power over the world-wide communication systems to see why this is happening. The world is AT LEAST 65% non white. Yet the world beauty standard is white. Whites may not have a problem with this, but I know that non whites do. To look at TV you'd think that we lived in a predomiantely white world. WE DON'T! So why is it protrayed that way and why is beauty protrayed that way? Darker Non
whites are never going to be satified with their image unless they get some control over it. This is something WE DO NOT HAVE! As people of color, we need to stop perpetuating this, by supporting this one-sided image of the world and feeling ashamed of ourselves and start doing something proactive like organizing and "putting our money towards media that supports us. I'm not asking that you do this, Tyra, you have your hands full already. But by exposing such women and what they go through ( and well as how they overcome) continues to shed light on this issue. This inspires us to stop being apathetic about how the media portrays us and to start doing something about it.

Tyra, I watched your show Thursday Oct11,2007 and thoroughly enjoyed Alex Wek. She is a beautiful black woman inside and out. Unfortunately, there is TOO MUCH emphasis on color esp. in the black race. I am considered a light skin black woman and always hated it and as soon as I learned that the sun would darken my skin I stayed in the sun.Due to the favortism(sp?)light skin blacks were and still receive. Beauty IS WITHIN!!! Thanks for a wonderful, informative show. You are a very SPECIAL YOUNG LADY and your show hopefully, enlightens people to many ventures

hello tyra,
i am nickole and i am from rossford ohio.please help me!! i am a 14 year old girl who cant help but to be everything everyone else expects from me!! for once i jus ant to be me!! please help me tyra! what do i do?

tyra,my name is caroline mwansa and am from africa.Am really happy for alek wek for achieving so much after she went through.I know what they went through in sudan because i live in a sudan area here in pittsburgh and i talk to my brothers fron sudan.I have been trying to break into the modelling indudstry but nothing has come up yet so for alek to be so successful is Gods blessings.Good job ladies,to you too tyra for the great work you are doing.

What i like Wek is that she is so natural and self-confident.She also expresses her self in a beautiful way.I always admire her, she came so far.She is an inspiration to many refugees.

I just want to say congrats on exposing such strong and controversial topic...although I felt it was safely done...Im sure it got people talking...Cause we all know it is there "FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET"...that is why we are not seen for our power and beauty...just you alone is a strong example of that...Model turn actress..turn TV mogul.. these positive images are always frown upon when it comes to the black race...If women of color are exposed to this...on a day to day bases we would truly be a force to be recon with...cause we already are...we just don’t know our own beauty...even the kitchen too... Tyra.... If it was up to them they would love to see us on TV rolling our necks robbing and stealing...or behind a jail cell to perpetuate the stereo type...and keep us at a level that is below them....When they take black models off the run way... it affects the world and every young black future doctor, scientist, lawyer, and future president...might sound dramatic but its the circle of life...And being once a young black girl…. now a women I know the affects of nature vs nurture...and now I’m a successful Black fashion designer that works in the industry and I know first hand how the color and class line are drawn..so blatantly...when I enter into a job interview, work place or even a fashion event....So its great that you are taking a stance and exposing this....Luckly, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Alec Wek...and she is truly a beautiful women...Thanks Tyra…..and people need to know that there is enough to go around…

I think the Sudanesse woman that was on the show today was so beautiful! does she models? she should!

I think the Sudanesse woman that was so beautiful! does she models? she should!

I admit when I saw you as "just a model" I didnt think of you being very friendly - I thought you were stuck up - but now thru your show I love you. Well the same with Alek Wek, I feel so grateful to have seen her on your show - she is truly a wonderful, kind, beautiful person. So I've learned a lession - how great someone can be if you just give it a chance.

EVERYONE TYRA IS GETTING MARRIED!! OMG I AM SOO HAPPY FOR HER!

Looks like a congratulations is in order. MediaTakeOut.com has exclusively learned that over the weekend talk show host Tyra Banks and her longtime boyfriend John Utendahl got engaged.

According to one of Tyra's family members, John popped the question during a private dinner at the 52 year old investment banker's NY apartment. The insider explained to MediaTakeOut.com, "John didn't make a big spectacle ... they were having dinner like they often do and he just got down on one knee and proposed."

Tyra immediately said yes and the two called friends and family to let them in on the good news. The insider told MediaTakeOut.com, "I haven't seen the ring but I've heard it's beautiful - the diamond is more than 10 carats."

No word yet on when the two plan on tying the knot. The marriage will be Tyra's first and John's second.

XOXOXO

Tyra, the woman who from Africa who said she had a hard time accepting her dark skin color. I was surprised. I thought she was another model. I was looking at her and thinking wow, her skin is so clear, smooth and beautiful. She needs to know how beautiful she is and I wish she could see what you and I see.

Tyra, the woman who from Africa who said she had a hard time accepting her dark skin color. I was surprised. I thought she was another model. I was looking at her and thinking wow, her skin is so clear and beautiful. She needs to know how beautiful she is and I wish she could see what you and I see.

Sorry for the typo. I meant I know many other multi-cultural families.

The ironic part of minorities not being represented equally in the fashion industry and magazines is that America is becoming more and more a multi-cultural society. Unfortunately, this reality is not being reflected in the media, movies, and magazines. I have a multi-cultural family and no many others who also have multi-cultural families and live in multi-cultural communities and attend multi-cultural churches.

I think African Americans and other minorities who feel they are not being represented in fashion, magazines, and by designers should stop spending their money supporting these entities since the only reality America seems to understand is green (money).

i hate to say it, but this "model blackout" doesn't surprise me. i mean, our horrid history speaks volumes. slavery was abolished in 1865, and most who fled to the northern states found quite brutal conditions there as well. it was STILL one hundred years from then when we saw the civil rights movement. and now, nationalities and skin color are still this bloody important! i just don't get it. i find myself looking at black, indian, asian, nordic, or any women and wanting something of their looks. plus, don't these designers realize how much more gorgeous some clothes look on dark skin? it's just frustrating that this crap still goes on. i'd love to see more women like alek in fashion. she's strikingly gorgeous and humble, and has a fierceness that lets you know that not just anyone can survive in africa, or make it out alive. this woman has guts, and spirit! absolutely breathtaking. another group almost NEVER represented are the native americans, probably because they are nearly extinct as a people. so so sad. very moving show indeed. the other sudanese woman was so beautiful as well, and it must be sheer jealously that would make someone react negatively towards such a wonderful woman. these women come from a place where most of us "white folks" would die within a month. they're tall, lean, strong, and deeply spiritual. you just don't mess with africa! kudos to all so-called "primitive" cultures for staying true to themselves, their roots, and recognizing how deeply beautiful they are!

i hate to say it, but this "model blackout" doesn't surprise me. i mean, our horrid history speaks volumes. slavery was abolished in 1865, and most who fled to the northern states found quite brutal conditions there as well. it was STILL one hundred years from then when we saw the civil rights movement. and now, nationalities and skin color are still this bloody important! i just don't get it. i find myself looking at black, indian, asian, nordic, or any women and wanting something of their looks. plus, don't these designers realize how much more gorgeous some clothes look on dark skin? it's just frustrating that this crap still goes on. i'd love to see more women like alek in fashion. she's strikingly gorgeous, and with a fierceness that lets you know that not just anyone can survive in africa, or make it out alive. this woman has guts, and spirit! absolutely breathtaking. another group almost NEVER represented are the native americans, probably because they are nearly extinct as a people. so so sad.

Tyra I hope I'm not bothering you or something. I just wanna make a comment of the scene from the "alleged" racist show "Desperate Housewives". I am deeply hurt about what the producers of the show and the network which is ABC has to do with the racist remarks on that scene. I am also horrified with the fact that Teri Hatcher which we all know, a good actress wouldn't have said it. Even though it's a fictional character and such a fictional story, I am not really happy with what it conveyed. It talked about the med schools here in the Philippines, which they put hidden but derogatory remarks in the part of Filipinos working in the medical industry both here in our country and in the UNITED STATES... I am disappointed with what this whole ordeal is about. I admit that we have issues but have you AMERICANS put in your mind to avoid racial discrimination at all cost. We Filipinos are kind-hearted. We don't discriminate nor devalue anyone in this world. We have gone through worst in our country and it's impossible for us to cope such remark from a mere TV show that is hungry for ratings that to some point use racial remarks to get the pot of gold.

-ton