hi beautiful!! hahah i call everybody tht but my name is ashley mendoza im 19 n i live n houston texas..i have always wanted to model n have had many ppl tell me i should but u always have those ppl tht tell u u cant n tht has jus really got me down..n this is a dream of mine i jus cant let go until i try it..but i jus dnt kno how to get started..you inspire me to not let these ppl tell me i cant...i wanna prove them wrong..i look up to u n many ways! so i would really like help frm u to make my dream come true..

Hey tyra its Della i love you and your show so much. I am your number one fan really and i want to know how can i get noticed so i can get discoverd bye

HEY TYRA
MY NAME IS DEKA,FROM ETHIOPIA.PEOPLE ALWAY TELL ME THAT I LOOK LIKE EMAN AND ALSO I HAVE MODLE LOOK.PLEASE TYRA HELP ME I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START.THANK YOU

Hello Ms.Banks I just want you to know that I'm proud of you and everything you've done for yourself. I wish I had that type of confidents. Well I just had a man baby 9 months ago and he is handsome enough to be a model. My only problem is everywhere I seem to go, to get him started they want me to pay them. Nicode'mus loves to take pictures and people asks me all the time to try. I live in chicago where do I go to give him a chance I was refused. This is not for me I just want to make sure that he has money for college and a life outside of childhood.

i wanted to be a modellike my sister Jade she look like me but she cuter than me and i never get pick ,but she older

hi tyra,

i'm jocelyn from the philippines. i just love your show and i'm also one of your fans. i really like you so much because you inspire and your my role model. as i watchted your talkshow i realize that i should follow my dreams but unfortunately i kinda need of a help and i really, really love to be a model. my friends told me that modeling requires thin and tall person like havinga height of 5'8. i don't have that kind of height and i'm 17 yrs. old. how can i be a be a model tyra?.

-love jocelyn-
p.s. i'll be so happy if you would answer my question. just email me tyra...jocelyn_conopio2006@yahoo.com.ph

hi tyra
this is paige!!
i love your show and i want to be on it
i want to be a moddle but i dont know how to get started. i am 12 and i live in wisconsin. first of all i dont know allot o moddle agensys any were around me. Do you think you could give me some tips on how to be a moddle. please please give me a call or right me a email. that would be great. one day i hope i will be just like you. you are my role moddle!!! and 1 more question what is the olddest you could go on americas next to moddle or the tyra show!!! thakyou so much and one day i hope you will call or email me. thanks
paige

Hi Tyra
I just wanna tell you that I'm a big fan of you, and I would like to be just like you later on in my life. I want to be a model and I've been told that I could be one, because I have what it takes, I'm 5'10.I watch the Tyra Banks Show all the time, and the America's Next Top Model every season, I want you to tell me what I can do to achieve my goal of modeling, it's something that I really love.I hope to hear from you as soon as you can.
~Love Rama~

Hey Tyra!!
I am Cadesha I want to be a model but dont know what to do.I am 14 years old and my family doesn't really have a lot of money

Hi Tyra:

I am over 50, 5'8' and 127 lbs. Can you informe me if there are any modeling agencies for women my age?

hey tyra,

ohhh my gosh tyra i am your biggest fan u dont even no !!!! u r my roel model and i look up to . i watch ur shows and every thing !!! i am 13 years old and i love you and i hope that you can e-mail me or call me some time !!!

tyra i have been told that i was ugly and i have also been told that i was so gorgues. and i do belive that i am pretty and i want to go into modelng but i need so advice on how to get started and what to expect. but please contact me some how. u dont even no how awsome that would be if u sent me an e-mail or called me ? that would be the best day of my life !! well i got to go..

love always your biggest fan,

Alyssa

Hey Tyra!
I would like to start by telling you that my 2 daughters, Christian 15 and Alexis 11, and I adore you. We watch The Tyra Show and ANTM, and at times you (or the content of your show) is a topic of conversation. It is only because of this, and the fact that we all look up to you, that I bring this to your attention. Last Wednesday (April 2, 2008) we were watching ANTM. I was disgusted at the remarks made to Whitney by the fashion designer with the last name Rolland and the tone of voice the remarks were made with. It made me realize that your two shows seem to contradict themselves. On The Tyra Show your message is loud and clear on the subject of the importance of the self esteem of young girls. I admire and respect that immensely. Yet on ANTM, you used a designer that told Whitney she was too big for her designs and she would never use a girl her size. Whitney is a size 10! Not only do I believe that a size 10 is normal, but also attractive and healthy. Yet from this designer young girls watching heard how this size is unacceptable. I remember hearing years ago how the industry was going to change the 'norm' for the average model. It has yet to happen. Maybe if influential people such as yourself made a stand against these people who continually repress woman larger than their standard size 2, the 'norm' would change. I realize it would be a slow process and anyone involved would be taking a risk in doing so, but if you don't take risks and/or stand up for what's right, then what's the point? You already are a risk taker, Tyra, and I write this with no disrespect to you whatsoever. If I had the clout and financial status to start a movement against all designers who only cater to a size 2, I would be there in a heartbeat. My 15 year old is a size 0-4 (depending on the label) and still thinks she is fat. It is very unsettling to me. Although I tell her she is on the verge of being too small, she continues to believe otherwise. Help me help her and all the other young girls in the world who are plagued by this stereotype, Tyra. If anyone can do it, it is certainly you!
From a size 10 (and okay with that) mom

hi I adore your progamma I am I have 11 years but he adored to be design when my mother was bigger says me to follow my dream so that in my country (Portugal)is not easy poor person to have possibilities to have design career therefore that when I will be older I go to try to go for England to obtain my dream I adore to know you tyra and one of my dreams if I already was design I would be one of my models... good bye kisses of one of yours fans

Hello Tyra,

I am 23 years old, i am 5'8 and I weigh 112. I am super skinny, too skinny i think. I am not anorexic or bulumic, i eat pretty much whatever i want and don't gain a thing. Do you think I could ever be a model. I get told all the time. But I don't see it. I literally have no figure, just straight up and down. I wrote in for a makeover because i need help. But It would be my dream to be model so that i could take care of my family. Please pick me for America's Next Top Model.
Much love your #1 fan,
Annamaria

hi tyra its me again. i totally forgot to say something in my last comment that i just sent you. ok i loved the episode of your show when u had on eve, omarion, dita, and bow bow. i've always been a Bow Bow fan so i was wondering if you could some how some way play match maker and kinda set somethin up so i could possibly meet Bow Bow. i know it sounds like some stupid little fan crushin on him. i bet you get tons of emails like this everyday but it would be so so so kool if i could meet him. even if it was just for like a few minutes. Thanks for listenin to one of my wishes. Your awsome.Ps I'm 16. i kinda forgot to mention that.

Love,
Stephanie

Hi there Tyra. my name is Stephanie and i've been thinking about modeling for quite some time now. Pretty much everyone i know says that i could be a model if i really wanted to. But i just think they're saying that. I love your show. i think its funny and interesting. Not to mention you are soooo beautiful and talented. U were an amazing supermodel and now a fabulous tv show host. It so kool how you can do everything. Hopefully i'll talk to you later Ms. Banks.

Love,
Stephanie

Hey Tyra! I am a 13 yr old girl whose dream is to model. I know you have heard many girls telling you that they want to model and its been their dream since they were little. Im different, I knew i wanted to model since i was 2 yrs old. Thats when I first saw your sports illustrated magazine with valeria mazza. I was still living in Argentina when this happened but I knew I wanted to be just like you. I saw the most common thing between us, the dark skin!!Yes, not all argenteanens are pale, and Im proud Im darker than the usual. Well, after I learned how to talk mature sentences my mom explained to me that you were a model. My mom never belived I really wanted to be a model, and still doesn't believe in me. Anyway, I followed you ever since I was five yrs. old and Im probably your biggest fan other than your mom. I moved to the US when I was seven and followed everything you did. I would watch your victoria secret fashion shows and would try to walk as fierce as you. In the third grade I started to observe my face, and my body and move it like a model would. Like you looked like when you were on tv. In school when no one was in the hallways I would turn my normal walk into this diva runway walk until I got in my classroom. I loved experementing with make up and drawing clothes and all the girly stuff. Although my childhood was devoted to modeling I had a very normal life. I loved sports, volleyball because I was tall. Hanging out with my friends etc. This countinued all through third and fourth grade. In fifth grade every Wednesday I would lock myself up in a room that had a tv in it and watch top model episodes. Top model was all I could think about in my life, I learned soo much since cycle one until this cycle 10 which Im very excited about watching every week. Although I could never stop thinking about top model and still can't stop I love getting perfect grades in school. I could die if I got a 90 % on a test!!Im in the 8th grade and Im about to graduate in June. The most Im going to miss from my middle school is my ELA teacher because she's in love with you just like me and where always practicing our runway walks with her and my group of friends. Her name is Emily, and my friends are, Amanda, Ashley, Erin, Amanda(2), and Ashley(2),and Nina my name is Jackie and I have the fiercest walk!haha. My friends and I just had a fashion show project for spanish class and I was fierce!We practiced 1 million times and I would make them watch your fashion show videos on youtube!! haha We had so much fun. And you'll see me in five years cuz as soon as I turn 18 Im runnning to top model auditions! Enough about me congrats on your BET honor, your talk show, and cycles of top model!I cried on that day that on your talk show you started crying because you still weren't married and stuff, cuz that might be me and Im scared that I love modeling so much that I'll forget about having a family=(Anyway i love modeling and you'll see me on cycle like 24! Don't you dare scare me like you scared Forunda on cycle 6 when you fainted(I was crying for like an hour and my mom had to yell at me to calm down), you also scared me this cycle when you faked your broken ankle. OMG! This is too long, I hope to see you sooner then when Im 18 and I will probably cry on the show cuz I know my family won't support me in this. Especially my mom, and grandma they want me to be a long lasting thing like a teacher but that's kinda boring! No fun photoshoots or fierce runway lessons from miss j!!! I love you sooooo much Tyra your the inspiration of my life, and without you there would be no Jackie!!!!

hey tyra,

I am fourteen and have been watching antm since cycle one. I would love to be on
your show as soon as i turn eighteen. Only their is one problem. I am only 5'5. I am not done growing yet but i do not think i will grow much taller. I read the application and saw that the requirement was 5'7. Is there anyway that if i was good enough(which i am) that i would be allowed on your show "Americas Next Top Model" it is my dream to model.

Hey Tyra my name is Tamara. I'm 13 and i live in Kissimmee Florida. I really want to be a model. My family and friends say that i'm great for it because i am tall but i tell them that you can't just be tall to be a model you also need to be FIRECE! I'M a fan of your show and me and my mom watch America's Next Top Model every Wednesday. I wish that i was old enough to go on the show. I think that you should make an America's Next Teen Top Model if you do i would love to try out

Hello Tyra, my name is marissa ocasio, Im 17 years old. I live in tampa fl, and I go to tampa bay tech high school. Everyday when I get home my mother and I sit down and watch your show. When I was younger I dreamed of becoming a model but after having to deal with my weight and skin condition I decided to change my mind and become a neonateal nurse. Keep up the good work because you give girls like me hope. Live life to the fullest!

heyyyyyy,tyra this is sue alla chaisson & i been wanting to model since i was 14 years old now in 15 bout to be 16 on april 26, im so happy. any ways now im in modeling school(barbizon) & we had a pre-fashion show & at first i was scared then when we had to do it i was excited i like the run way part .i dont get butterflies for nothing while im walking.we didnt take pictures yet.my myspace info is myspace/karmen2011.you can talk to me then. i need tips on modeling like the do's & dont's.& question i heard that you rare canceling the americas next top model show ,.....................please dont do that. thats my show.i get pointer from that show.

thanks tyra

LOVE,LIVE,LIFE. Bye

Hi Tyra! My name is Tina and I have always wanted to do modeling but I think that I am to SHORT for the modeling industry. I am 5'5 and to me that is short. Well I always wanted to write to you but never got the chance. I really love your show, You are doing a GREAT job Keep it up!!!!!!

Hi Tyra my name is Tyler Bailey im 14 and a girl who has a guys name lol. but i just wanted to say do you have any advise on how to become a modle like to get in the business.. my parents have spent a fortune on me to become a model and an actress..but just recently i went to a talent surch called inter national showcase acting modeling dancing and singing .. i tried out and i made it they wanted me to spend 5,000 dollars to go to miami and we coulnt come up with the money. i couldn't cry in front of my mom because i didn't want her to feel bad because we dont have the money.if you read this please contact me and give me some great advise.. p.s. one of my friends from school her sister is on americas next top model i was so amazed when i found out i cant remember her sisters name i think its jessica ..but i wish you good luck for your show and picking the americas next top model.

Hi Tyra my name is Tyler Bailey im 14 and a girl who has a guys name lol. im sure you get lots of fan mail about modeling and the i love you so much..lol. but i just wanted to say do you have any advise on how to become a modle like to get in the business.. my parents have spent a fortune on me to become a model and an actress..but just recently i went to a talent surch called inter national showcase acting modeling dancing and singing .. i tried out and i made it they wanted me to spend 5,000 dollars to go to miami and we coulnt come up with the money. i couldn't cry in front of my mom because i didn't want her to feel bad because we dont have the money.if you read this please contact me and give me some great advise.. p.s. one of my friends from school her sister is on americas next top model i was so amazed when i found out i cant remember her sisters name i think its jessica but she had black or brown hair and its blond now but i wish you good luck for your show and picking the americas next top model.

Hi Tyra, My name is CHYNA im from huntsville,Al.
AND IM YOUR BIGGEST FAN. YOU ARE TRULEY MY ROLE MODEL....!!!!!
All my life i wanted to become a model. Im 5'12 and im 18 years old. Im trying to get the basics of being a model.I watch your show and I can Just see myself up there doing that. Eventhough I've had chances to model with different agencies it didnt work out because they wanted tons of money. And i feel that I shouldnt have to pay to model to show my face or body everywhere. I wish I had the opportunity to model... that would change my life forever....Im going off to college soon in July. Im majoring in Fashion Designing. I was wondering if you had any advice for a young adult like myself going off to college on her own for the first time. I understand you left home at an early age,,how did you go day by day doing that. Missing your family not being able to see your friends anymore. What can i do to keep me motivated?? And follow my dreams???