Tyra Banks Weight Gain Fat Picture: Response to Critical Essay

http://ifitandhealthy.com/tyra-banks-weight-gain-fat-picture/ Tyra Banks: Weight Gain, Fat and a Picture

This article is called “You Call This Fat?” and it is found in People magazine from February 2007. Tyra Banks talks about gaining weight and how she dealt with the critics who called her fat. She tells a story of how she began her career doing runways for top designers. When she hit puberty, many designers would not hire her, because of her big hips. When the agency told Tyra and her mother to lose ten lbs., her mother decided to go back home and talk about Tyra’s next move and eat pizza. They decided to go to the commercial side and Tyra booked jobs in Sports Illustrated and Victoria Secret.

Good friend Heidi Klum said, “When she walked down the Victoria Secret runway, she was bigger than all the other girls, but if you asked anyone who their favorite was, it was always Tyra, because she’s curvy,” Klum says. “She hid the body parts she didn’t want to show, and she rocked it.”

Tyra was seen wearing a bathing suit and she looked like she gained about 20 pounds. Cellulites were seen on her thighs. The tabloids wrote a lot of bad things and exaggerated on how much weight she gained. But Tyra maintained her self-esteem and said she does not need to be a size two model to be a commercial model, and she is perfectly happy with the way she looks and continues eating anything she wants. In “The Tyra Banks Show,” Tyra helped teenage girls build a higher self-esteem, to be happy with the way they look, and help them with their eating disorders.

This article has to do with my final project, because my topic is how tabloid magazines print many pictures and write very mean comments based on celebrities’ weight gain, which harms young girls and women who look up to those celebrities.