{"id":9237,"date":"2012-06-01T10:11:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T10:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=9237"},"modified":"2012-06-01T10:11:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T10:11:05","slug":"tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyra Banks On Being Too Fat To Be A Model"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tyra<\/a>
Tyra Banks - at 17 Banks was "too heavy" to be a model<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/br>
\nModels and booking agents<\/a> at Models Direct are still talking about Vogue<\/em>‘s ‘Health Initiative’ as the programme reaches its first month in action. The initiative is intended to encourage a healthier approach to body image within the modelling industry but has met with mixed reactions from models and celebrities.<\/p>\n

Cindy Crawford and Janice Dickinson are just two former models to have shown a distinct lack of enthusiasm about the proposed changes. Crawford was described in Jezebel last week as appearing ‘kinda ambivalent’ about the brand’s new modelling<\/a> rules, and, referring to them in a recent interview, Dickinson stated: \u201cI just don’t buy it.\u201d
\n<\/p>\n

Despite some obvious misgivings from certain quarters, one celebrity to show support for the initiative is supermodel and business woman Tyra Banks. In an open letter on The Daily Beast<\/em> she spoke out to other models urging them not to starve themselves in order to become a model<\/a> or remain in favour with designers who produce particularly tiny samples: \u201cWhen I started modeling, I used to see models who seemed unhealthy backstage at fashion shows. They appeared to be abusing their bodies to maintain a certain weight. These girls were booked over and over again for countless fashion shows and photo shoots. I\u2019m sure many of you today have witnessed this, or even live it. Now, real progress is finally on the horizon. Vogue<\/em> is stepping up, doing the right thing, and protecting that girl. Perhaps that girl is you!<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople get upset with you if you\u2019re a very thin model. What many don\u2019t know is that a certain sample size has been set by the industry, and you\u2019re doing everything in your power to keep working. At times, I feel there\u2019s an unspoken rule that says, \u201cthere\u2019s no such thing as being too thin, as long as you don\u2019t pass out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my early 20s I was a size four. But then I started to get curvy. My agency gave my mom a list of designers that didn\u2019t want to book me in their fashion shows anymore. In order to continue working, I would\u2019ve had to fight Mother Nature and get used to depriving myself of nutrition. As my mom wiped the tears from my face, she said, \u201cTyra, you know what we\u2019re going to do about this? We\u2019re going to go eat pizza.\u201d We sat in a tiny pizzeria in Milan and strategised about how to turn my curves into a curveball. In a way, it was my decision not to starve myself that turned me into a supermodel, and later on, a businesswoman.\u201d<\/p>\n

To emphasise her point Banks added: \u201cIf I was just starting to model at 17 in 2012, I could not have had the career that I did. I would\u2019ve been considered too heavy.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think about Vogue<\/em>‘s Health Initiative? Is it an empty gesture, or a welcome sign that the modelling<\/a> industry is changing once and for all?<\/p>\n

<\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite some obvious misgivings from certain quarters, one celebrity to show support for Vogue’s ‘Health Initiative’ is supermodel and business woman Tyra Banks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,7,162],"tags":[734,866,348,1956,609,142],"class_list":["post-9237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion","category-models","category-politics","tag-cindy-crawford","tag-janice-dickinson","tag-plus-size-models","tag-the-health-initiative","tag-tyra-banks","tag-vogue"],"yoast_head":"\nTyra Banks On Being Too Fat To Be A Model - Talent Management Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tyra Banks On Being Too Fat To Be A Model - Talent Management Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Despite some obvious misgivings from certain quarters, one celebrity to show support for Vogue's 'Health Initiative' is supermodel and business woman Tyra Banks.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Talent Management Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-06-01T10:11:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/assets.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2012\/06\/Tyra-Banks-too-fat-to-be-a-model-239x300.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Talent Management\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@talentmanagemnt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Talent Management\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Talent Management\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2861ed5cc2f2db36454d80204f82de09\"},\"headline\":\"Tyra Banks On Being Too Fat To Be A Model\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-06-01T10:11:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/\"},\"wordCount\":535,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/assets.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2012\/06\/Tyra-Banks-too-fat-to-be-a-model-239x300.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Cindy Crawford\",\"Janice Dickinson\",\"plus size models\",\"The Health Initiative\",\"Tyra Banks\",\"Vogue\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Fashion\",\"Models\",\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/\",\"name\":\"Tyra Banks On Being Too Fat To Be A Model - Talent Management Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/assets.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2012\/06\/Tyra-Banks-too-fat-to-be-a-model-239x300.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-06-01T10:11:05+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2861ed5cc2f2db36454d80204f82de09\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/assets.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2012\/06\/Tyra-Banks-too-fat-to-be-a-model-239x300.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/assets.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2012\/06\/Tyra-Banks-too-fat-to-be-a-model-239x300.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Tyra Banks On Being Too Fat To Be A Model\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Talent Management Blog\",\"description\":\"Your daily fix of the top fashion, modelling, beauty and entertainment news, views, trends, and tips\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2861ed5cc2f2db36454d80204f82de09\",\"name\":\"Talent Management\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/954811ecf579f7ab91ad0ddf0bfc2f82182eabc89a372b805df199f6fd9b1392?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/954811ecf579f7ab91ad0ddf0bfc2f82182eabc89a372b805df199f6fd9b1392?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Talent Management\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/talentmanagemnt\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/author\/wpadmin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Tyra Banks On Being Too Fat To Be A Model - Talent Management Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Tyra Banks On Being Too Fat To Be A Model - Talent Management Blog","og_description":"Despite some obvious misgivings from certain quarters, one celebrity to show support for Vogue's 'Health Initiative' is supermodel and business woman Tyra Banks.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/","og_site_name":"Talent Management Blog","article_published_time":"2012-06-01T10:11:05+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/assets.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2012\/06\/Tyra-Banks-too-fat-to-be-a-model-239x300.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Talent Management","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@talentmanagemnt","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Talent Management","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/"},"author":{"name":"Talent Management","@id":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2861ed5cc2f2db36454d80204f82de09"},"headline":"Tyra Banks On Being Too Fat To Be A Model","datePublished":"2012-06-01T10:11:05+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/"},"wordCount":535,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/assets.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2012\/06\/Tyra-Banks-too-fat-to-be-a-model-239x300.jpg","keywords":["Cindy Crawford","Janice Dickinson","plus size models","The Health Initiative","Tyra Banks","Vogue"],"articleSection":["Fashion","Models","Politics"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/","url":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/","name":"Tyra Banks On Being Too Fat To Be A Model - Talent Management Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/assets.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2012\/06\/Tyra-Banks-too-fat-to-be-a-model-239x300.jpg","datePublished":"2012-06-01T10:11:05+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2861ed5cc2f2db36454d80204f82de09"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/assets.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2012\/06\/Tyra-Banks-too-fat-to-be-a-model-239x300.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/assets.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2012\/06\/Tyra-Banks-too-fat-to-be-a-model-239x300.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tyra-banks-on-being-too-fat-to-be-a-model\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tyra Banks On Being Too Fat To Be A Model"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/","name":"Talent Management Blog","description":"Your daily fix of the top fashion, modelling, beauty and entertainment news, views, trends, and tips","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2861ed5cc2f2db36454d80204f82de09","name":"Talent Management","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/954811ecf579f7ab91ad0ddf0bfc2f82182eabc89a372b805df199f6fd9b1392?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/954811ecf579f7ab91ad0ddf0bfc2f82182eabc89a372b805df199f6fd9b1392?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Talent Management"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com","https:\/\/x.com\/talentmanagemnt"],"url":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/author\/wpadmin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9237"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9484,"href":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237\/revisions\/9484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}