Click to play videoSupermodel-turned-talk show host Tyra Banks has stirred quite a controversy after some tabloids splashed pictures showing her recent weight gain.
She is the angelic catwalker whose five-foot-ten-inch body has sold lingerie and bikinis for more than a decade. And she’s the one, who, for two years in a row, fronted Sports Illustrated’s hallowed swimsuit issue.
But last month, paparazzi in Australia snapped up less-than-flattering pictures of her in a one-piece swimsuit and the former cover girl found herself in the middle of a big fat scandal.
Tabloids ranging from Star Magazine to the National Enquirer printed the pictures and dubbed her ‘Tyra pork chops’ and ‘America's next top waddle’.
But Tyra, who currently hosts the television show America's Next Top Model and The Tyra Banks Show fired back with a cover story in this week's People magazine, in which she says, "It was such a strange meanness and rejoicing that people had when thinking that was what my body looked like.
She also accused tabloids of distorting her weight gain and this Thursday, on her own show, Tyra Banks sets the record straight.
“Today, I weigh 160 pounds so that is 10 pounds I gained, not 40,” she said.
“You know I eat on this show, I talk about food, how much I love eating. I gain weight and I lose weight, just like everybody else,” she added.
She says everybody else has to get used to seeing pictures of a formerly 126-pound supermodel happy with her healthy, normal weight.
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