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Model Tyra Banks hits back at 'Porkchop' attacks


Former supermodel turned TV personality Tyra Banks, has recently hit back at critics who mocked her as overweight and dubbed her "America's Next Top Waddle" after recent weight gains. Banks, now 33, "retired" from the fashion catwalk in 2005 to pursue a career in television, where she became host of her self-entitled talk show. Not to mention, presenter of one of the top-rated and most watched reality TV shows of all-time, "America's Next Top Model". Banks, who is 5'10" tall, says she now weighs about 161 pounds, and was hurt by the comments.


"I still feel hot but every day is different. It's when I put on the jeans that used to fit a year ago and don't fit now and give me the muffin top, that's when I say 'Damn!'," she told People magazine in an interview for its Friday edition. "It was such a strange meanness and rejoicing that people had when thinking that was what my body looked like. It was really hurtful to me."


Recent unflattering pictures of Banks in a swimsuit on a beach in Australia have circulated on the Internet, with headlines such as "Tyra Porkchop" and "Tyra Banks is Fat." Banks has not tried to disguise the truth about her weight, or anything for that matter. She has unveiled numerous make-up and retouching secrets, as well as body sculpting undergarments and beauty enhancing "how to's". Banks openly admits she is about 30 pounds heavier now than in 1997 when she first made it as a swimsuit model. Banks said she was worried about the effect such reports would have on her fans.


"I get so much mail from young girls who say, 'I look up to you, you're not as skinny as everyone else, I think you're beautiful'," Banks said. "So when they say that my body is 'ugly' and 'disgusting', what does that make those girls feel like?"


Banks said she was criticized in her 20's for her curves and hips when she was a runway model. Instead of strict dieting, she launched herself as a swimwear and lingerie model. She has sought to highlight discrimination against overweight people, donning a padded "fat suit" and going undercover as a 350-pound woman in 2005 to show how obese people are treated by others. Earlier in the week, Banks said she was dedicating part of her talk show to setting the record straight about her size. Thursday, in a heartfelt, but assertive tone, Banks did just that. Closing her rebuttle with what will be known as one of daytime TV's my infamous quotes, " You [critics] can kiss my FAT ASS!" [rcZ]


Tyra Show Clip




News powerhouse, CNN, did a story on the Banks controversy.




Cycle 8 preview [for the ladiez, of course..] *whistlez*



Ok, maybe I watch. Sometimes.. Ok, weekly. Sue me! [rcZ]

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BLACK PEOPLE, PLEASE, READ & HEED. POIGNANT.


The sad thing about this article is that the essence of it is true. The
truth hurts. I just hope this sets more Black people in motion towards making real progress. Chris Rock, a Black comedian, even joked that Blacks don't read.


Help prove them wrong! Read and pass on.


Please Note:

For those of you who heard it, this is the article Dee Lee was reading
this morning on a New York radio station. For those of you who didn't hear it, this is very deep. This is a heavy piece and a Caucasian wrote it.


Dee Lee, CFP
Harvard Financial Educators


THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES. We can continue to reap profits from the Blacks without the effort of physical slavery Look at the current methods of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS.


Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once said, "The best way to hide something from Black people is to put it in a book." We now live in the Information Age. They have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of their fight for freedom, yet they refuse to read. There are numerous books readily available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com, not to mention their own Black Bookstores that provide solid blueprints to reach economic equality (which should have been their fight all along), but few read consistently, if at all.


GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolition of slavery, have had large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year they spent 10 billion dollars during Christmas, out of their 450 billion dollars in total yearly income (2.22%).


Any of us can use them as our target market, for any business venture we care to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they will buy into it. Being primarily a consumer people, they function totally by greed. They continually want more, with little thought for saving or investing.


They would rather buy some new sneaker than invest in starting a
business. Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU, And they still think that having a Mercedes, and a big house gives them "Status" or that they have achieved their Dream.


They are fools! The vast majority of their people are still in poverty
because their greed holds them back from collectively making better
communities.


With the help of BET, and the rest of their black media that often
broadcasts destructive images into their own homes, we will continue to see huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even jeered them, saying he doesn't want their money, and look at how the fools spend more with him than ever before!). They'll continue to show off to each other while we build solid communities with the profits from our businesses that we market to them.


SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the major ways we can continue to contain them. One of their own, Dubois said that there was an innate division in their culture. A "Talented Tenth" he called it. He was correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture that has achieved some "form" of success.


However, that segment missed the fullness of his work. They didn't read that the "Talented Tenth" was then responsible to aid The Non-Talented Ninety Percent in achieving a better life. Instead, that segment has created another class, a Buppie class that looks down on their people or aids them in a condescending manner.


They will never achieve what we have. Their selfishness does not allow them to be able to work together on any project or endeavor of substance. When they do get together, their selfishness lets their egos get in the way of their goal Their so-called help organizations seem to only want to promote their name without making any real change in their community.


They are content to sit in conferences and conventions in our hotels, and talk about what they will do, while they award plaques to the best speakers, not to the best doers. Is there no end to their selfishness? They steadfastly refuse to see that TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE (TEAM)


They do not understand that they are no better than each other because of what they own, as a matter of fact, most of those Buppies are but one or two pay checks away from poverty. All of which is under the control of our pens in our offices and our rooms.


Yes, we will continue to contain them as long as they refuse to re ad, continue to buy anything they want, and keep thinking they are "helping" their communities by paying dues to organizations which do little other than hold lavish conventions in our hotels. By the way, don't worry about any of them reading this letter, remember, 'THEY DON'T READ!!!!


(Prove them wrong. Please pass this on! After Reading it.. Oh, and the white lady above iz the lady that READ the article, not the one that WROTE it. So, don't get any ideaz, crazies! lolz.)

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