TYRA BANKS was inspired to become one of the world's most successful models-turned-businesswomen by a fellow
supermogul:
Cindy Crawford. "I remember one day being backstage at a fashion show in Paris and in walks this woman, and she was tall like I was tall, and she had thick brown hair and I had thick brown ... weave hair, and she had all these people around her and she looked so in control. And then the crowd parted and it was Cindy Crawford," Banks revealed. "She was hosting MTV's
House of Style, and I was just like, 'Wooooaaaahhhh. She's not waiting for a phone to ring and for a designer to hire her, and I know she has a Revlon contract, and I hear that she has an office at Revlon.' Like, to me, her having an office in the Revlon building was like, 'I want an office in a building like that'."