Essence March/April 2025 : Tyra Banks by Kenny Germé

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[thenewclassic]

Actually kinda surprised she wants to do it again, she has always loved the spotlight (or looked comfortable/was a natural there) but seemed kinda over it especially after all the backlash she's received online, at times she just says anything and it amounts to nothing though so we'll see.

There's some good pics, and not so good pics, like most her recent shoots, although I don't necessarily think she's at fault, she will likely always have it so could be interesting to have her active again if she is serious

 

[Fiercification]

Bless Tyra...these are not the worst images she's taken in the last decade or so of her career, but that travesty of a hairdo is killing any potential allure that cover portrait had. It would be nice to see an actually competent photographer and creative team work with her again.

TBH what I really want to see though is Tyra back on the runway as one of DM Casting's #throwbackthursday surprises. I hope Piergiorgio is reading the above post on Insta and likes it (I guess she already did VS so nothing's impossible). Plus she can balance out the overcompensation of Naomi on the runway in the last 15 years!

 

[Lola701]

I respect Tyra and everything she has accomplished in her career but I would say it: she was never a good model.
A beautiful woman, a great body and great business sense but never a good model.

Happy to see an Essence cover but Tyra…

 

[blueorchid]

What is going on with the makeup in the first cover? It looks... lopsided? I suppose it's the shadows.

 

[ivano]

There's a ridiculous youtuber than only post videos with reactions and criticims about ANTM. I know that the show wasn't perfect (far from that), but making videos against Tyra over and over? Get a life girl... without Tyra's program she doesn't have content for her channel. Cancelling Tyra won't make the world a better place.

About Tyra as a model, the other day I was curious about how many Vogue covers she earned, and I was surprised to only find a Vogue Spain issue, nothing else. Same happened with Valeria Mazza at the time. There's some well known models that barely achived the Vogue front. Any model's goal over decades.

 

[Malaya]

i never understood why ppl held double standards and put her on a really high pedestal. sure she's polarizing and over the top and i don't condone all the problematic BS she did on top model

but if naomi and other proven sh*theads in fashion can get away unscathed from everything.....

dunno how serious and committed she is to making a modelling comeback but this should be interesting