Tyra Banks Kevin Mazur/Getty Photos for Victoria’s Secret
Tyra Banks slayed her runway return on the 2024 Victoria’s Secret Vogue Present, nevertheless it felt completely different than her earlier experiences.
“What was completely different is my boobies have been, like, 10 instances larger as a result of I used to be about 40-50 kilos heavier on this runway than after I retired,” Banks, 50, quipped throughout the Wednesday, October 16, episode of The Drew Barrymore Present. “So I used to be like, ‘Don’t fall out, don’t fall out.’”
Banks, previously a staple on the Victoria’s Secret catwalk starting within the ’90s, retired from the runway in 2005. She got here out of retirement for the Tuesday, October 15, present, the place she closed out the presentation.
“After I was strolling — and I used to be speaking to my man about it — I might usually stroll for myself,” Banks recalled to host Drew Barrymore. “After I was a mannequin I used to be strolling for myself and I retired nearly 20 years in the past, however after I was strolling on the Victoria’s Secret runway this time, I felt like all people was within me.”
She continued, “Fifty-year-old ladies, insecure ladies; I simply felt like there was extra. I take a look at the playback and I’m like, ‘Growth, growth, growth.’ I used to be stomping as a result of I felt like I used to be a vessel extra so than it’s not simply all about me. It was completely different.”
Banks had sashayed down the runway in a black bedazzled bra with an identical corset, leggings and an extended cape.
Final month, Banks teased through TikTok that it felt “cray-cray good” to be again strolling for the lingerie model.
Tyra Banks Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Photos for Victoria’s Secret
“I by no means thought that I might be again on this runway, to be sincere. I bear in mind — what was it, like, 19 years in the past — and I used to be like, ‘That is it,’” the supermodel mentioned in her September social media publish. “And I bear in mind all of the press, ‘Tyra’s … final … stroll.’ It was so over-the-top, and I used to be like, ‘I’m out.’”
Banks continued on the time, “My final stroll was this purple outfit and I had these medals throughout my waist. I had hair that was tremendous lengthy, loopy lengthy lashes and this scepter that mentioned ‘V’ in my hand, and I received to the tip of the runway and I kissed it after which I raised it and I began pumping, pumping, and in my head, I used to be like, ‘I’m out.’ However you pulled me again in.”
Tyra Banks is 50 and feeling good. The supermodel took to Instagram on Monday, December 4, to have a good time her milestone birthday, sharing makeup-free snaps of herself posing subsequent to a three-tier ice cream cake from her desserts enterprise, Smize and Dream Ice Cream. Within the images, Banks seemed radiant, exhibiting off her fresh-faced glow in […]
Banks has additionally been candid about her weight acquire, beforehand telling Us Weekly how she realized to embrace her physique.
“I believe quite a lot of it needed to do with my mom [Carolyn London]. You recognize, me being actually, actually skinny and awkward at one time and feeling sad about that,” Banks solely instructed Us in March 2020. “Her serving to me to get by means of that and saying that my complete price will not be this skinny physique and someday it should acquire some weight and you understand, every part’s gonna be OK.”
She added, “After which me gaining weight after which the style trade saying that was too large and her being there and saying, ‘They won’t outline you. You’ll not drop some weight for these folks. Let’s work out a special clientele. Let’s work out anyone that may admire who you might be and who you’re changing into.’”
