A smart model is a good model.

I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots.

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn’t appreciate its beauty.

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and ‘Top Model’, but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

A smart model is a good model.

I don’t go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.

I’ve always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

I’m not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them.

I haven’t seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven’t seen anything. I don’t really care.

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

There’s always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.

It’s not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago – bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But I’m also interested in having my own baby, too.

I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.

I’m competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.

I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.

I loved planning ‘The Tyra Show’ more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I’m more excited being in a meeting than being on TV.

When I am full, I stop eating.

You can’t model for the rest of your life, so it is important to diversify your career.

I’m trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.

I have so many goals.

I look at myself and pick out the things I don’t like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can’t we just be the sexy American girl next door?

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You’re in one minute, out the next.

Black women don’t have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. Black men love big butts.

People always ask me if I’m going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.

I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.

I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.

I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became ‘hip.’

The runway symbolizes something in society that’s very intimidating to women.

I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don’t overeat.

Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.