Tyra Banks Drops 4 Dress Sizes, Feels and Looks Great

Despite having retired from professional modeling to pursue a career in television, Tyra Banks has taken a lot of heat over the past couple of years for her weight. She’s always been a full-figured girl, as she puts it herself, but a few extra pounds have made her one of the most criticized women in the media. Not so anymore, as Tyra unveiled a much slimmer body during a photoshoot in New York, as the Daily Mail can confirm.

For starters, Tyra has never been ashamed of her body, so those looking to accuse her of hypocrisy for going on a diet when she claimed she was happy heavier would better think again before doing so. Secondly, the former model has always maintained she did feel better when she was slimmer – it’s just that she felt she should be the one to decide when to go on a diet and lose weight, and not do so because the media was giving her a hard time.

After two years of maintaining her weight constant with ice cream, bacon and bread, Tyra seems to have finally decided that a change in her appearance was in order. After taking out her extensions to reveal to the world her true self on the National Real Hair Day that she instated herself on September 8, the star seems to have started a healthier eating plan and a workout routine as well, from what pictures can reveal. Dressed in a body-hugging, gray dress and knee-high, leather boots, Tyra looks great now that she has dropped four dress sizes, the Mail says.

“5ft10in Tyra, who recently ballooned up to a size 14-16, has now shed the excess weight to go back down to the curvy but slim size 8 figure she became famous for. The stunning America’s Next Top Model host, and former Victoria Secret model, who says she was 11-and-a-half stone at her heaviest, showed off her slender and toned new figure on a recent photoshoot in New York City.” the publication writes on the latest appearance of the 35-year-old star.

“I feel more comfortable when I’m lighter – I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I work out, my arms look better. But, I’ve made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where’s the pain in that? If I was in pain, I would have dieted. The pain is not there – the pain is someone printing a picture of me and saying those [horrible] things.” Banks herself was saying when the backlash over her weight began, as a photo of her on vacation in a very unflattering swimsuit started making the rounds in the media.