- These go underneath your,
and then stick it to, perfect.
- [Tyra] Sheray, I might have some holes
in my hair 'cause of the light background.
We can check.
Alana, you're the time police.
- [Publicist] I'm the time police.
- These shoes are in my size
and I get to take them home, correct?
- [Interviewer] Yes, that's correct.
[laughs]
- I can stuff my foot in that six.
[tense music]
[static]
- [Woman Off Camera] Tyra Banks answers
increasingly personal questions
as the camera moves closer to her face.
[clapperboard clapping]
- Oh, that's...
I don't know what it is.
- Keeps saying a line.
- This?
Or here?
- Side.
- Yeah, that's because
the light is on the side.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
[beep]
- [Woman Off Camera] Family.
[clapperboard clapping]
- [Interviewer] Tyra,
how's your mom doing?
- Oh, my momma.
She's doing so, so good.
Finally doing things for herself.
- [Interviewer] And how's your son, York?
- He's great and just strong and
wonderful personality and speaks his mind.
- [Interviewer] How do you and York
spend quality time together?
- Oh, he loves to jump in momma's bed.
It's the most comfortable
place in the world for him.
- [Interviewer] What parts of your mother
do you see most in York?
- Sense of humor, craziness, crazy faces.
I guess that's me too, not just my mom.
[laughs]
- [Interviewer] Where did the concept of
"smize" come from originally?
- Well I wanted to tighten
the words smile with your eyes,
I would say it all the time.
And I was like, smile your
eyes, smile with your eyes.
After a while it was
like, I need a bit more.
So I shortened it to "smize".
But the first person to ever tell me
to smile with my eyes was Julie Campbell,
the editor of Sports
Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
- [Interviewer] Your mother once
described you as unstoppable.
What's one word you would
use to describe her?
- Just one?
- [Interviewer] Just one.
- I don't think that's possible.
- [Interviewer] Two words.
- I hate being generic,
and two words is generally wonderful,
loving, uh uh.
I'm not that type of interviewer
so I just feel like one word is boring.
Two words is a little less
boring but still boring.
My momma is crazy.
My momma's got so much personality
she is the fun grandmomma.
My momma tells me about the Drake song
before the Drake song is on the radio.
That's not one word.
- [Interviewer] What's the most
important thing you learned from her?
- Oh...
To cry in the bathroom, not at work.
- [Interviewer] How did
being a child of divorce
affect your view of romance?
- It made me realize that,
not realize, wrong word.
You want me to do it again or?
[beep]
I think being a child of divorce and
having a mom that had to be independent
showed me that love is want, and desire,
shared interests, and not need.
- [Interviewer] What never
fails to make you emotional?
- When my son tells me he loves me
and I didn't say it first.
- [Interviewer] What does looking to
the other side mean to you?
- It means when you are in the middle
of something so awful and
you cannot see through it,
it's just so bad,
imagine yourself in the future.
A day later, a month later, a year later.
'Cause it's not gonna be
as bad as it is today.
- [Interviewer] What do you see
as the most effective use of tough love?
- Tough love is effective and necessary
when someone's future is in danger
of stopping them from their greatness.
[beep]
How are we doing on time, Alana?
- [Alana] Sorry, we have time.
- Time to get to the next thing on time?
- [Alana] We're trying.
And if we don't, we won't.
It's good though, it's good.
- I needed that.
[beep]
- [Woman Off Camera] Business.
[clapperboard clapping]
- [Interviewer] You've been wearing
a lot of hats in your
career, how's that going?
- I have been wearing a lot of hats.
Talk-show hat, model hat,
teacher hat, entrepreneur hat.
And right now, the entrepreneur
hat is the largest.
It's covering all the other ones,
you can't see the other ones 'cause
they're hidden behind that
business owner and operator hat.
- [Interviewer] What's
the most important thing
to keep in mind when
making a new investment?
- When making a new investment,
you have to analyze risk.
However, the bigger the risk,
the bigger the reward.
- [Interviewer] What advice would you give
someone who's embarking on a
completely new career path?
- I would say, you study it.
You know it upside down, inside
out, backwards and forwards.
When you walk into that
room and ask for that job,
or when you start that whole new plan,
you better be the person that
knows it better than anybody else.
- [Interviewer] How do you
combat feeling out of place?
- I combat feeling out
of place with humor.
Hahaha, I'm uncomfortable
but people don't know.
They just think I'm laughing but
probably really uncomfortable too.
- [Interviewer] How did the
selfie change the world?
- The selfie changed the world by
sometimes having a dinner with friends and
they're not even looking at you,
they're so concerned with the 25 selfies
that they have taken and which one
are they gonna post to social media.
Oh, but they forgot what
we were talking about.
- [Interviewer] What is Modelland?
- Modelland is a place where everyone,
families, dads, moms, friends, cousins,
kids, teenagers can come and
live the ultimate fashion fantasy
where we break down beauty barriers
and give you the most amazing photos
that you've ever seen in your life.
The best shopping,
and the best immersive theater
where you are the star.
- [Interviewer] What's one of the
biggest lessons you've
learned from teaching?
- One of the biggest lessons
I've learned from teaching
is I didn't realize that
I had so much to share.
First year I did it, I was like,
what do I have to offer?
And after the end of the first class
I taught I said, a hell of a lot.
- [Interviewer] What's a piece of advice
you've given that you regret?
- He's a good guy, you
should stay with him.
No, trust me.
He's really great.
[beep]
[zipper opening]
Ah!
- I'll get it, I'll get it.
[beep]
- [Woman Off Camera] Modeling.
[clapperboard clapping]
- [Interviewer] You recently
came out of retirement.
How's that going?
- It's going hard.
I get offered a modeling job and I'm like,
do I take that or do I stay on site
at Modelland and make sure
things are getting done
to the way that I want them to get done?
So, it's not easy.
- [Interviewer] What is your
number one fashion rule?
- My number one fashion
rule is when I have heels,
I have to make sure that
there are some flats in my purse.
- [Interviewer] What's
the biggest difference
between the modeling industry when
you were coming up as opposed to now?
- When I was a model,
you could look like crap,
go to work, do the job,
go home, go to bed.
Today, we have to go
to work looking amazing
as if the photo shoot is already happening
then transform at the photo shoot
and capture yourself for social media
and the professional photography.
Then on your way home you have to selfie
and talk about how the shoot was amazing,
and then you have to have your dinner
and share that with the world,
and then you have to
tell the world goodnight.
And then the world has to
say how crappy you look
with a washed face as you go to bed.
- [Interviewer] What is the hardest thing
about standing your ground
in the modeling industry?
- In my day, retaliation.
- [Interviewer] What do you mean by that?
- Retaliation in the workplace meaning
you say something, you speak out,
you whistle-blow or you
say some things wrong
and they don't book you anymore.
- [Interviewer] When in your career
did you feel most vulnerable?
- I felt the most vulnerable when
my modeling agent told me that
if I did not lose 25 pounds,
I was pretty much done.
- [Interviewer] What's
the most important thing
to remember when being judged by others?
- There's different types of judgment.
There's judgment that's
there to make you better
and there's judgment to
make you feel like crap.
The first thing you gotta
do is decide which is which.
- [Interviewer] When are you least
comfortable in your own skin?
- In that cocktail party.
- [Interviewer] Why's that?
- Because I'm not
comfortable with small talk.
I like deep talk, I like
cameras pushing into my face
and asking me very
uncomfortable questions.
[beep]
This is super duper clever by the way.
Who came up with it?
[beep]
- [Woman Off Camera] Identity.
[clapperboard clapping]
- [Interviewer] Where is your happy place?
- Oh, my happy place
is in the movie theater
with a bucket full of popcorn
that has so much butter on it
the butter's dripping down my arm.
- [Interviewer] Who would you
cast to play you in a biopic?
- In a biopic I would cast the world.
I would take it out to everybody and say,
who looks like me, who can act like me?
And if that doesn't work, hi Rihanna.
- [Interviewer] What
keeps you up at night?
- What keeps me up at night...
So much.
Work, Modelland, making sure it's amazing.
Making sure it's successful,
making sure people are
wowed when they come.
- [Interviewer] What's
the biggest difference
between how people see you versus
how you see yourself?
- People think that I am fashion obsessed
and that I judge people that walk in rooms
even for job interviews by
their clothing and their style.
I could care less.
Do you demand excellence?
Are you amazing at what you do?
That's what I care about.
- [Interviewer] What is one thing
most people don't realize
about emotional abuse?
- People don't realize that
emotional abuse is as hard and
difficult and awful as physical abuse.
It's the scars that you cannot see.
- [Interviewer] And if
people could remember
one thing about you, what
would you want it to be?
- If people could remember
one thing about me
it would be that I want
to leave this world
more uniquely beautiful
than what it is today.
[beep]
- [Interviewer] Tyra, you're all set.
- I'm finished?
- [Interviewer] Finished.
Unless you want to one with extras.
- I want to do it 10 more time, nah.
- [Woman Off Camera] That was awesome.
That was crazily effective.
