Tyra Banks for September Harper's Bazaar

That's right...you read correctly. Miss Tyra Banks will grace the cover of Harper's Bazaar's September issue. Now this is a HUGE deal to me because as we all know the September issue is always THE biggest issue (more ads and more fashion/beauty filled pages..but mostly more ads) and to have a sista on the cover is MAJOR to me.


but Tyra...is well...Tyra

This girl's personality is something alright. There are times when I wanna hug her out of sheer admiration and then there are times I wanna hug her because she said/did something so far fetched you can't do nothing but hug her. My friend calls her "extra".

Well here is Tyra in all her "extraness"


If you haven't caught on, she is supposed to be Michelle Obama in these pages. I don't know how I feel about this though because Michelle is someone I hold in highest regards as a woman of color, a wife, a mother, and a public figure. Not to mention she's got crazy good style. This is almost kind of upsetting but I don't know why. Maybe it's that damn smile.


For a former model, you'd think the woman would change it up a bit.

From the mag:

She explains why Michelle Obama is so important that she had to dress up as her for the photo shoot.

“With Barack Obama, his becoming president is them becoming president because Michelle was there from the beginning. Without Michelle, he wouldn’t be there … Michelle Obama, you’re one hot mama.”

On the first time she met Barack Obama with Kimora Lee Simmons.

"My friend Kimora Lee Simmons and I were walking around the ball. We had on these big Cinderella dresses — hardly anyone wore white tie, but we both did — and then we see Senator Obama. He goes, 'Hi, ladies,' and I told him, 'I want to congratulate you on that speech. It was gorgeous.' At the time, there was just a hint of him running for president. But then Kimora starts talking crazy, just totally embarrassing me. She walks away, and I'm like, 'Senator Obama, I have to apologize for my friend. She's almost like family, I've known her since I was 17 years old, and with family, you love them but sometimes you want to say that you're not related to them.' And he said, 'What are you talking about? You don't think that I could be down and talk crazy like that? You think politicians are all stiff and can't relate? Come on, girl.'"

Oooh, she offers a blind item on a retiring supermodel!

“I told her to make sure she had a plan. She looked like I slapped her in the face. She was like, ‘Want do you mean? I love modeling. I will always model!’ … But you need to treat yourself like an athlete and know that it is not going to happen. I mean, what are you gonna do — commentate on ESPN? … And here comes Gisele doing the Clydesdale clomp in Stella McCartney.”

If she were First Lady, she would have a hair conundrum.

“…my question isn’t to flip or not to flip. Mine would be to weave or not to weave.”

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