Tyra Banks
Banks in 2011, kathclick/bigstock.com
Birth Name: Tyra Lynne Banks
Place of Birth: Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: December 4, 1973
Ethnicity: African-American
Tyra Banks is an American model, television personality, producer, businessperson, actress, author, and singer. She was the host of The Tyra Banks Show from 2005 to 2010, created, and presented, the show America’s Next Top Model, and appeared in the films Coyote Ugly and Halloween: Resurrection, among other works. She is also known as BanX.
Her parents, Caroline (London) and Donald Banks, are both African-American. A picture of Tyra with her parents can be seen here.
Tyra has a son with her former partner, Norwegian photographer Erik Asla.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show America’s Next Top Model (2014) stated that Tyra’s genetic ancestry is:
*79% African
*14% British
*6% Native American
One of Tyra’s great-great-grandfathers was named Walter Taylor.
Tyra’s maternal grandfather possibly was Ernest London (the son of Edward London and Ophelia Christopher). Ernest was born in Louisiana. Edward was the son of Charles London and Maria. Ophelia was the daughter of Antoine/Antony Christopher and Susan West Duncan/Champ.
Tyra’s maternal grandmother was Florine B. Coleman (the daughter of Fletcher Coleman and Lucinda/Loucindy Wisner/Hampton). Florine was born in Texas. Fletcher was born in Texas, the son of Ezekle “Zeke”/Ezekiel Coleman and Julia Beasley.
Sources: Genealogical information on Tyra Banks – https://blogs.ancestry.com
hey, listen ur parents can be dark or really light. just b/c shes not as dark and has hazel eyes dosent mean she isnt what she says she is. who cares what her eye color is, i mean my parents are hispanic and i have light eyes and hair and skin. but dont mean i aint hispanic, so get a life HATERS!!
“therefore anyone who has an ounce of black blood goes as black b/c of the physical features associated with the race.”
Oh? I have more than an ounce of ‘black blood’, and no one considers me black unless they are a moron on the internet who is afraid of blue eyes becoming extinct…naturally, I just look spanish or brazillian. Whatev. Morons on the interweb.
um…get a clue i got one want it? she does wear contacts you moron…in her early pictures…she has dark borwn eyes, now, in her recent ones, she has green ones
No seriously, you need to get a clue and maybe go back and look at a few more of her younger pictures and obviously you will see her eyes are green.
http://news.makemeheal.com/images/tyra-banks-nose-job.jpg
Maybe the lighting in the picture you may or may have not saw was off and her eyes appeared slightly darker, which happens.
Actually i am American and i am pure Black my mother was born in africa and so was my dad and i have long hair and hazel eyes it doesn’t mean she’s mixed maybe she is pure African I am African -American and Proud I AM BLACK PURE BLACK!!
I have aghanian friend who both her, her father and uncle have hazel eyes and both her parents are ghanian born and raised that is that mean they’re mixed? Me thinks no so cut that bs about her phenotype is different from pure Africans. Thses celebs mostly look lighter than they are bcs of the camera lighting and I know plenty of pure Africans who light even lighter than Tyra myself included and it doen’t make me any less African than I am. It really irks me when people think to be ‘pure African’ you have to be black like a kettle’s bottom NO!!
Tyra’s eyes are naturally green she’s shown baby pics of herself with those same green eyes and unless you are dumb and live under a rock, you should know that black people are capable of having green, blue, hazel, or gray eyes without them being contacts.