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
@White 18 here is a link with 100 percent blacks with blue eyes naturally
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Wow at all these stupid racist white trash losers trying to insinuate that she’s only beautiful because of her white blood. Fuck that and you, mayonnaise-eating bitches.
On the latest episode of ANTM she got her DNA tested and the results were:
79% African
14% British Isles
6% Native American
1%-unknown I guess, they didn’t say.
That sounds correct. Im glad to show these racists that not all lightskinned and light eyed blacks are half white.
Do you know what A-A means? It doesn’t mean you and no white blood it means you have Any Sub-Saharan African blood
@White18 Tyra Banks doesn’t have colored contact there is even a picture of her as a baby with grey eyes, as you get older your eyes do get darker it all depends and why are everyone is having this big disagreement if she is black or not or mix or whatever that she is. Only DNA can defend what you really are. Nowadays we are all a mix and so many women (all different kind of women or race) always change their hair colors, do plastic surgery etc…. lists goes on. What does it even matters to any of you, most of you act as if you are going to win an award on who is RIGHT when many of you sound like cry babies, shut up and go on with your own life. None of these famous people don’t care of what you say and think about them because they rich and famous. Seriously people they really don’t. smh lol