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
tyra looks like the average black woman with blond hair , contacts and bleached skin. sorry but i kknow she use bleach to make her skin light.
My cousin has glowy light skin, gray/blue eys and really long jet black hair…
Is she biracial? NO SHES NOT.
WHY?
She has a black father who has medium/dark skin,dark eyes and kinky hair, her mother (my moms 1rst cousin) has light brown eyes, wavy/straight black hair and light brown skin….
My mom has light glowy skin with brown eyes, she has freckles and long wavy hair
and my dad is very very dark skinned with dark eyes and kinky hair….
the result?
I have dark slanted eyes, long curly hair and light brown skin.
I married a biracial guy, I have two sons…one son has hazel/green eyes, straight/curly light brown hair and light brown skin…one son has dark eyes, light glowy skin and dark eyes and kinky hair…
MY SONS ARE BLACK….AND SO AM I AND MY MOTHER AND COUSIN ETC….
WE HAVE THE ONE DROP RULE IN AMERICA…
BLACK IS BLACK…
Why would someone want to be otherwise? NOT ME.
I’M PROUD OF BEING BLACK. BE PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE, DON’T BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF…YOUR HISTORY ETC…
I DON’T WANT TO BE ANYTHING OTHER THAN BLACK.
HaHa…go ahead shaye and all the other ppl tht aren’t blind and have a broader view and knowledge of how black ppl are not all on color or are suppose to look this way or that!! Ya’ll make me proud:)
no kitty i def. don’t agree….first of all, everyone is mixed. All black people are not dark skinned with dark eyes. That is why they are called ‘colored’. If u were to go into a black neighborhood u would find blacks of different complexions. I am a regular black person, caramel skinned. Just because I’m not really dark does that make me mixed w/white? I don’t think so. I would never claim anything but black. The only reason we have people of different shades now is because of the horny slave masters who raped the black slaves.
guys admit it its quite obvious she is mixed: some ppl on here say that black ppl can have green ect. eyes and be light skinned; but the real truth is REAL black ppl just dont have those features! even the africans u guys speak about who look just like tyra are mixed; nt because they live in africa means that they are PURE africans, they just have to be mixed to get that look.
ya’ll agree now???