"If I had lower self-esteem I would probably be starving myself right now," says Banks. Photo by: Andrew MacPherson
Tyra Banks Talks Back
The first sign that something was wrong came on a flight from Australia. As Tyra Banks boarded the plane (she'd been in Sydney doing a photo shoot for one of her TV shows), "the flight attendant goes like this," recalls Banks, acting out someone eyeing her from head to toe. "Then she says, 'Thank God, thank God! They're liars.' " Banks pauses, her eyes wide in disbelief. "I had no clue what the woman was talking...

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