"Vogue" magazine recently made a pledge to avoid working with models who appear to have eating disorders.  Tyra Banks supports the decision!

As sexy as she was when she started modeling as a teenager, the industry has gotten to the point where Tyra would have been considered TOO FAT by today's standards.

She says, "I would've been considered too heavy.  In my time, the average model's size was a four or six.  Today you are expected to be a size zero. When I started out, I didn't know such a size even existed."

When Tyra was in her early 20s her agency gave her a list of designers who decided not to book her anymore because she'd gotten too "curvy".  Luckily,  her mother didn't let that get into her head.

Tyra says,  "As my mom wiped the tears from my face, she said, 'Tyra, you know what we're going to do about this?  We're going to go eat pizza.'

"We sat in a tiny pizzeria in Milan and strategized about how to turn my curves into a curveball.  In a way,  it was my decision not to starve myself that turned me into a supermodel, and later on, a businesswoman."