Four months ago, Tyra Banks was in Australia shooting a segment for her hit show America’s Next Top Model, in which she was teaching contestants how to model bathing suits. The next thing she knew, a blurry, unflattering photograph of her in a one piece was splashed all over international tabloids and the web, along with some very nasty headlines. As bothered as she was by the photos, the former Victoria’s Secret model realized that the best strategy was to speak out, not run and hide.

“I want everyone to eat healthy foods,” she stresses.

“Sometimes the only thing in my kitchen when I got home at night was Tang and microwave popcorn, so that was my dinner,” she says. Today, she eats plenty of fresh fruits (her favorites: mango and papayas) and salads with chicken, shrimp, or other protein, and she snacks on crudités with onion dip.

She recently hired a part time chef to help her out in the evenings….

“He makes meals and leaves them for me when I get home,” she says. “I realized I needed to take better care of myself, and I knew this would be the best way to do that.”

“Whole months went by when I didn’t work out,” she admits. “Months! But then I’d get on a kick and become really motivated and do three miles every day on the treadmill for weeks.”

“Now I’m much more diligent,” she says. “I do treadmill intervals – I mix walking and running. Or I just run outside.”

Source  (Thanks Samantha!)

I think that her and Beyonce need to get stranded on an island - LOST style.

From CNN:

Tyra Banks, who has gained weight since her days strutting the catwalk, says she was upset when unflattering photos showing her in a one-piece bathing suit were mocked on the Internet.

“It was such a strange meanness and rejoicing that people had when thinking that was what my body looked like. It was really hurtful to me,” the 33-year-old talk-show host says in an interview in the February 5 issue of People magazine.

The photos show Banks on a beach during a recent trip to Sydney, Australia. They had popped up earlier this month on a celebrity gossip Web site with the not-so-nice headline: “Tyra Banks is Fat.”

Banks, who hosts the syndicated “The Tyra Banks Show” and the CW network’s “America’s Next Top Model,” tells the magazine she weighs 161 pounds and has fluctuated from 148 pounds to 162 pounds, depending on how well she’s taking care of herself, since retiring from modeling in 2005.

“I don’t want to sit in front of you and be soap-boxy and fake and say, ‘I love myself, I’m beautiful, it’s great,’ ” says Banks, who is 5 feet 10 inches tall. “I still feel hot, but every day is different. It’s when I put on the jeans that used to fit a year ago and don’t fit now and give me the muffin top, that’s when I say, ‘Damn!’ ”

In other words, yes, she has put on weight, though not nearly as much as recent tabloid stories have suggested.

Banks says “I’m not the healthiest eater” and isn’t required to “live up to that model standard anymore.”

“I’ve made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where’s the pain in that?” she says. “If I was in pain, I would have dieted. The pain is not there — the pain is someone printing a picture of me and saying those (horrible) things.”

I know you are sitting there right now, saying to yourself “Who has the best boobs in Hollywood.” Well, wait no more, my friend. According to In Touch magazine, the award goes to Scarlett Johansson.

Editors at In Touch magazine gave the actress’ “irresistible assets” top marks in the new best-breasts list, claiming Johansson has designer Isaac Mizrahi’s wandering hands to thank for her ranking on the Best Cleavage In Hollywood poll. The Lost in Translation star beat out competition from Jessica Simpson and hot Latina Salma Hayek on the breast list.

The full top 10 is:
1. Scarlett Johansson (movie is A Love Song For Bobby Long)
2. Jessica simpson
3. Salma Hayek
4. Halle Berry
5. Jessica Alba
6. Tyra Banks
7. Jennifer Love Hewitt
8. Rebecca Romijn
9. Lindsay Lohan - which I totally don’t get
10. Brittany Murphy