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Tyra Banks Is Really Rich
Six Million Dollars Per Year

It's been reported the Tyra Banks receives an estimated six million dollars a year for her hit show. Banks' show America's Next Top Model continues to be a big ratings winner on UPN, and the model's salary accordingly got a big bump. The show is now franchised in countries like Sweden, Thailand and Russia. Tyra still banks the bucks with her Victoria's Secret contract, but her would-be singing career has stalled.

At the start of her modeling career Tyra  was turned down by four modeling agencies because they thought her face wasn't photogenic, she was finally signed by the Elite agency when she was 17.

So, instead of going to Loyola Marymount College, Tyra moved to Paris for a year and modeled for many of the big names in fashion, including Ralph Lauren and Chanel. She then moved back to the States and continued modeling, rocketing her way up through the ranks.

Soon Tyra began to diversify her activities, having a small part in the British television movie, Inferno as a supermodel, and then appearing on Will Smith's Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in a recurring supporting role.

Tyra's first real movie role came in John Singleton's Higher Learning. She played Omar Epps' track-running girlfriend and though it was a small role, critics were impressed by the intensity she brought to the screen.

She was definitely not just another supermodel playing at being an actress her performance was the real thing. She even did some distance-running training, in order to turn in a more believable performance. When the film came out, movie offers began to roll in, but Tyra chose not to act in just anything. Instead, she continued her meteoric rise in the modeling ranks, appearing on the covers of several magazines.

In fact, she was the first African-American woman ever to be featured on the covers of GQ magazine, the Victoria's Secret catalog, and the famous Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

She made People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful" list not once, but twice, and even wrote a revealing book about her life, Tyra's Beauty Inside & Out. She also had a few high-profile relationships, first with John Singleton and then with pop singer Seal. She is rumored to have gone out with Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and... Mark Messier? Strangely enough, yes.

Sick of the constant scrutiny inherent in celebrity relationships, she returned to her high school sweetheart, a law student; but that didn't protect her from the rumors, most recently linking her with LA Lakers Kobe Bryant, Rick Fox, and even Teresa Weatherspoon, who plays for New York in the WNBA. In interviews, however, Tyra often says that she is looking for a "Normal Guy", albeit a tall one -- she measures 5'11".

Before Tyra's retired from the runway in 2005 her  modeling rate per day was $30,000 per fashion show.

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