Tyra Banks Article

Tyra Banks
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Tyra Banks, who became the first black model to appear solo on the cover of Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue this year, is making another erotic magazine appearance. Tyra has been chosen to grace the cover of Details magazine's annual "Sex" issue. So, does Banks mind being an object of men's desires? Not one bit. "I'm very happy to be a sex symbol. In the modeling industry there have been very few black commercial sex symbols, so I'm glad to break ground," she tells Details. Tyra believes that black women have been portrayed in a sexually negative light for quite a while. "Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?"