{"id":3162,"date":"2007-02-11T02:02:19","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T09:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/11\/tyra-banks-responds-to-claims-that-shes-too-fat\/"},"modified":"2007-02-11T02:02:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-11T09:02:19","slug":"tyra-banks-responds-to-claims-that-shes-too-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3162","title":{"rendered":"Tyra Banks Responds To Claims That She's Too Fat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Bean for making me watch this: The Tyra Banks Show in which she responded to the tabloids complaining that she’s gotten fat. I’m not sure I even knew who Tyra Banks was two weeks ago, but now I’m a fan.<\/p>\n

\"TyraBank’s opening speech — which she delivered in front of a monitor displaying the “unflattering” swimsuit photo the tabloids all published, wearing the same swimsuit she wore in the photo — is stunning, smart, and justifiably angry. (And also displays a degree of body confidence I simply cannot imagine possessing).<\/p>\n

Here’s a link to the youtube video of her speech<\/a>, and here’s a transcript of an interview <\/a>Banks gave to Larry King.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Bean for making me watch this: The Tyra Banks Show in which she responded to the tabloids complaining that she’s gotten fat. I’m not sure I even knew who Tyra Banks was two weeks ago, but now I’m … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}