My Letter to Tyra
Dear Tyra Banks and the Managing Staff of Bankable Productions:
This letter is regarding the March 21, 2007 episode of America’s
Next Top Model wherein all of the competing models were asked to pose
for photographs as “crime scene victims”. The show’s homepage,
maintained by The CW, described the photo shoot like this: “The next
day the girls met Jay for their photo shoot, where they were each
assigned a crime scene victim to portray. Felicia was confused on how
she was supposed to breathe life into her pose of “decapitation by
model.” While both Jay and photographer and guest judge Mike Rosenthal
tried to get her to bring more life to her face, she just wasn’t
finding the light in her eyes. “It looks like you’re taking a nap. We
need you to look like you were brutally killed,” guest judge Mike
Rosenthal said.”
My 17-year-old sister watches ANTM. I thought it was shallow,
sexist, and anti-intellectual before, but now I know that the show
actually glorifies violence against women. I am appalled that this
episode was even made, specifically by a production company whose
mission claims that they are, “currently developing material with an
eye toward female driven characters with a sense of empowerment. This
empowerment will come from a journey that embodies a whimsical yet
sophisticated sensibility, blurring racial and social stereotypes and
storylines.” (Excerpt taken directly from http://www.tyrabanks.com/)
What a disgusting, perverse joke. If you’re going to sexualize
and glamorize violence against women, do not masquerade as a company
that promotes “empowerment”. Who the hell are you trying to empower?
The lifeless, made-up models that are told to play dead? The women and
girls in your viewing audience who now believe that committing
suicide, being pushed down a flight of stairs, or dying in some other
gruesome fashion have an attractive flair and romance to them? Oh, I
know, it must be the men who want this image to be maintained so that
they can find more pliable, mentally confused women to abuse, rape,
and murder.
Congratulations to you Tyra, as well as your stellar cast and
crew. You’ve actually managed to inflict an impressive amount of
damage on the minds and opinions of an emerging generation of young
women. If you have any genuine desire to educate your viewers rather
than indoctrinate them, you’ll admit to the public what your company
truly stands for: self-absorption, the promotion of destructive social
stereotypes, and the degradation of women everywhere.
Sincerely,
[MY MAGICAL NAME]
________________________________
This letter was inspired by information I found at Women’s Space, where the information was posted from Rachel’s Tavern. I encourage you to look at the photos from the shoot mentioned above and, if you are displeased, write your own letter. Feel free to use mine. You and anyone else can view the photos in a slideshow Beansa has made available on YouTube.
Here are some of the appropriate e-mail addresses and contact information:
Bankable Productions, the company owned by Tyra Banks which produces the show - inquiries@bankableprods.com
The CW - feedback@cwtv.com
Tyra Banks’ “Fan Mail” - tyrabanks@studiofanmail.com
Cover Girl cosmetics, a prominent ANTM sponsor - Go to http://www.covergirl.com/. Click the “Ask CG” section at the bottom of the page. Click the “E-mail Us” tab on the next page. This will bring you to a form where you can enter the appropriate information.
Proctor & Gamble, parent company of Cover Girl cosmetics - Go to http://www.pg.com/. Click “Contact Us”, a small grey colored link at the bottom of the page. Under the “Contact Us” bullet point on the next page, there will be a link instructing you to click there to e-mail them. This will bring you to an e-mail form where you can enter the appropriate information.
Elle Magazine, another prominent ANTM sponsor - http://www.elle.com/aboutus/7939/contact-elle.html
Rachel said,
March 24, 2007 @ 1:55 pm
Hey gingermiss that’s really good.
Beansa said,
March 24, 2007 @ 6:30 pm
I’m using your letter! Thanks, you said everything so eloquently.
gingermiss said,
March 24, 2007 @ 6:51 pm
Hey, please do, and if you know anyone else who may want to use it feel free to give it over to them.
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beansa said,
March 26, 2007 @ 1:06 am
Inspired by you, and Womensspace and Rachel’s Tavern, I made this slideshow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCIl3Vvorhs
gingermiss said,
March 26, 2007 @ 3:01 am
Nice job, beansa! The list of contact information at the end is fabulous. There was just one thing I noticed, and it’s not a big deal: the word “juvenile” is spelled wrong.
beansa said,
March 26, 2007 @ 3:20 am
Jeesh. Would you believe I used to be a copy editor, for pay and everything. Thanks for catching that, I fixed it and am uploading the update now.
beansa said,
March 26, 2007 @ 9:48 am
Ok, I fixed it, here’s the new link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnh4UGxq5Gs
Thanks!
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Angel Dotson said,
March 31, 2007 @ 3:22 pm
hey wat’s up tyra im just wondering when ur going to do a americas next top men’s modeling cycle, im really interested in doing it and I know that i will win for fact LOL!!! but please contact me back im all the way down in boaring syracuse n,y and i just want to be on your top model mens cycle show so bad, not only to get away but i really do like modeling, let me give you a little descrition of me im 17 years old. im 5′8 and i weigh about 169 yeah im a little stocky but i have a great face nice green eyes, long hair, light skinned, and big juicy lips LOL, and im real laid back and cool I just like to have fun, and I also love my mom and dad alot and my bro and sis, they mean everthing to me, my mom is just like yours almost she tells me to bad if nobody like her your body is I like it the way you are and she makes me feel good about my self. please read this and send back thanks.
gingermiss said,
April 1, 2007 @ 11:41 pm
Well that’s confusing.
sffcorgi said,
April 10, 2007 @ 10:21 pm
Thank you for all your research! You, Beansa, Sparkle and Rachel are getting linked on my LiveJournal now, too.
gingermiss said,
April 11, 2007 @ 12:33 am
No prob. In the age of the internet, it’s breezily easy to find such information. Thank you for taking an interest!
BiologyGoth said,
April 11, 2007 @ 9:26 am
I wrote a letter to the e-mails you listed, and added my own angle that this is basically snuff porn. As a woman photographer, I know that shoots like that are the kind of thing aspiring models are warned about! Ewwww! And I cc’d the mail to the Women’s Center on campus.
gingermiss said,
April 11, 2007 @ 3:52 pm
That’s wonderful, BiologyGoth. We need more women photographers like yourself who are conscious of these themes.
Nanette Meyer said,
May 7, 2007 @ 11:12 pm
Hi Tyra
I am from South Africa and i am of course a big fan of your’s.
This is maybe a 1 out of 10 billion chance that you can help me.
I am currently going in deep depression and i urgently need your help.
I am 26 and have 2 boys and a wonderfull husband. We have a wonderfull relationship that started sins school, he even stayd with me wen I was raped by my sisters husband when i was 17. But now i want to do something for him back. After all that i have been thro my health and appearance is very bad. And i haven’t got the money to fix me up for him. I am a housewife because i am to in love with my 2 little boys 2 leave them. The oldest 1 is 5 and the other 1 is 1 jear. We ain’t rich or got a big house and the grandest car, but we are billionairs when it comes to love. I don’t know if you are going to read this letter, but if any one can make an exeption, or if you here my desprate cry for help, even if you know of someone that can help me. I ask truly, badly, deeply. I need to have my teeth done, children hassled me sins kindergarden, i need my breast done it looks like a 14 year old girls boobs, even after 2 children. I need my bud to be done, affter 2 boys, its a nightmare. I thouhgt this trew very carefully and know that this change would be very good for me and my husband. We have been threw enough. If you want a hell of a life story just ask me. My parents were divorced when i was 3, me and my sister grew up with my granparents. I met my husband Jacques in highschool, i was raped by my sisters husband when i was 17, so me and my sister grew apart. I was judged as the guilty one in the family. Me and my husband had a horible wedding cause no one actually wanted us to get married. It just goes on and on. So pretty please if you can help me, you really would save my life. And i would be rescued for once in my life.
Thank You Tyra
Nanette Meyer South Africa 082 567 7657
nanettemeyer@polka.co.za
evelyn wright said,
May 11, 2007 @ 2:39 am
Hi Tyra
I’m a senior citizen who admire and appreciate the work you’re doing on all levels. I have a suggestion that I find will add to your beauty and and my continued endearment of the life you’ve led as a young woman with acquired morals. Please desist from all/most of the unnecessary profanity as of late. You and your guests and audience can be understood perfectly without it. You can get your point across without the kiss my a–, b’s etc. Please, because I as an older person truly love you and your show, but if this continues, I will surely give up or you and show as this truly, especially coming from the “OLD SCHOOL”embarrasses me. I know that the morally of today is totally different from yesterday, but there are young girls watching and imitating this type of speech and attitudes. I have young granddaughters who all want to emulate this type of behavior when things do not go their way.
thank you,
gingermiss said,
May 11, 2007 @ 3:55 am
Ok, that last letter was vaguely on topic. I have to wonder, though…
Does Tyra Banks feverishly read my blog and I was just blissfully unaware of this?
evelyn wright said,
May 12, 2007 @ 2:53 am
please respond
lorettagantt said,
May 12, 2007 @ 9:09 pm
ineed to be on tyra show
charlie said,
May 19, 2007 @ 12:06 am
HI TYRA, MY NAME IS DEBORAH IM A 48 YR. OLD WOMEN WHO ENJOYS WATCHING YOUR SHOW. I THINK YOU DO SO MANY GOOD THINGS FOR YOUNG LADIES IN THESE TIMES WHERE WE HAVE THE PARIS,S AND NICOLE,S AND NAOMI,S ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS WHO ARE OUT THERE IN THE PUBLIC EYE . I HAVE WATCHED YOU BRING A GOODNESS AND SELF RESPECT TO T.V. THE GOOD LORD KNOWS WE NEED IT. IM WRITING YOU ABOUT TEEN DRINKING AND DRIVING. ITS SOMETHING I KNOW ALL TO WELL ABOUT. MY SON TURNED 18 JAN. 19 2001. HE WAS KILLED MARCH 29 2001. AS HIM BEING MY ONLY CHILD I ALWAYS KEEPED HIM CLOSE. WHEN THIS HAPPEND I DID NOT THINK I WOULD MAKE IT THRU IT. YEA IM STILL HERE HA HA . MY POINT IS PLEASE THINK ABOUT A SHOW INVOLVING THIS SUB. I KNOW YOU COULD REACH MILLIONS OF YOUNG PEOPLE, ALONG WITH THERE PARENTS. IF ONLY TO SAVE ONE LIFE ITS WORTH IT…..I DRIVE BY THE PLACE WHERE MY SON WAS KILLED EVERY DAY, NOT BECAUSE I WANT TO BUT BECAUSE IT WAS NOT EVEN A HALF MILE FROM OUR HOME. EVERY TIME I DRIVE BY AND SEE THAT GARD RAIL I WISH I COULD HELP TEENS RELIZE THAT THEY ARE NOT INVINSIBLE. TH AT IT CAN HAPPEN TO THEM. IM NOT SAYING MY SON WAS PERFECT THERE WERE MANY TIMES WHEN I GOT A CALL AT 12 P.M. FOR A RIDE HOME BECAUSE THE PERSON HE WAS WITH WAS DRINKING. BUT AS A MOTHER WHEN YOU MAKE THAT PACT WITH YOUR CHILD YOU GO PICK THEM UP . JOHN WAS KILLED AT 105IN THE AFTERNOON ON HIS WAY TO GET A HAIR CUT… THE CALL I GOT THAT DAY BROKE MY HEART AND IN A LOT OF WAYS ILL NEVER BE THE SAME. THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TYRA I KNOW YOU MAKE YOUR MOM PROUD. DEBORA WINT…..
connee said,
May 19, 2007 @ 10:13 pm
Hi Tyra, I watch your show whenever I can. (depending on my work schedule) I want to say I LOVE your show! It’s great to see a host who has feelings and really gets the anwers we’re all looking for. You’ve allowed me to look inside my heart and find the answers that I need to know for myself. I have 2 grown sons, both in the military and miss them dearly. My oldest son has not communicated with me in the last 5 years, issues, and I have tried very hard to get to him but, with very little luck. Just recently his wife has been emailing me but, she always manages to get a “dig” in and, I have stopped responding to the emails. I said I was tired of having to answer for myself. We can’t undo the past but, we can move on and that is what I plan to do, with or without them…. I love them but, enough is enough! We cannot dwell on the past and that is what I feel they are both doing. Words have been said by both parties but, as I’ve said it’s time to bury the hatchet and start new. I just want to be a family again. My younger son is caught in the middle and is ready to disown us all. I don’t want to lose him, too. So, I just sit here and wait and hopefully, they will come around. Thank you for letting me vent. All I have is my boys and that is all I live for each day. Again, keep up the GREAT work and I promise to tune in as often as I can. Oh, and I just wanted you to know that I am working at Victoria’s Secret here in my city and love it! Have a great bunch of girls to work with. Love and happiness, Connee
Renee Jennings said,
June 2, 2007 @ 5:41 pm
Dear Tyra,
Is it possible that you could do show on legal home base business if there are any. I’ve been wanting to try a home base business but do not know who to trust. I’ve lost monies in trying to find one to do. The internet is do full of home base business with lots of promises that are no good. Please if you can please have a show that can help us that want to do home base business.
Thankyou,
Renee Jennings
BRENDA MC EADY said,
June 18, 2007 @ 2:30 pm
Hello Tyra:
I guess this is the time to find out if you really do read all of your e-mails. If so, I really do not see how you have the time or the energy. Anyway, I was hoping that I was one of the first 50 to sign-up for your newsletter to receive a sample pkg of the “Goodbye Cellulite.” To date, no such luck. Needless to say, I continue to watch your show. I love that you have chosen to give-back to the less fortunate…God is watching.
I missed the May 30, 2007 segment on “I’ve always wanted to…” I could the “two minute” piece on-line. I am also a Systemic Lupus survivor since 1995, when the medical society was ready to give up on me. Thanks to the Specialist at the Jacksonville, Mayo Clinic, and God, I am still here…maybe I should reverse that and say, “God” first. When I was first diagnosed, some less knowledgable public would make uneducated statements, such as, “Oh, you have that Black Woman’s Disease.” As you and others are aware, Systemic Lupus does not discriminate against race, or sex. Thanks for interviewing the Father and Daughter (Jerry and Catherine) where neither are “Black” and the father is the one with Lupus. Hopefully, your short informative interview educated the less knowledgeable.
BMC
BRENDA MC EADY said,
June 18, 2007 @ 2:31 pm
Hello Tyra:
I guess this is the time to find out if you really do read all of your e-mails. If so, I really do not see how you have the time or the energy. Anyway, I was hoping that I was one of the first 50 to sign-up for your newsletter to receive a sample pkg of the “Goodbye Cellulite.” To date, no such luck. Needless to say, I continue to watch your show. I love that you have chosen to give-back to the less fortunate…God is watching.
I missed the May 30, 2007 segment on “I’ve always wanted to…” I caught the “two minute” piece on-line. I am also a Systemic Lupus survivor since 1995, when the medical society was ready to give up on me. Thanks to the Specialist at the Jacksonville, Mayo Clinic, and God, I am still here…maybe I should reverse that and say, “God” first. When I was first diagnosed, some less knowledgable public would make uneducated statements, such as, “Oh, you have that Black Woman’s Disease.” As you and others are aware, Systemic Lupus does not discriminate against race, or sex. Thanks for interviewing the Father and Daughter (Jerry and Catherine) where neither are “Black” and the father is the one with Lupus. Hopefully, your short informative interview educated the less knowledgeable.
BMC
BRENDA MC EADY said,
June 18, 2007 @ 2:34 pm
Okay, now. I have clicked on “submit comment” and my comment is not going through. What’s up with this?
BRENDA MC EADY said,
June 18, 2007 @ 2:36 pm
Okay, now. I have clicked on “submit comment” and my comment is not going through. What’s up with this?
I guess that I am not computer literate enough to understand what it is that I must do next. I guess this means that you won’t receive this comment.
Oh well, I tried.
E. K.(Kitty) Glendower said,
June 21, 2007 @ 2:48 am
Are you getting Tyra Spam? What is going on here?
Nea Rose Rodriguez said,
June 21, 2007 @ 11:07 am
How do I contact tyra??
I am a 22 year old female who has been in love with the same boy for about 12 years.
I met him in the 6th grade and even though we went to different junior highs and high schools we fell in love all over again when fate brought us back together at a random college orientation.
3 years into our relationship he has yet to see me naked. For whatever reason I was cursed with some kind of skin disorder where I don’t heal after being cut, or after having razor burn, ingrown hairs, and pimples. I have scars ALL over my body, and especially in the pubic area, and under arms.
I don’t wear skirts, I don’t wear short sleeved shirts (because my arm pits are not beautiful), I don’t wear shirts that show my midriff (because not only do I have hideous scars, but I am unfortunately hairier than most woman, and it could be due to a condition called hirsutism).
My boyfriend begs to see me in sexy clothes, or even just naked while the lights are on, but I just can’t. I feel like he may leave me because of my insecurities, and I don’t know what I would do if that ever happened.
I love him soo much, and I want to feel like a woman, not a beast.
I’m not even an ugly person. I’m half puerto rican, half jamaican. I’m 5′8, and 112 pounds. People tell me all the time that I should be a model. But I won’t do that because of my body. Models have to pose in bathing suits, and they have to change in front of people. I can’t do either of those things.
It’s really a depressing situation to be in. One of the things that makes a woman sexy is her body, and loving her body. I want to love my body, and show my body to my bf. I want to wear bikini’s in the summer, and I want to wear skirts when it’s hot, or just when I’m feeling sexy. But I never do, and I fear that I never will.
PLEASE…. help me. Or lead me in the right direction so that I may find a way to fix my scarred body. I could do it if I were Paris Hilton… but I’m not rich, and I would never have the kind of money I would need to pay for all the procedures I would need to get done.
I have 8 siblings, and my mom has raised all of us alone since I was 14. My dad left when I was 14 to be with some woman he met on the internet. My sisters and I knew why he left, but he told my mom he left because he wanted to move back to NY to be with his family.
Not having the double income of a mother and a father made it hard being a teenager in high school. Those kids are harsh, and they’ll make it known that you’re poor, or that you don’t wear designer clothes. I was kicked out of the house when I was 18 because my mom couldn’t take care of me anymore, and the same thing happened to my 2 older sisters. We had to live with friends, and get jobs just to get by. We never had cars so we walked everywhere which isn’t bad, but when it’s the middle of summer and you have to walk 2 miles to work everyday, it kind of takes its toll on you.
I love my mom, and I don’t hold a grudge against her for doing what she did. She’s still struggling with 5 of my siblings still at home, and still being highly dependent on her.
I’m not trying to give anyone a sob story, because in all honesty my life is wonderful, and I don’t know what I would do without the people I love. My family and my boyfriend are all I need. I’m just trying to explain why I don’t have the money to get these things done on my own (the surgical procedures to fix my body).
I just wish I could be the beautiful girl my bf sees, and I wish I could be a model so I could make my mom proud (she’s always telling me to model, because she thinks me and my sisters are beautiful) and so that I can buy my mom a house, and a big van to transport all the kids in. That’s what she’s always wanted, but it hasn’t been easy for her being as it is that she is the mom and the dad and the best friend to me and my other siblings.
I don’t know what else to say.
Thank you for listening.
Sincerely Nea Rose
gingermiss said,
June 22, 2007 @ 7:01 am
Yes, I am, and it’s been going on for a while now however strange that may be… that or Tyra Banks has propagated my blog for her own nefarious purposes.
SHAKIA said,
June 28, 2007 @ 5:01 am
HI TYRA….MY NAME IS SHAKIA HARRIS. I AM 12 YEARS OLD. ONE DAY I WOULD LOVE TO BE AN ARTIST. THE PROBLEM IS THAT I DONT KNOW HOW TO GET THE WORD OUT, OR HOW TO GET PEOPLE TO SEE THE THINGS THAT I DRAW.
Debbie Johnson said,
July 5, 2007 @ 7:59 am
Dearest Tyra, I”m a 47 Year old mother, asking desperatly for yor help. I have 3 children, 8 grandchildren, I have 2 sons, 1 daughter. The situation is my 27 yr. old daughter, she has very low self esteem it started when she was 13 she was raped this man took her diginity,virginity, and almost her life. she became a cutter hated herself and always felt like wa failure. We went through counceling and nothing seemed to help. I became very overprotective over her, I basically imprisioned her because of the fear of her wellbeing. Tyra I have always tried the very best to protect my family, but I felt like a failure to my only little girl. The person that raped her got away with it. There was no sign of justice for here. Tyra I got my family out of the city, and moved to the country. I have helped alot of kids since then some girls, some boys, whe 8 extra children in our home living with us at one time, struggling on my husbands salary, my disability, with no help from the outside. Kids didn’t have homes so I took them in hoping that I could help another child where I felt I didn’t for my own child. My daughter’s name is Jackie she’s beautiful but to her she feels different. Bad things happened once their couldn’t be anything else that could tear her down (wrong) I started to let her have a little freedom terrified of letting her go but I was punishing her for something she was not guilty of. I let her go to the mall with one of her friends with the friends mother telling me (promising) that she would be their with them, which was a lie. Again Tyra the evilness grabbed her again at 15 she was kidnapped took to another county beaten and raped and was going to die because of the friend she was with stole money from drug dealers that was here from another state. The man that raped her was also the man who saved her life. He got my daughter and the other girl out when the head leader had his head turn, he told them to run, thank God they got away. my daughter is white, the men on both were black. My daughters life has been saved by God and the man she fell in love with whom is black I love him so much, he has always been their for me, my sons, and most important my daughter. MY heart felt son became my son-in-law. I have never raised my children to be racial, we are all one in God’s eyes, our souls don’t have a color. Since their marriage 5yrs ago she has lost 3 babies and has 2 beautiful live births little girls 3, and 1. She still has very low self esteem and her daughters have picked up on it. When she was pregnant her teeth started going bad, no insurance, no money, to get them fixed. Tyra I’ve done everything in my power to help as much as I can. MY daughter and husband, 2 kids lived me for 4yrs. His salary wasn’t enough to get their own place. I felt like I was enableing them to not try hard enough to try on their own. I had no choice but to ask them to find a place they decided to stay at a motel only to last now 8 months and still there. Tyra I never would have made them leave but I don’t live in a huge place a doublewide home. My mother developed breast cancer and needed to be taken care of her, my sister moved in her at the time not having a place because she is on the waiting list for a liver transplant. My son has joint custody of his son whom has given me more strength than any 9yr. could he lives with me also. My husband has stood by me 100%. My heart hurts so bad , my health isn’t the best, and their is nothing else I can do but leave it in God’s hands. Maybe through you. I’m not asking anything from me Tyra, My daughter has no home. no car,and in bad need for dental work, their is so much I just can’t explain it all. Tyra please help to fulfill my dreams for my daughter I know that you help do make overs. So if you can feel it within your heart please help me to get my beautiful little girl to walk with her head up high which has been dropped down for so long, let the tears stop for her and her family those babies . sincerely, Debbie Johnson
Lisa Reed said,
July 15, 2007 @ 5:43 am
Tyra you are a wonderful person,you are a blessing for many people who are in need for help. I am emailing you to tell you my situation. I am in a desprate need for help. My story is very different from others. I have 2 kids. I have not seen my kids in 5 years. MY son Jonathan is now 10 and my daughter Little Selena is now 9. My mother turned me into CPS and CPS took my kids away from me and gave them to my mother. I was charged with 3rd degree felony injury to a child. I slapped my son when he was 5 years old and he ended up with a bruise on the side of his face and that is the reason why my mother called CPS. Anyways, Judge gave me 7 years of probation with a restraning order that as long as I am on probation I am not allowed to be within 100 feet of my son. I have 3 more years of probation. Now my mother is giving me much hell. She is pushing the issue of having me be put in jail for 6 months because a year ago The Attorney of General placed me on probation. Which means that they watch closely to see if I make my child support payments and if I miss a payment I would have revoke the probation that was placed on me. And so I missed some payments and my mother has the right if she wants to havw me put in jail or not and she said in court July 9,2007 that she wants me in jail because of missed payments. My mother is making it hard for me to even enjoy life. My mother is a sorry excuse for a human being. I don’t have the money for a good attorney to pull me out of this mess. I want to do away with my parental rights so I can stop paying child support. I belive I should not have to pay child support simply because I can’t see them for the law tells me I can’t. I need the best attorney in the world to help me terminate my parental rights as a mother to my kids and to help keep me out of jail. I live with my mother’s mother who hates her daughter with a purple passion. We tried to get a protective order on my mother for my grandmother. But of coruse that is another whole story. I am begging for your help Tyra and I don’t know what to do anymore. I have to go back to court next month on Aug. 13,2007 to see if the judge is going to place me in jail or not. I have no money and no attorney to save me. Please, Please Tyra can you help me get the best attorney that there is to help get me out of this mess so that I may one day enjoy my life and to be able to move foward in my life. Please email at lisaselena@aol.com or you can write to me my address is 5410 28th Lubbock, TX 79407. Sorry for the short notice. I realize there is not a lot of time left for you to work on this. But if you can pull this off with what little time I have left I appreciate it with all my heart. Tyra, I just want to say that you are a special gift from God. God bless you Tyra. Thank you Tyra, for taking the time to read my email. I pray that I hear from you soon. Sincerely, Lisa Reed TX.
Lisa Reed said,
July 15, 2007 @ 6:29 pm
P.S. I forgot to tell you Trya that I am $10,000 dollars behind in child support. I only have 2 kids and they have been living with my mother for 5 years. My ex husband pays roughly $600 a month on child support. I was married 7years and now divorced 4 years.The father of these kids really don’t want to finish rasing them. He remarried 2 years ago and is already having problems in his marriage and he is affraid that if he had the kids right now and his marriage falls apart he will be on his own to rasie 2 kids and that is not what he wants, is to rasie 2 kids by himself. Lisa Reed TX.
JP said,
July 18, 2007 @ 4:30 am
Reading the Tyra letters is hilarious. Future posters…This is not Tyra’s website!
gingermiss said,
July 18, 2007 @ 1:56 pm
They either have no clue or don’t even remotely care.
The whole thing confuses me, to say the least.
deesassy said,
January 7, 2008 @ 5:11 pm
hi tya, my name is valarie funnye this is regarding my best friend betty wright abd her family thair coming to your show on new york on 1/8/08 i sing up corney for make a wish foundation she is going thoungth cancer i wont to be there to suport betty and family can u send for me to come to the show? my address is 940 forest loop rd,conway sc 29527… i dont have a home phone and my cell is off so if u need to reach me call my mom 843-546-6803
deesassy said,
January 7, 2008 @ 5:18 pm
deesassy37@msn.com
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