Tyra Banks' Michelle Obama Makeover

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Michelle Obama Tyra Banks, Pictures: Tyra Banks' Michelle Obama Makeover
Copyright 2008 / Bazaar Magazine
Tyra Banks channels Michelle Obama! The pearls, the Oval Office -- and posing with a Barack look-a-like!

For its latest issue, Harper's Bazaar casts Tyra as First Lady for a spread about today's most fashionable lady in politics.

The former supermodel tells the mag she hopes to book Michelle on her talk show. The two met once and Tyra says Michelle was "so warm and so gracious. She's got that direct-eye-contact, truly-connecting thing. She's not a 'ha, ha, ha' type." She smiles and continues, "And I love that she's tall."

Published 8/5/08 by the Insider

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  • oh tyra and her antics..
    peppypanda12 324 peppypanda12 8/5/08 Reply
     
  • Just want to inform your staff the little girl in the Tyra Bank shoot for Harper Bazaar September issue do have a name. (everyone kept referring to her as the little girl.) She is my daughter, and her name is Ariel Binns. 917-519-5218.
    Thanks,
    Dawn
    anonymous anonymous 8/6/08 Reply
     
  • Fabulous!
    anonymous anonymous 8/6/08 Reply
     
  • INTERESTING DATA JUST RECEIVED ON TAXES
    >
    > Spread the word.....
    >
    > This is something you should be aware of so you don't
    > get blind-sided.
    > This is really going to catch a lot of families off guard.
    > It should
    > make you worry.
    >
    > Proposed changes in taxes after 2008 General election:
    >
    > CAPITAL GAINS TAX
    >
    > MCCAIN
    >
    > 0% on home sales up to $500,000 per home (couples) McCain
    > does not
    > propose any change in existing home sales income tax.
    >
    > OBAMA
    > 28% on profit from ALL home sales
    >
    > How does this affect you?
    >
    > If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28%
    > of your gain
    > on taxes.
    >
    > If you are heading toward retirement and would like to
    > down-size your
    > home or move into a retirement community, 28% of the money
    > you make
    > from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will
    > adversely affect
    > the elderly who are counting on the income from their homes
    > as part of
    > their retirement income.
    >
    > DIVIDEND TAX
    >
    >
    > MCCAIN 15% (no change)
    >
    >
    > OBAMA 39.6%
    >
    > How will this affect you?
    >
    > If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual
    > funds,
    > college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or
    > anything that
    > pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly
    > 40% of the
    > money earned on taxes if Obama become president.
    >
    > The experts predict that 'higher tax rates on dividends
    > and capital
    > gains would crash the stock market yet do absolutely
    > nothing to cut the
    > deficit.
    >
    > INCOME TAX
    >
    >
    > MCCAIN (no changes)
    >
    > Single making 30K - tax $4,500
    > Single making 50K - tax $12,500
    > Single making 75K - tax $18,750
    >
    > Married making 60K - tax $9,000
    > Married making 75K - tax $18,750
    > Married making 125K - tax $31,250
    >
    > OBAMA
    > (reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)
    > Single making 30K - tax $8,400
    > Single making 50K - tax $14,000
    > Single making 75K - tax $23,250
    >
    > Married making 60K - tax $16,800
    > Married making 75K - tax $21,000
    > Married making 125K - tax $38,750
    >
    >
    > Under Obama your taxes will
    >
    > more than double!
    > How does this affect you?
    >
    > No explanation needed. This is pretty straight forward.
    >
    > INHERITANCE TAX
    >
    >
    > MCCAIN 0% (No change, Bush repealed this tax)
    >
    > OBAMA Restore the inheritance tax
    >
    > How does this affect you? Many families have lost
    > businesses, farms and
    > ranches, and homes that have been in their families for
    > generations
    > because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those
    > willing their
    > assets to loved ones will not only lose them to these
    > taxes.
    >
    > NEW TAXES BEING PROPOSED BY OBAMA
    >
    >
    > * New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than
    > 2400 square feet
    >
    > * New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren't high enough
    > already)
    >
    > * New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating gas,
    > water,
    > electricity)
    >
    > * New taxes on retirement accounts and last but not
    > least....
    >
    > * New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can
    > receive the same
    > level of medical care as other third-world countries.

    Please Tyra, will you ask Senator Obama to respond to me? I am so tired of the same OLD White MEN following the 1800's agenda. Rich gets richer and the poor gets Poorer.
    anonymous anonymous 8/7/08 Reply
     
  • WTF is this about?
    anonymous anonymous 8/10/08 Reply
     
  • I can verify that! I know her.
    And her mother.
    Hi Dawn!
    -Stephanie
    anonymous anonymous 8/10/08 Reply
     
  • So what? Nobody cares who "the little girl" is anyway!
    anonymous anonymous 8/15/08 Reply
     
  • tyra,

    Please offer your services to actually give Michelle a fashion make-over.
    She Definately needs it, togerther with some lessons on how to move around grascefukky.
    anonymous anonymous 8/25/08 Reply
     
  • Michelle Obama is a class act!
    anonymous anonymous 8/26/08 Reply
     
  • Tyra, when you do your makeover, please, please "you create a princess" will you. An "American Princess" for the people. She is so beautiful. Your'e images above look more like a reality show wardrobe. I need to see the most beautiful,woman in the world come alive. Stay conservative, lots of drapping, use royal colors. Lot's of femine chiffons. I loved the way you did her hair and makeup. Oh, and don't forget Obama and the girls. You can do it!
    anonymous anonymous 8/29/08 Reply
     
  • wow, trust Tyra to pull off a photo shoot like this. Nice job.
    anonymous anonymous 10/25/08 Reply
     
  • Tyra is pretty but definitely no Michelle Obama. Michelle is a very classy lady and it would take a very special person to portray her.I do not think the Obama girls' look alikes bears any resemblance to Sasha and Milia. DV
    anonymous anonymous 1/28/09 Reply
     
  • Sorry, but that little girl doesn't look anything like little Sasha.
    For one thing, Sasha is cute, and this little girl is not!
    anonymous anonymous 1/29/09 Reply
     
  • This little girls looks nothin like Sasha Obama
    anonymous anonymous 1/30/09 Reply
     
  • The "little girl" whose name is Ariel IS cute. No, she does not resemble Sasha Obama. There is no need to be nasty. Please don't insult children. That is totally distasteful!
    anonymous anonymous 1/30/09 Reply
     
    • Thank You for your comment above. It is always surprising and gravely disappointing when people lose their minds and say mean things about children. It's as though they don't take the time to THINK and weigh their words before they open their mouths...Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things, Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles. And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity...(James 3:5-6a). Whomever you (the-writer-who-needs-some-love) are, your lack of self confidence and indeed your self-hate is shameful and sad, and warrants you looking for the beauty inside of you so that you can receive the love you need. Besides, didn't your Mother ever tell you that if you have nothing good to say, kepp your big mouth shut? Same goes with writing. Oh, and BTW, I hope you remember this when you have children of your own. JL-C.
      anonymous anonymous 1/30/09
       
  • we love Ariel we think she is beautiful and she she is very smart so please don't say anything about her until you get to know her shi is our friend and by the way she does look like sasha she doesn't have to look exactly like her is a look a like
    You are beautiful Ariel
    Cherish and Charity
    anonymous anonymous 2/2/09 Reply
     
  • people tell me that my two little girls (DeMia & Zoe) remind them of the Obama girls
    anonymous anonymous 2/7/09 Reply
     
  • Great job:) I love the pic. Thank you for portraying the Obama's the right way(The New Yorker.).
    anonymous anonymous 2/17/09 Reply
     
  • Speaking of First Lady Michelle Obama:

    Michelle Obama is a racial-minority individual, and in her heart and mind she inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.

    George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).

    George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.

    And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.

    Many people know what Bush did.

    And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.

    Bush was absolute evil.

    Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.

    Bush is a psychological prisoner.

    Bush has a lot to worry about.

    Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.

    In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.

    Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
    B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
    Messiah College, Grantham, PA
    Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

    “GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
    ______________________
    I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
    anonymous anonymous 3/8/09 Reply
     
  • Speaking of First Lady M. Obama:

    Michelle Obama is a racial-minority individual, and in her heart and mind she inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.

    George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).

    George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.

    And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.

    Many people know what Bush did.

    And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.

    Bush was absolute evil.

    Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.

    Bush is a psychological prisoner.

    Bush has a lot to worry about.

    Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.

    In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.

    Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
    B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
    Messiah College, Grantham, PA
    Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

    “GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
    ______________________
    I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
    anonymous anonymous 3/8/09 Reply
     
  • Omq he is so hot way better than Obama i will fukk him o.d lmfao J.k il Tyra stil pretty.
    anonymous anonymous 3/23/09 Reply
     
  • Nice try, Tyra is a very smart and fair looking lady, but not a Michelle Obama. Michelle is a class act all by herself. A combination of brains, beauty and education all in one package. It would take a very special person to portray her. I do not think the Obama girls' look alikes bear any resemblance to Milia and Sasha. Klowe
    anonymous anonymous 4/5/09 Reply
     
  • Nice try, Tyra is a very smart and fair looking lady, but not a Michelle Obama. Michelle is a class act all by herself. A combination of brains, beauty and education all in one package. It would take a very special person to portray her. I do not think the Obama girls' look alikes bear any resemblance to Milia and Sasha. Klowe
    anonymous anonymous 4/5/09 Reply
     
  • WHY WOULD TYRA GIVE HERSELF A MAKEUNDER ?
    anonymous anonymous 6/10/09 Reply
     

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