Tyra Banks

Supermodel Tyra Banks was told she was too big to be successful in the modelling world, but her mother helped her realise her potential in the industry while sitting in a pizza parlour. "At the start of my career, I lived in a two-body's world. One was full of beautiful white girls who would excitedly be like, 'OMG, you are so skinny!' The other was my beautiful African-American community of friends and family, who were always trying to fatten me up," Banks wrote in her new book "Perfect Is Boring", reports femalefirst.co.uk.