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Tyra Banks at 45 Covers Sports Illustrated Swim Issue summer 2019.
Credit: Laretta Houston/SPORTS ILLUSTRATED.
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Summer 2019 Sports Illustrated Cover:
Swimsuit: 2019 Issue: Portrait of Tyra Banks posing during photo shoot.
Great Exuma, Bahamas 2/19/2019
CREDIT: Laretta Houston
- She’s 45 years old and looks AMAZING.
Banks was the first African-American woman to appear solo on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swim Issue in 1997 and was on the cover twice. Her coming out of retirement for the 2019 cover truly holds a full circle meaning. She was also the first Black woman to be on the cover of GQ.
The model donned a barely there string bikini and was shot by Laretta Houston in the Bahamas. Banks quit modeling to focus on her multitude of businesses, including America’s Next Top Model where she has created model stars like Winnie Harlow and Eva Marcille.
Tyra was photographed in Great Exuma, Bahamas, by Laretta Houston wearing a tiny yellow string bikini in her comeback cover. And she made an appearance on Good Morning America on Wednesday morning, telling the hosts “My first one was 23 years ago, how crazy is that…I’m like damn—I’m 45 dog!”
She also said that she’s 25 pounds heavier than she was in the 1997 shoot.
“We couldn’t find the exact one in the archives—it was the polka dot bikini so we recreated that bikini,” she said. “I recreated it [the shoot]—25 pounds heavier.”
There’s no question that Tyra looks amazing—but she works hard to stay fit all year long. Here’s how she does it.
Conversation With Model Nanfe Jemimah Oyeleke
My Name is Nanfe Jemimah Oyeleke. I am a model, a fashion designer, and a wife. I love cooking, watching movies, painting, and travelling. I am an alumna of Abuja Fashion Academy. I am from Plateau State (Langtang South). I have been modelling professionally for about 6 to 7 years now. It all started by taking pictures in school (Plateau State Polytechnic). People liked it and used it for their photo booths and I was motivated to push further. I would use my student allowances to pay for studio shoots and I would style myself too. I was so proud of myself. The pictures trended everywhere in Jos and people literally looked at these pictures in admiration unknowing to them that I hadn’t booked my first job yet. Looking back at those pictures, they look so funny but my friends were so proud of me and what I did then.
Nigerian model Nanfe Jemimah Oyeleke; is also the wife of a renowned celebrity photographer, Emmanuel Oyeleke, was told she wouldn’t succeed in the modeling business, look where she’s Now. The two times face of zaron Cosmeticwinner/model has an impressive list of runway credits, and fashion campaigns under her belt. Jemimah Oyeleke Who has been seen on several billboards for Zaron cosmetic, GTBank fashion week, Darling Nigeria hair campaign etc. Putting in a lot of work as a model. She shines on as a Fashion designer, her brand (KNANFE) is known as one of the top upcoming fashionable and minimalist designs seen on celebrities like Chimamanda Adichie, Fatima El-rufai, Temi Mo’abdu, Lala ogubem, Zainab Balogun, Big Brother’s Cee Cee and Adesua Etomi Wellington…
Jemimah spoke to us about her life as a model, her brand and her personal casting tips. Here is our conversation with Nanfe Jemimah Oyeleke.
Jemimah Oyeleke Debuts Womenswear Brand Knanfe
Contemporary Nigerian womenswear brand Knanfe has released its debut capsule collection aptly named COSMOPOLITAN. The collection features a unique utilization of up to the minute fabrics with sleek and structured minimalistic overtones; perfect for summer, spring and feel-good moments for every fashionable woman. A design brand os owned by the wife of popular photographer Emmanuel…
Nandi Mngoma walked the red carpet BET Awards 2016
When she was listed on both Elle US and E! News ‘red carpet best dressed lists’, I felt chest pains and so did all other South African fashionistas. She served us a “Proudly South African” moment.
She donned a flawless and absolutely African monochrome mermaid ensemble that perfectly hugged her curves and completing the look with a chunky jewellery neck piece.
The entire look also gave me ‘a Xhosa wedding vibe’, that’s how a Xhosa princess or queen if you will, would look like on her wedding day but of course with the required additions of a head wrap and traditionally fit make-up style.
Mngoma announced that the dress is one of the creations from her upcoming fashion line, in collaboration with designer Inga Madyibi.
ABOUT HER
Nandi Mngoma (now Nandi Madida) is an actress, singer and a TV presenter. She was born on March 20, 1988 in Maphumula in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Her father is a doctor and her mother a lawyer.