NEWSTyra Banks Was A Bully

Oct. 28 2008, Published 10:56 a.m. ET
Tyra Banks makes it her mission to help women on her daily talk show, but she didn’t always exhibit such model behavior.
“In elementary school, I was the mean girl,” she tells OK!. “I would kick girls out of our group and make them go play with the non-popular kids.
"I was pretty bad,” she confessed.
Tyra, 34, whose DVD The Clique hits stores Nov. 18, blames her brother for her conduct.
“He was such a bully that I used to get my power back at school,” said the host America's Next Top Model and the Tyra Banks Show.
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So, what changed? Tyra turned into a tall, skinny teenager!
“I became the freak, the weirdo that everyone would stare at,” she said.


