Barack Obama on the beach with his family in December, 2006. Credit: #99/Fame Pictures
Tyra Banks has an upcoming interview in Harper’s Bazaar in which she talks about her admiration and hope for presumptive Democratic candidate for US President, Barack Obama, and his wife, Michelle. We reported last week that Banks would dress up as Michelle Obama for the cover of the magazine. She does appear as a preppy looking Michelle posing by a lookalike Barack in the Oval Office, but that photo is in the inside of the magazine, not the cover. Banks gives a lot of stupid quotes about Obama in the interview, advance details of which were printed in Star Magazine. You have to wonder if her endorsement is any help to the candidate whatsoever. She does have an inexplicable fan base I guess, as her show is popular enough:
Tyra Banks… would love to score Michelle Obama as a guest on The Tyra Banks Show! The supermodel-turned-TV titan is so fascinated by Mrs. Barack Obama that she was thrilled when Harper’s Bazaar tapped her to pose as the Democratic First Lady hopeful for its September issue, on newsstands Aug. 19. “She’s got that direct-eye-contact, truly connecting thing,” says Tyra, who’s met Michelle before. “[She is] so warm and gracious.”
“With Barack Obama, his becoming President is them becoming President, because Michelle was there from the beginning,” Tyra tells Harper’s Bazaar. “Without Michelle, he wouldn’tbe there.” What kind of First Lady would Tyra be, given the chance? “I’d wear a V-neck shift and a two-inch heel. Even if the President were taller, I would keep them low. Otherwise it gets a little too sexy,” she says. As for hair, Tyra jokes that her biggest dilemma would be “to weave or not to weave.” And her Secret Service acronym? “KMFA: Kiss My Fat Ass.”
But all joking aside, Tyra says she’d stand by her man. “In the end, the First Lady should be her man’s rock and his boulder and his mountain. And she should be calling about 50 percent of the shots!”
“When Barack won the nomination, I just started bawling,” confesses Tyra. “I started calling all these people, and everybody was talking to me like I was crazy. They’re like, ‘Well, he hasn’t won yet,’ but I’m like, ‘Yes, he has, because he’s gotten this far.’ I think he gives everybody so much hope.
“What gives me tears is if Barack Obama wins, kids are going to say a black man can be President too.”
[From Star Magazine, print edition, August 18, 2008]
Michelle Obama would do well to distance herself from Tyra Banks and say she’s too busy to appear on that tabloid talkshow. She probably knows better than to appear on Tyra’s show. At least Bazaar didn’t put the Tyra as Michelle photo on the cover of the magazine, but the stunt certainly got them enough publicity anyway.
Michelle has said that she doesn’t get involved in every policy decision for Barack. She said that “I am not going to realistically be the policy expert on every opinion and position that Barack has because I don’t have the time to do it, quite frankly. And I have to be okay with that.” In another interview she said “My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief” to their two daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7. Tyra is not doing her any favors by declaring Michelle should be calling 1/2 the shots if her husband becomes President. People vote for a candidate, not his wife, and there’s already some wariness around Michelle because she’s an accomplished woman. It just seems like some of these celebrities and their half-baked statements are not helping Obama at all.
I’ll stop with all the political news today, but it seems like it’s really creeping into the celebrity realm. If it gives me an excuse to publish more shirtless pics of guys I’m on it.
Here’s Obama shirtless in Hawaii on 12/21/06. I just started subscribing to Fame Pictures and was excited to see they have those exclusive Obama beach shots. He looks a lot better in most of them than the one that was the most popular.
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