America’s Next Faux First Lady
Tyra Banks graces the cover of the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine but it is the photos inside the mag that has everybody talking. In the coverstory photoshoot, Tyra channels Michelle Obama (posing with a Barack Obama lookalike) in various First Lady-like situations, behold:
Tyra Banks is sitting on the huge corner sofa in her office in New York, impressing on her interviewer the fierceness of Abigail Adams. Resisting the obvious choice of Jackie Kennedy (”although she was a fox”), it’s the second first lady who has Banks in awe. “I watched the John Adams series on HBO, and I was so taken by her that I Googled everything I could,” she explains, straightening the folds of her businesslike-but-bodacious Zara sundress. “She stood up for women. She was able to speak her mind about women’s issues with her man, and he actually, truly listened to her.” Today, though, it’s a rather more modern potential first lady who has Banks compelled. When it came to paying homage to Michelle Obama for this story, Banks found the process “surreal.” “It’s kind of embarrassing,” she confesses, “but in my early 20s, I used to want to be a princess. But I didn’t want to have to marry somebody in order to do it! Of course, I don’t see the position of first lady as a princess, where it’s something you have to marry into. With Barack Obama, his becoming president is them becoming president because Michelle was there from the beginning. Without Michelle, he wouldn’t be there.” Or, as she pronounces to her Tyra Banks Show camera after her Oval Office portrait, “Michelle Obama, you’re one hot mama.” A number of presidential candidates have appeared on Banks’s talk show (Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards), and she’s after Michelle Obama to appear this fall. She has met her before, noting she 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.”
Now this is a great photospread … it is a bit odd but it’s deffo gonna get people talking. I’m most interested in hearing what Michelle Obama thinks about this whole thing. To be honest, I would’ve been more intrigued had Tyra decided to portray First Lady Abigail Adams rather than Michelle Obama … and now you see why I am not a photo editor at a magazine. It’d be interesting to see if any fashion mags decide to do this same thing with the McCains … I think Paris Hilton would’ve made a great Cindy McCain … er, that is … if he hadn’t pissed off the entire Hilton clan by mocking her in his latest campaign ad. Since Paris is out, which celeb do you think would make a great Cindy McCain in a photoshoot like this?
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August 6th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
It’s Cindy McCain.
August 6th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
It’s Cindy McCain, not Carol :)
August 6th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I wish Michelle Obama would act as classy as Tyra looks in these photos.
August 6th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Yeah, I came via my rss feed to tell you it’s Cindy McCain as well.
August 6th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
That’s as close as Tyra’s ever going to get to the White House.
August 6th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
It is an odd choice for the theme of a photo shoot, but Tyra looks really good. I think she’s so pretty. Can’t wait for ANTM in September!
August 6th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
She looks NOTHING like her…. boring
August 6th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
They would have a hard time finding anyone as beautiful as Cindy McCain
August 6th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I think the next obvs choice to pose as Cindy McCain would be Heidi Montag — duhvs!! And being the media ho she is, you just know she would be all over that!!
August 6th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I think there’s only one good choice for Cindy McCain and that’s Joan Allen!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000260/
August 6th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Tyra Banks thought she could be a princess in her 20s, well its hard to be a princess. She forgot what happened to Princess Diana to begin with.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Oh god…Don’t say Heidi. The republican party is already having a tough time without the help of that horse. Anyways thier mascot is an elephant not a HORSE!!! I think Kate Hudson would play a good CINDY!!!
August 6th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Trent, you’re right. Abigail Adams would be more interesting. She dressed up as Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffany’s in a Vanity Fair shoot awhile back and she looked great.
The guy posing as Obama creeps me out. He looks like a mannequin.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Heidi Montag..DUH! She’s a huge McCain supporter…and a huge idiot. She’d be perfect. :)
August 6th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Blech. Tyra Banks. What a phoney. All the time.
August 6th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I wish Tyra Banks would go away. Sarah, you are ill informed she has no class, whomever thought up this photo spread should be fired. Booo Tyra banks sucks.
August 6th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
maybe heidi and spencer???
August 6th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
What a pretentious thing to do. Tyra is so full of herself, sniffing Janet Jackson, getting her boobs grabbed by a doctor just to prove they were real… what won’t she do? And what’s so great about pretending to be some Senator’s wife anyway? That’s nowhere close to “princess.”
August 6th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I get that Tyra means for this to be an “homage” to Michelle. However, I think it deserves a picture of Michelle popping up in the corner with the “beyotch stole my look!” bubble. Tyra, you’re no Michelle!
August 6th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Man, she is so freaking full of herself. It’s annoying!
Check this out instead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSwYMHkZgLg
:)
August 6th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
lana,
that youtube thing was the best thing ever.
and this poto shoot is innapropriate and chea looking.
tyras a tool.
August 6th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
They’re cute photos, but in the interest of fairness, it would be nice to do a Republican shoot (this is coming from a hardcore Democrat). I would say Christie Brinkley simply because she’s a bit older but still very pretty.
August 6th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
i’m sure lydia heast would love to do it… that is if she even know s who the McCains are
August 6th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
i think the photos are pretty good. i dont know why theres all this hate towards tyra. sure shes a lil … “hyper” at times. but her show can help alot of people out at times. when she does all her undercover stories about the dark side of modelling. or any of her more serious shows. shes a more real host then some others.
August 6th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
This should play Cindy-> http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/jonjo90/cryptkeeper.jpg
Looks just like her.
August 7th, 2008 at 5:16 am
i saw this earlier and i still think this is strange. its just weird, itd be one thing if the women were dead or a living legend but its just weird to impersonate someone whos still alive…..AWKWARDDD.
August 7th, 2008 at 5:48 am
JESSICA SIMPSON!!! aahahahaha.
August 7th, 2008 at 6:02 am
Dude, Vogue has already been overdoing the McCain homage for the past two issues. A big interview with Cindy McCain appeared recently and then in the Age issue Vogue featured an interview with the candidate’s grandmother.
I love fashion, and I care about politics, but this kind of shallow endorsement by one model or one magazine is just lame.
August 7th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Kristin Chenoweth would make a good Cindy photoshoot but it looks like there aren’t many poeple willing to publicly endorse McCain.
August 7th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Heidi! Except that Heidi isn’t an annoying attention whore like Tyra…so she would never do it.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:15 am
I’m sorry…Elizabeth did I read that corretctly and please tell me you were joking…please.
Elizabeth Says:
August 7th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Heidi! Except that Heidi isn’t an annoying attention whore like Tyra…so she would never do it.
Have you looked on any of these blogs lately? Thats all Heidi is…I mean that’s it.. You hit the deffinaition right on the head expect for the word “isn’t” I think you meant “is”
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August 7th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Michelle Obama is a tranny, and Cindy McCain blows her away!
August 9th, 2008 at 5:28 am
Yeah, I am not sure how I feel on the issue. All I know is that I don’t like Tyra, and this photoshoot is creepy because HE HASNT WON! Why would they go and do that? It is going to look pretty lame if he doesnt win later on this year. Why not wait will later on in like December?
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