"She has a very womanly, gorgeous body that goes up and down," says her good friend Heidi Klum.

"I get so much mail from young girls who say, 'I look up to you, you're not as skinny as everyone else, I think you're beautiful,' " Tyra Banks says. "So when they say that my body is 'ugly' and 'disgusting,' what does that make those girls feel like?"

"I get so much mail from young girls who say, ‘I look up to you, you’re not as skinny as everyone else, I think you’re beautiful. So when they say that my body is ‘ugly’ and ‘disgusting,’ what does that make those girls feel like? "

"I’ve made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where’s the pain in that? If I was in pain, I would have dieted. The pain is not there - the pain is someone printing a picture of me and saying those (horrible) things, " Tyra Banks says