How Tyra Banks went from catwalk to boardroom: ‘I was a triple minority’ – The National

How Tyra Banks went from catwalk to boardroom: ‘I was a triple minority’ – The National

Tyra Banks seems to be settling into Abu Dhabi just fine. “My first night here I downloaded Talabat and I got 15 pints of ice cream to see how it was tasting over here,” she said on stage during a talk at the Forbes 30/50 Summit, held at Louvre Abu Dhabi on Monday.

It wasn’t purely indulgence for the supermodel-turned-entrepreneur, though, it was product testing to suss out her competition, as she plans to launch her latest venture, Smize Cream, in the UAE.

Early in my career, when I would do talks like this, they would ask me about challenges of being a woman