- What's up what's up, Tyra Banks here.
I'm at BuzzFeed and we are going to have
a staring contest.
(dramatic music)
There are three rules.
Whoever blinks first loses.
Talking or trash-talking is totally allowed.
Most importantly, no one knows they're having
a staring contest with me.
(claps) Let's do this.
(dramatic music)
- OMG.
- I'm so nervous, my chest is like.
- [Man] I'm gonna have you take off the blindfold,
but leave your eyes closed.
- Okay.
- [Man] So on the count of three,
I'm gonna have you open your open your eyes
and the contest is gonna start, you ready?
- Mm-hmm.
- [Man] Okay, one, two, three.
- Okay. (laughs)
Miss Tyra in the building, are you kidding me?
Okay, I'm about to lose.
(tense music)
(purrs)
- Your eyes are watering.
- They are, I'm about to cry.
(Tyra whines)
Okay I lost. (clapping)
A miracle, oh my gosh, Tyra, hi, how are you?
- I am good, how are you?
- You must have made up this look, I love it.
Oh my gosh, these tears are part like whoa,
this is Tyra Banks slash oh my gosh, where are the onions?
Oh my gosh, hi.
- Look at your skin.
- Thank you, look at yours.
- What's up with your skin, though?
- I would like to thank my mother.
- But that, it's weird, it's like you're two.
How old are you?
- I'm 26.
- So you're like 47 'cause you're a black person.
- So basically 63.
- Exactly, you understand.
- All right, let's get it.
Okay, what do you miss most about doing runway shows?
- What I miss the most about doing the shows
is the walk, honey.
Yes, I made sure that I had a signature walk.
It's important to have something that
even if you were in silhouette and people can't see you
but they can see your outline, that they know it's you.
- Yes.
- And then I used to do this thing with my eyes,
I'd like walk, and I'd look to the left,
walk and look to the right, walk, look to the left.
So I miss the walk.
(tense music)
- [Man] One, two three.
- Oh my goodness.
- Hello.
- Hi Eve.
- Hi Emily.
- I'm smizing, I'm smizing.
- Yes you are.
Oh, I blinked! (laughing)
No, I'm supposed to go I blinked, Eve blinked.
- Oh my god, it's so nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you too, Emily, I love your wings.
- Oh thank you.
- [Tyra] Do you do those every day?
- Every day.
- They're so good.
- Thank you, what an honor, oh my god.
I think I'm supposed to ask you this question.
Okay, so which new models are you loving right now?
- Oh my god, Duckie.
- Duckie.
- Dang, she don't look real.
- [Emily] No, she's beautiful.
- Right, like she, (mutters)
she just looks like a drawing.
- Nobody beats Tyra.
(tense music)
- My hat, what a mess.
Oh my god, no, they took my hat.
I have hat hair, okay.
- [Man] One, two, three.
(dramatic music) (gasps)
- Staring contest, we're making fashion.
(whines)
Oh my god, I won.
Oh my god, I love you so much, you're so beautiful.
- [Tyra] Oh so are you.
- I'm so nervous.
- Are you nervous, why are you nervous?
- Because you're like iconic, are you kidding me?
- Oh, thank you.
- All right, I have a question for you.
So what current TV shows are you obsessed with right now?
- Oh, I love Ozark, I love Harlots,
and then that Julia Roberts one, what's that one called?
- Oh, the Amazon one, I forget, Homecoming.
- Homecoming, that is weird.
- [Interviewer] I have to watch it, I haven't watched it.
- It's good, it like calls you,
it's so good, you should watch it.
- Eyes closed.
- [Man] One, two, three.
(dramatic music)
- So I have two photos in my hands.
Only one person can be chosen.
(laughs)
- I can't hold my eyes open for a long time,
that's why I blink so much on Top Model,
because my eyes start burning.
- I won.
- You totally won. - I won.
- And you trash talked me.
Like she was like oh, surprise, not really, keep going.
I'm not shook, you're not shooketh.
- It was a shock though, hi, how are you?
What's one characteristic or hobby of yours
that might surprise people?
- Oh, I love to lick chips.
(laughs)
- See now, if you said that during the staring contest,
you would have won.
- I would have won.
So one time my partner on America's Next Top Model,
I'm at the judging table, Ashley Graham is here,
Drew Elliot is that, Law Roach is there.
I'm licking chips, we're about to decide
on who the winner is, I'm licking chips.
- Right, living your best life.
- And I'm putting them in a bowl, you know,
licking chips, putting them in a little bowl.
He comes over, he's like so. (crunches)
Let's talk about this, who you guys think should win?
- It was so nice meeting you.
- Nice meeting you too, you're so fun.
(dramatic music)
- Yes. - One, two, three.
- Oh my, hi.
- Hi Camilla. - How are you?
- How are you?
- You blinked.
- I did?
I'm just whack.
- All right, which style trend do you wish would go away
and which trend do you want to make a comeback?
- The style trend that I wish would go away
is 13-year-old little girls in short shorts.
- Okay.
- I'm like, really?
And it's like you're in the ninth grade or the eighth grade.
And the one that I wish would come back,
dynasty shoulder pads.
- [Camilla] Really?
- I love them, I wear them all the time.
- You have a big shoulder.
- I love a big shoulder.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- That's funny you said the thing about the booty shorts
because you're literally a swimsuit model.
- Used to be. - Used to be.
- I retired that booty.
- Girl, you could still go back to it.
- Oh you know.
- One, two, three. (dramatic music)
- Oh boy.
Oh my god, you're smizing so much, I can't.
Oh my god, I blinked.
(laughing) Oh my god.
- Hi Josh.
- Hi, nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you too.
- Oh my god, I'm freaking out.
(laughing)
How did you balance competing with other models
and building friendships with them?
- Oh, interesting question,
I guess there's only so many jobs to go around, right?
Yeah, I had some friends and some people that
just weren't very nice and I tried to stay away
from them as far as I could.
Oh Josh, nice to meet you too.
- Oh my god, that is so nerve wracking.
- [Man] Okay, one, two, three.
(dramatic music)
- I feel like I'm on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
- No smizing.
- Your eyes burning yet?
- [Rachel] A little bit.
- Mine are burning. (yelling)
- Hold it, hold it.
All right, we got this, we're in it together now.
(laughing)
- Yeah, Rachel is no joke.
- I have a question.
What was one of your favorite behind-the-scenes
moments from Life Size 2?
- Well, earlier on in the film,
I really wanted to get to know Francia,
who's also the other star in Life Size 2,
and we went to a spa and we got into the Jacuzzi
with towels and then I think we put the towels down
but then it was time to get out and there were no towels,
and I was like okay, I guess I'm bonding with my costar
because we're gonna be butt naked up in here.
From that moment, she was like my boo,
because like she saw my booty.
(dramatic music)
- [Man] One, two, three.
- I blink, I had to, I had to, I had to, I had to.
Oh my god, you're gorgeous.
- Thank you.
- Oh it's just, wow, I couldn't do it.
I couldn't, it was here.
- It was here?
- All there, yeah.
- Do you dance?
- [Interviewer] Yeah.
- I could tell.
- [Interviewer] Can you?
- I could tell, you went like that.
- But not professionally, I don't it.
- I can tell, I can tell it was just (laughing)
I didn't mean it like that.
Oh my gosh, you're like a comedian, you have something.
What are you doing here?
Quit, he's quitting, it's done.
- I just got here, Tyra.
- Oh just quit.
- Uh, what ANTM photo shoot.
- Why'd you say it so slow,
like you don't know what the show is?
- Because I'm nervous.
- A N T M.
- I'm nervous, it was an acronym.
What ANTM-- - There you go.
- Photo shoot do you think is the most iconic?
- Snakes.
- [Interviewer] Snakes.
- Season one, the girls had snakes
wrapped around their necks.
I was there, right there helping them pose,
and I will never forget Robin Manning,
our very first plus sized, what I like to call
fiercely real model on Top Model.
She had her snake and she was like Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
Like she just was talking to the lord,
just trying to get it together.
She was freaking out, she was crying,
but something overcame her, I talked to her,
the photographer talked to her, put her mind somewhere else
or even closer to God, and she created magic.
Give me a hug.
- Thank you so much.
- And you're like, yeah.
- I did some push ups before I came,
because I didn't know who was gonna be here.
- Yes, well that concludes my staring contest
here at BuzzFeed.
I think I failed miserably,
but it doesn't matter because I'm still the queen
of smize, see your later, bye.
(upbeat music)