Tyra Banks Says She Regrets Posting a Picture of Her Son on Instagram
Since the world was introduced to Tyra Banks’s son York Banks-Asla, he has since been crowned the tiniest “smizer” known to mankind. Literally he’s already a model!
But in an interview with Seth Meyers, the supermodel says she kinda regrets revealing him on Instagram so suddenly.
“It wasn’t so much that I was itching for the world to see him,” she said. “I went to a restaurant for Father’s Day with my son and my dad. It was by the ocean and my son was, ‘Awa! Awa! Awa!’ Water. And so I was like, ‘OK, you’re going to get in the water for the first time.’ I slathered him with sunscreen; he was looking purple, ’cause he’s black, so when we put on sunscreen we look purple. And he just was looking crazy—got slammed by waves, sand everywhere.”
She continued: “I’m trying to hide him with a blanket. I pull over the gas station after they get the shot, I text his dad [fashion photographer Erik Asla] and I’m like, ‘I’ve got to put this picture out before the paparazzi. I don’t want them to make money off our child and have the first picture.’ So, I posted the damn picture. The next day, there ain’t no paparazzi pictures, ’cause mama knew how to hide that camera. She’s a supermodel for a reason! And so now his picture is out there and I didn’t need it to be!”