Getting to the Bottom of Tyra Banks’s Smize Cream

After months of teasers and cryptic social media posts, the supermodel-host’s ice cream brand launched—and I needed a taste of the ”Smize surprize”
Caroline Goldfarb • Los Angeles Magazine • April 16, 2021
Tyra Banks is a fascinating and iconic figure: a model, talk show host, and entrepreneur allegedly worth $90 million dollars. A woman who may or may not have gone to Harvard Business School. A woman with her own emojis (TyTyMojis), a YA novel, a...
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