Tyra As Michelle: Harper's Bazaar Photo Shoot Set In The Obama White House (PHOTOS)

From Harper's Bazaar:

Tyra Banks is sitting on the huge corner sofa in her office in New York, impressing on her interviewer the fierceness of Abigail Adams. Resisting the obvious choice of Jackie Kennedy ("although she was a fox"), it's the second first lady who has Banks in awe. "I watched the John Adams series on HBO, and I was so taken by her that I Googled everything I could," she explains, straightening the folds of her businesslike-but-bodacious Zara sundress. "She stood up for women. She was able to speak her mind about women's issues with her man, and he actually, truly listened to her."

Today, though, it's a rather more modern potential first lady who has Banks compelled. When it came to paying homage to Michelle Obama for this story, Banks found the process "surreal." "It's kind of embarrassing," she confesses, "but in my early 20s, I used to want to be a princess. But I didn't want to have to marry somebody in order to do it! Of course, I don't see the position of first lady as a princess, where it's something you have to marry into. With Barack Obama, his becoming president is them becoming president because Michelle was there from the beginning. Without Michelle, he wouldn't be there." Or, as she pronounces to her Tyra Banks Show camera after her Oval Office portrait, "Michelle Obama, you're one hot mama."

Click here to see the entire shoot.

Comments

[psychmaj323]

02:44 AM on 08/06/2008

What was the point of this?

[gakabani]

10:59 AM on 08/10/2008

to make realize that we are a frivolous society, pathetic to say the least.

[ShanniC]

11:55 PM on 08/05/2008

She does not look a THING like Mrs. Obama. She needs to stop while she is ahead.

[honeydiva]

11:33 PM on 08/05/2008

she has lost her big headed mind.

[Yola]

11:25 PM on 08/05/2008

This was necessary because????

[aztecdiva]

10:00 PM on 08/05/2008

Ummm. They did some serious airbrushing of Tyra in those shots. And, yes I don't get the point of the shoot.

[barackobama4prez]

09:34 PM on 08/05/2008

i don't get the point of this....

[bessie1]

06:37 PM on 08/05/2008

Would Tyra Banks be willing to be muzzled and hidden away like they have done to Michelle Obama?
Where oh where can she be? Taking care of the children, of course.

[jas1906]

12:35 AM on 08/06/2008

If you would try reading and listening, you would know Ms. Obama is in Florida with her kids. Tomorrow she will be in Virginia talking to women voters. Unlike, Ms. McCain she does not have to stand by her man to make him young. Ms. Obama has a message. Bessie go hide, you are disgusting.