The woman who has been making
Tyra Banks' life a misery came face-to-face with the supermodel on her TV chat show. Adult film star Tyra Banxxx
stunned the model/TV star when she appeared on the front cover of porn
industry magazine Xtreme, dressed up to look like the real Tyra. In a
taped segment on her daily show, which will air on Thursday, Banks
confronted her doppelganger and declared she's taking her name back.
Banks also told Banxxx, whose real name is Alana, how shocked she was
upon first hearing that the Xtreme magazine cover girl was using her
name. She says, "For a second I was like, 'Did they put my head on
someone else's body?' I thought that it really did look like me. The
first thing that went through my head... It wasn't anger, it was more
of a curiosity, and an empathy like, 'Where does this girl come from...
And what led her to this?'" Banxxx has agreed to retire her name,
insisting she never intended to offend her heroine. She tells the real
Tyra, "Growing up, everyone always said I should be a model and
everyone said I looked like you... You're an inspiration to me." By way
of thanks for letting the name go without legal action, Banks has
offered to help her doppelganger escape the adult film world and find
employment in another field.