Tyra Banks wore a bathing suit on her “Tyra Banks” show the other day. She actually wore the same bathing suit that has been shown several times in the tabloids that are all slamming her for gaining weight.

Tyra moved her body into different positions and stood at different angles to the camera to demonstrate how the wrong angle might have made it appear that her weight gain was substantial.

“Luckily, I’m strong enough and I have a good enough support system,” Banks, 33, says. “I love my Mama, and she has helped me to be a strong woman so I can overcome these kinds of attacks, but if I had a lower self-esteem, I would probably be starving myself right now. That’s exactly what is happening to other women all over this country.”

She grew increasingly emotional and irate as she addressed her detractors “have something nasty to say about women who are built like me … women who have been picked on, women whose husbands put them down, women at work or girls at school – I have one thing to say to you: Kiss my fat a–.” You can see a video of her rant on people.com.

Tyra has admitted to having gained 30 pounds since her runway days, but says she still feels hot.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with her body at all, but I saw the photos that the tabloids portrayed and her legs do look heavier in those photos than they do on the cover of People Magazine this week, and in the video clip of her rant. Perhaps she was a bit heavier when that photo was taken than she is now?