Tyra Banks is starting over — and she wants everybody to know it is NOT too late.
The 52-year-old supermodel and media mogul confirmed this week that her seven-year relationship with Canadian businessman Louis Bélanger-Martin is over, and she did it with the kind of honesty that had the whole room leaning in.
“I think that it’s never too late to start again,” she said during an appearance on Hot 97. “I’m a single woman now. I’m 52 years old, and I’m single, and I kind of was over it. I’m like, I’ve got my mom, I’ve got my son, and I’m good. I didn’t even have, like, a drive.”
But something shifted — and Tyra says dating again has woken something back up in her.
“I feel feminine dating, and I’m back to that,” she said. “There is no such thing as, ‘Oh, it has to be over because of an age or because you’re just done.’ So, I’m living my feminineness right now.”
Yes, She’s Dating — But Don’t Look for Her on the Apps
Two days later, on Thursday, November 12, Tyra confirmed it all over again on the street in New York City. Asked if she is single and back on the market, she didn’t hesitate: “Yeah.”
One thing she shut down fast? Online dating. “Maybe I am, [but] hell no am I online dating, girl, that’d be crazy!” she laughed. Her friends have been pushing her toward Raya, the celebrity dating app — and Tyra’s response became an instant classic: “I’m like, ‘What the hell is a Raya?’ No, but I am dating. It’s nice to be single, it’s been a while.”
Seven Years, Quietly Over
Tyra and Bélanger-Martin were first linked in 2019, and for seven years they kept their relationship mostly out of the spotlight. He worked alongside her in business, serving as chief financial officer of her SMiZE Cream ice cream company, and the two lived together in Australia starting in early 2024 as she built her SMiZE & Dream brand there. They were last photographed together at the Shadow Force event in Los Angeles in April 2025.
Tyra has not said when the relationship ended or why — and she doesn’t owe anybody that story. What she is giving women instead is the part that matters: at 52, with a son she adores, a mother in her corner, and an empire still growing, she is proof that a new beginning does not come with an age limit.
Ladies — Tyra says it’s never too late to start again. Do you agree? If you were starting over at this stage of life, what would you do differently this time?
Source: Tyra Banks on Hot 97 and in New York City, November 2026, as reported by USA Today, Page Six, and The Source.
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