Tyra Banks CANCELS Annual Holiday !!!

by **J The Kidd** Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:57 pm

Supermodel-turned-talkshow host TYRA BANKS has sacrificed her annual
holiday abroad - so she can save cash in light of the global economic
downturn.

The business-savvy beauty, 34, admits she has reconsidered her
vacation plans this winter (2008 so she can keep up her tradition of
paying her staff Christmas bonuses and giving restaurant waiters
generous tips.

She tells Ebony magazine, "I gotta take care of my people. Hotel prices
are at a peak. Because of what's going on with the economy I've decided
not to take that vacation. So I was like, I'll just chill. I'm doing a
'stay-cation'. Staying in the States."

But Banks confesses she lives a generally frugal lifestyle herself -
because she wants to ensure everything she buys is value for money.

The star, who reportedly earned $28 million in 2007, says, "I'm all
about value. For instance, I'm decorating a new apartment in New York
right now, and I have a meeting with the designer and I'm going to tell
him, 'I don't care how much money they say I make in a year. It could
be more, it could be less. But you don't need to be looking at that
number and spending my money as if it is yours.'"

Her best pal Kenya Barris, who helped bring Banks' America's Next Top
Model show to TV, adds, "The thing she is impressed with is getting a
deal on something. She gets a kick out of being frugal."