Tyra Banks is single, and she is not shy about it. The supermodel and entrepreneur, 52, has confirmed her split from longtime boyfriend Louis Bélanger-Martin after seven years together, announcing she is dating again and embracing a brand-new chapter.
Banks broke the news during a candid appearance on New York radio station Hot 97 earlier this week, telling host Nessa she had learned it is “never too late to start again.” “I’m a single woman now. I’m 52 years old, and I’m single,” she said. “I kind of was over it. I’m like, ‘I got my mom, I got my son, and I’m good.'” She doubled down on Thursday, November 12, telling TMZ on the streets of New York: “I am dating. It’s nice to be single. It’s been a while.”
Seven years, kept almost entirely private
Banks and Bélanger-Martin, a Canadian businessman, were first linked in late 2019 after being spotted dining together in New York, and they kept their relationship almost entirely out of the spotlight. They were last publicly photographed together in April 2025 at a promotional event for the film Shadow Force in Los Angeles. Banks has not revealed when the relationship ended or what led to the separation.
What she has made clear is what comes next. She is dating, she is enjoying it, and she has one firm rule: no dating apps. “Maybe I am [dating], [but] h— no am I online dating, girl, that’d be crazy!” she joked, adding: “What the h— is a Raya?”
“It’s never too late to start again”
The announcement struck a chord because of how Banks framed it. Rather than a sad farewell, she described rediscovering her confidence and her femininity after years of putting romance on hold. “Now I feel feminine, dating, you know, I’m back to that,” she said. “There’s no such thing as, ‘Oh, it has to be over because of an age or because you’re just done.'”
For the former America’s Next Top Model host, who made history as the first Black woman on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, the message landed as classic Tyra: bold, unbothered and entirely on her own terms. At 52, she says, single life suits her just fine.
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