Tyra Banks seems to know that some of the things she enjoys are things other people would find “gross.” And yet she still spoke openly about her “addiction” when she cohosted Today With Jenna & Friends on Thursday, July 31. In conversation with Jenna, Tyra revealed that she enjoys popping pimples and picking toes.
Tyra warned Jenna that her habits would ‘disgust’ her.
On an earlier episode of the show, Tyra revealed that she eats snacks in bed then eats the crumbs “a couple of days later.” This revelation got a lot of attention, so before sharing more of her “gross” habits on Thursday’s episode, Tyra admitted that she now has a “reputation” for being disgusting.
She then went on to share that in addition to eating crumbs, she likes to pick toes. “I like to pick,” Tyra said. “I like the toe. And if it has some stuff in it, I don’t mind digging it out. But I have a kit. You have to have a kit. So you have to have, like, some alcohol or some, you know, some stuff.”
Later, Tyra admitted that the toes ‘stink’ sometimes.
Tyra went on to explain how her toe-picking habit can be even grosser at times. “The toenail, because there’s been stuff in there,” she explained in detail “The jam. The toe jam is up in the nail, and then you pick, and sometimes it’s different colors. Sometimes it’s brown, sometimes it’s green.”
Jenna asked Tyra whose toes she is willing to pick, to which Tyra responded, “Anyone that wants it — my mom, my friends, my man, my son.”
She also enjoys popping pimples.
Tyra went on to tell Jenna that she wished she had a pimple during their conversation. “If you had a pimple, I would be staring at you,” Tyra told her. Jenna asked, “What would be your mental track? What would be going on in the brain?”
She told Jenna she would be thinking, “I want it so bad.”
To her, the habit is more like an “addiction.” She added, “It’s disgusting and erotic at the same time. It touches those parts of you.”
Jenna asked Tyra if she has any limits.
To a lot of people, the toe-picking habit already sounds pretty extreme. Naturally, Jenna wondered if anything would be too disgusting for Tyra. And while Tyra seems unfazed by stinky feet, she does get grossed out by some things.
“Nether regions,” Tyra stated. “I’m not picking up in those. If somebody’s like, ‘Oh, can you check this?’ I’m like, ‘No … that’s where I draw the line.'”
