Tyra Banks said on HOT 97 that she is single at 52 and back on the dating scene. The comment is her clearest update on a private life that has stayed mostly out of view while she has kept working across television and publishing.
“I think that it’s never too late to start again. It is, I’m a single woman now, right? 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.’ And I was like, I didn’t even have like a drive, you know… But now I’m like, ‘You know what? It is not too late.’ And now I feel feminine dating, you know, I’m back to that. And 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 femininness right now,” she told Nessa.
HOT 97 and a reset
That shift matters because Banks did not describe a tentative maybe. She drew a line between being done with dating and deciding she is ready again, which turns a personal update into a clear status change. For anyone tracking her public life, the useful fact is simple: she says she is single now and open to dating.
She framed that return around age rather than circumstance. The point was not nostalgia or reinvention for its own sake; it was that she rejected the idea that dating closes off at 52. In practical terms, that makes this less about celebrity chatter than about how Banks is defining the next phase of her personal life on her own terms.
Louis Bélanger-Martin timeline
Banks had been linked to Louis Bélanger-Martin since around 2018, after previously dating Erik Asla. She and Asla share a son, York, who was welcomed via surrogate in 2016, and they split in 2017. That timeline is the backdrop for why her latest comment lands as a fresh reset rather than a routine relationship update.
Her earlier link to Louis Bélanger-Martin also keeps the focus on continuity: this is not a new public courtship reveal, but a statement that the old chapter has moved on enough for dating to feel possible again. In a celebrity economy built on overexposure, Banks is still choosing the cleanest route — saying she is single, saying she is dating, and leaving the rest off the record.
Project Runway and Netflix
Banks’s interview did not happen in a vacuum. She has returned to fashion television as a recurring judge on Project Runway, and she is also in a legal dispute with Netflix over Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model. Those professional fights make a personal reset read differently: she is active, visible, and managing multiple public fronts at once.
Her dating update also lands after she said she still wants to be attracted to a man, but no longer needs the old standard of a “supermodel kind of guy.” What she wants now is narrower and more grounded — someone present. That is the clearest takeaway from the interview, and it sets the bar for whatever comes next in her dating life.
For now, the story ends where Banks left it: single, 52, and willing to start again without making it into a spectacle. She has named the shift herself, and that usually means the next move will be hers to define.
