Tyra Banks is planning to fulfill a lifelong ambition by adopting a child. The star claims she hasn't just jumped on the celebrity adoption bandwagon to copy Madonna and Angelina Jolie but insists she has harbored a desire to raise a child since she was young.

Banks says, "I've wanted to adopt since I was eight, nine years old, before it was hip. I really do think I will. I don't have to have a child come from my womb to have a connection. Children that are already born are beautiful to me. I can definitely be a mother to them."

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