Tyra, thanks so much for doing this show. I grew up with seven brothers and sisters with a father and mother who cursed and fought all the time. My mom use to say that she is so ugly that she cannot stand to look at herself. My dad beat her and called her ugly until we got older and promised him a massive beating. Unfortunately, I marry a man 17 years older than me who financial and pyhsically abused me. I tried very hard to avoide marrying my dad. I waited and looked for all the bad signs but he was an angel until I had my two children. I thought if I marry someone this much older he would treat me like a queen. Was I wrong!

thank you tyra for doing this show today. i am extremely grateful...i was in an abusive relationship with a guy for 2 years. i stayed with him even after he picked me up and threw me on my back on the kitchen floor, after he head butted me and made my nose bleed, even after he spit in my face numerous times, would throw my dogs and personal belongings across the room...even AFTER getting a restraining order and even after having his family members tell me that if he didn't hit me in the face it was ok and that i should "get over it"...after letting him continuously live with me and have him treat me that way and even after getting pregnant and having a child with him. now i'm attending counseling at the women's center in my home town for abused women and i can say that it has helped me so much to know that i'm not the only one out there. i eventually left him in november of 2008 because i didn't want my son to have to go through what my mom did with my dad when i was younger because no matter what age you are or your child is they sense emotion no matter what and that will mess up that person whether you believe it or not. as it stands now he is leaving for Iraq in about a month and i feel extremely confused i don't want him to go over there and have the possibility of him not come home and me feel guilty for the rest of my life for my son not having some sort of bond with his father...even after talking to him lately thinking he's changed and thinking in my head maybe one day things will

My problem is if I don't find a way to explain things to myself, I'm not letting anybody else "tell me".

me and him have grown sooo close. tht we rely on eachother. i luv him. i luv him soo much. i told him to come and watch the show today. and me and him found some kind of closure. we both have self esteem problems. and we where able to find out, why, and how we can help eachother through this rough time. hes 18 and i make sure i tell him its okay to cry. becuz thts the only way u can stay....sane. so thnk you so much....u have no idea how much this has helped. thnks.....oh and im ur numba one fan! :)

thank you so much for doing this show. it came at a really good time. i just went through a extreme situation, where me and my mother got waay into it. and you know things were said that really hurt me, and i guess, hurt her as well. she told me to "go to hell" and im only 15 yrs old. that did some major work on my self esteem. i felt lik she must not of every really cared about me, because when u tell someone tht, its lik ur throwing in the towel, lik im done with you, i dnt want you anymore, i dnt care. and i honestly felt that way. as an african-american young women, u already feel as if society views you in that way, lik ur ghetto and u would never amount to much anyways. so i felt lik she was society, lik she just didnt care. my mom and dad fight alot, he tears you down emotionally. he does it to everyone, me, my mom, and my brother. i can recall countless amount of times where, he has made us cry, and told us tht were nothing, he told me tht i was gonna be working at mcdonalds. he choked my mom once. i remember me and my brother were trying to fight him off of her, but it didnt work. he jus kept on, and we were just sooo scared. i have sickle cell, and with sickle cell, u cant get to emotional. you cant get to excited because that would cause a pain crisis. and so living with parents that fight, and tell u to "go to hell" and tell you, your not gonna be anything, weres on my health....its not healthy for me....or my brother. me and him have grown

Hey Tyra!! Hows it going?? I am so glad that you are doing this show about being abuesed by a boyfriend or being put down by a freind or another family member. Like you said before NO MAN!!! has any right to hit another woman/girl no matter what!! They are not men thy are COWARDS!!! PEOPLE LIKE THAT MAKE ME WANT TO DO THE SAME TO THEM THAT THEY HAVE DONE OR ARE STILL DOING TO THESE YOUNG GIRLS. Also, people that put others down don't have much of a life themselves if they are this way toward there loved ones... it just erks me!!! We are God's children & i no that God isen't happy when people aren't acting in love. I love you'r show. You are doing a great job on the topices that deal with children & teens! Please keep up the great work!! You'r friend Vanessa Brewer. :) Have a great day. God bless.

Hey Tyra my name is stevee lopez I am a 20 yr old single mother from bay city michigan.I was involved in a couple of abusive relationships. It started with the father of my kids.It started with pushing then he went on and started choking me then slapping. After I got away from that relationship I got involved with this man who I thought was perfect. He treated me like a queen. Always told me I was beautiful and he was the first to say that he loved me. I thought I had it all. Then one night he flipped. He beat me so bad that night that I ended up in the hospital. The officer that came to take my statement said he had never seen a domestic violence beating that bad.I was kicked in my face, punched, choked unconcious and all the while he had a loaded gun in the trunk.He planned on keeping me in a garage until the swelling went down. He went in the house for a second and when I noticed he might be a minute I made a run for it. I ran to a cousins house and callapsed in the doorway. He is facing intent to do great bodily harm less than murder and ANOTHER gun charge. He is facing up to 15 years for what he did to me. I would like to let all women and young girls know that you are worth so much more than a slap in the face. If he hits you once he WILL do it again. I know this from experience. Don't be a victim of this epedemic. Know the signs to look for.

it is good i usually watch this program on television keep it up

hell dear i love how your show the world the positive side of modelling instead of the negativity that we have been showed for this long since you arrived. you give the world and the youth the hope to the modelling industry that it takes ones personality to be distructive not the industry hence models need high self esteem and a sensse of direction together with humanity to make it through. your voice is also heared through your tyra how on issues that conserns the society and have been unatended due to the society's way of finger pointing. love you and keep it up.