hey tyra i am 13 years of age and i have been through a tough time my parents just got a divorce and i feel so sad and lonley but i love the show and thats y i whatch it all the timeand i just wanted to tell u that you inspire me to be a better person in so many differant ways u r the reason that i learn to deal with so many differant things without exploding and just talking thenm through but i also wanted to ell u that i relly want to meet that special person and i think that that person is taylor lautner my friend would always tell me that girls r like apples and all the good ones are at the top and all the bad and easy ones fall to the ground and the one that really likes u will climb all the way to the top for u and i think that taylor would climb all the way to the top for me if we just got to meet

Well tyra, im AnnMarie and im 13 and at my little school in the little town i live in, we were all doing good until one day after lunch on a break. they were passing weed and of course i saw it and i didnt like it AT ALL, im all against that stuff i find it pointless and stupid. But i really didnt know what to do, and i couldnt stand it anymore to i went to tell my vice princpal. 11 people got expelled that day, and i got all the blame for it, which i dont mind because i think it was the right thing to do but that was about 4 months ago and im still getting crap for it. They are coming back this january and im not excited at all :/ but i know one day i was going to have to deal with it. But sometimes i just wish i could go back and wish nothing wouldve never happened...and i still dont know what to do, i feel like no one gets me. any advice?

Hey Tyra!, I'm Monica Cruz, i'm 14 and a freshman in High school. I'm a girl who pretty much has it all. But when it comes to my weight and guys, well lets just say they don't like COWS! A lot of people tell me i don't look as fat as I am, but once the question comes out "How much do you weight?" I'm ashamed to tell them. I lie about my weight, I really weigh 197 pounds. I've try'd EVERYTHING! I'm in sports, I run, I do excercies, and i'm on a DIET, but NOTHING seems to work!. I was watching your show one time and I heard about the story of the little girl that lost weight ALL by her self. I couldn't believe it! I felt like a total loser! I mean if she could do it so could I. But Tyra I HAVE and I can't seem to lose or even gain weight. My workouts are intense and I haven't seen results. I've been working out like this for about 2 YEARS and NOTHING and I mean NOTHING seems to work. Tyra PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME!!! I'm BEGGING YOU!!!! (Please read this TYRA!!)

Hi. I'm assuming my problem is not a normal teenage thing, although alot of kids I know are suffering just the same, some more than me. But we have suffered a great loss, and I'm not looking for sympathy or anything, but my best guy friend was recently killed in a car accident. He was 17, would be 18 in a couple weeks. I am just having a hard time coming to terms with this, he was so good to me. I miss him so deeply and I wish he was still here. My problem is I feel so guilty that I wasnt there for him, that I couldn't be at his funeral. I wish he wasn't gone and I just can't come to terms with the fact he's gone. Everyone keeps telling me to move on, remember him, but just let go of the fact he's gone. I can't do that, I miss him too much! Do you have any advice to make this pain recede a little bit?

hey tyra im 14 and i hate how i look i used to waer sweaters at skool every single day for 3 years and now i m in high school and i feel like going back to my old habit i treid to lose some weight but i cant. i sometimes dread buying cause i m afraid it is not going to fit me. people look at me with no problems but if they really know then they what i go through just lok a little pretty 4 skool , as u can see i hav realli low self confidense

dear tyra, i should've wrote this a long time ago but here i am now. im a 13 year old girl who used to cut. I used to cut my legs and i used to use a eraser on my arm. that didnt last only for about 5 months. My mom found out before school ended last year and she forced me to go to therapy. It helped and i stopped all of that. The only reason i did that is because the june before i did all that my dad called me and my mom up while we were on vacation. His phone call included the fact that he was about to commit suicide, we called the cops on him and when they showed up he was still alive but said we were crazy and he would never do such a thing. A few months later his friend came to pick him up for work. He found im in the bathroom, attemping to hang himself. He got there just in time. But in august my mother, therapist, and myself thought i was better so i canceled my sessions. I was good for the first couple of moths but i've recently cut my legs more, not deep like i used to though. My mom doesn't know and i'm going to keep it that way. I do it now because...well no real reason. Just stress, change, and more dad drama. by that i mean i am bisexual and he said if i ever like girls he and his family would hate me and never accept me.... he later apologized but i still believe him. I'm positive you're not going to read this but i just had to express the major thought that has been on my mind. Sorry for babbling on

Dear Tyra. You probably won't ever read this but I just need to get everything off my chest. I'm 17 years old and a black female. I've been cutting myself around four years. It it started freshman year of high school. But I can remember as far back in the third grade hurting myself. I would bang my head against the door, hit myself with anything and pull my hair. I guess this all started because I never seemed to fit in anywhere even in my own family. I've had family memembers tell me they hate me and that really hurts. I've been bullied even now I still do. I have lowest self-esteem when comes to my appearance such as bad skin, crooked teeteh, some perspiration issues. Alot times I get angry with my father because hes never around, family and our finacial situation. I've seen my mother in a not so healthy relationship. I've come close to being raped and was touched inappropiately by a classmate. I want to stop cutting but I can't its so hard. I walk around with a smile but deep down I'm hurting. Cutting has become my new way of coping under stress and frustration. It's something hard to talk about because its not common in the black community, but I wish the issue would be brought up. I hope one day I can get help to stop.

Hi Tyra, I have been struggling with depression, self injury, and possibly bipolar disorder. I have grown up in a pretty dysfunctional family for most of my life and the effects of it are starting to show. My older sister, whom I was very close with was hospitalized when I was about 7 years old because of her none stop mood swings and manic depression. She couldn't come to my 8th birthday because she wasn't allowed out. This starting changing my relationship with her. She became a zombie with all of the medications and treatments that were "going" to help her. I started to see her as what the doctors labeled her as, "mentally Ill" instead of my kind, funny, sister. During this time my dad quit his Job because of his anxiety and depression. He became very paranoid and never wanted to leave the house. My parents both didn't have jobs and we moved from my home town into the city. Skipping to 4 years later, I have been bullied and teased in my first year of middle school. I started to cut my arms, legs, and feet, first just with scissors then I moved on to more dangerous thing like razors and box cutters. I was cutting in the bathroom at school, my house, anywhere I could find relief from these overwhelming feelings. But one day it wasn't enough and I decided to cut deeper and deeper till I was unconcence on the schools bathroom floor. I was hospitalized that same day for trying to committ suicide. The hardest part was when I had to go back to school. People didn't know how to treat me so they didn't talk to me at all. I was even more alone then before and I didn't know what to do.

hey tyra, i was wondering if u could help me with a problem of sweating. i use dove clinical cause i sweat alot and it use to work and now it doesnt. i dont know wut to do i cant have the freedom of wearing tight shirts or long sleeve shirts it so hard to deal with this in middle school can u plz help me!!!!

tyra i was hoping maby u could help me with something well when i was at lunch one of the popular girls came up to me as a joke and said well i notice u were flirting with my boyfriend because i sit next to him in like all my classes and i said no we r just friends i dont like like him and all of her friends and my friends were listening and one of her and my friends came up and sat down and said well friends turn into couple and said then they get married and have kids so they told the boys to beaware and a boy said so when r the babies coming and i started crying please tell me wat i should do

Hi Tyra, my name is Elisa, and I wanted to say how much I look up to you. I use to have a low self esteem when I was younger, I'm 15 now, and thanks to some of the episodes on your show and my dad signing me up for modeling at Barabizon its gotten some what better. But the kids at school still get to me. I never really fit in at my school, so its hard to keep a smile on my face to not worry my friends. Then to top it off, my parents keep expecting to much from me. I need to have good grades, get into a top school, and not worry about any one else. they have been telling me this since I was real young. And i was wondering if you have any advice on how to deal with this. Because of my parents expecting so much from me, I don't deal with them any more. I know that sounds bad, but i can't stand to be near them when i feel like the judge me so much. They don't even know I'm bi and have had girl friends. They don't even know of my boy friend now. So please let me know if you have any advice.

Tyra, I recently watched your Teen Sex episode and I felt like I should have definetly been on the show. I too, like 2 of your guests made a dumb decision and contracted herpes. I was with a guy whom I absolutely trusted and did not use protection with, he went out and cheated, contracted herpes, and came back and knowingly gave it to me. I only told a few people, and I feel like I'm so trapped. There is nothing I can do to him, and now I'm stuck with this for life. I hide my pain and act as if things are okay, but they are not. I do not like myself anymore, i feel like I'm forever ruined by this and I just dont know what to do. Tyra, If you could give me some words of wisdom I would greatly appreciate it, so I can begin to accept myselft and move on with my life.

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I'm turning 19 in a couple of weeks and i have been through alot. okay so i have been with my current boyfriend for almost 6 years off and on since we were 13 years old it hasnt been the healthiest relationship but we love eachother. so we broke up around june this past summer and we were seperated for about 3 months and he recently found out that the girl he had a one night stand with while we were not together is now pregnant!! i am so devistated. i do not know what to do whether i should stay with him because i love him to death or do i leave him?? as of right now he does not know forsure if this is his child. it breaks my heart everyday that this is happening because weve been together so long and dont have a child together and for him to have a child by someone that he does not like or love or is even interested in is not fair to me. sometimes i wish i had the strength to move on or make a decision. i want to spend the rest of my life with him but how do i learn to deal with this situation.

I'm turning 19 in a couple of weeks and i have been through alot. okay so i have been with my current boyfriend for almost 6 years off and on since we were 13 years old it hasnt been the healthiest relationship but we love eachother. so we broke up around june this past summer and we were seperated for about 3 months and he recently found out that the girl he had a one night stand with while we were not together is now pregnant!! i am so devistated. i do not know what to do whether i should stay with him because i love him to death or do i leave him?? as of right now he does not know forsure if this is his child. it breaks my heart everyday that this is happening because weve been together so long and dont have a child together and for him to have a child by someone that he does not like or love or is even interested in is not fair to me. sometimes i wish i had the strength to move on or make a decision. i want to spend the rest of my life with him but how do i learn to deal with this situation.