Opinion: Tyra Banks to play Michelle Obama on paper

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This just in: The New York Post reports that fading supermodel Tyra Banks is going to play dress-up and undergo an actual makeover to dress up to look just like the real rising political wife Michelle Obama.

It’s supposed to be for the cover of an upcoming issue of Harper’s Bazaar, given the overwhelming satirical success of the recent Michelle-Barack cover on the New Yorker magazine.

And then the side-splitting Vanity Fair satire of the New Yorker satire.

Talk about bazaar.

With the real Michelle out there for millions to see most every day really campaigning all over for her real husband, Barack, the magazine apparently thinks that a fake one will help sell copies. Maybe it makes sense in New York.

(UPDATE: Harper’s Bazaar clarifies that while Banks will be on the upcoming cover, she won’t be dressing like Michelle Obama there but will be on inside pages as a ‘homage’ to both Obama and Jacqueline Kennedy.)

But why do we think this possible stunt has more to do with Tyra than the possible next first lady, who’s already graced several other covers for real?

-- Andrew Malcolm