Tyra Banks Establishes Girls Camp

Supermodel Tyra Banks, who established a summer camp to help girls develop self-esteem two years ago in California, plans to open a similar camp in Florida.

Banks said Saturday that she is considering the Fort Lauderdale and Orlando areas as possible sites for the new non-profit camp, called T-Zone.

"The facility is very important," Banks told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "It has to be safe, something sanitary and exceptional staff."

Banks started the first T-Zone camp in Santa Barbara, Calif. in 2000. The weeklong, all-expenses-paid camp for girls ages 13 to 15 was born after Banks received countless letters from teenagers seeking guidance about body image, self-doubt and pressures from boys.

Banks said she eventually hopes to open T-Zone camps all over the country.

"I want to take it national as soon as possible," Banks said. "But I want quality control. I want it to be like McDonald's or Coca-Cola. It's the same everywhere."