Tyra Banks & Boyfriend Louis Bélanger-Martin: All About Their Relationship History
Tyra Banks is dating again. The America’s Next Top Model alum confirmed her newly-single status on November 11, revealing her split from her longtime boyfriend, Louis Bélanger-Martin.
“I think that it’s never too late to start again,” the former supermodel told HOT 97. “I’m a single woman now. I’m 52 years old, and I’m single, and I kind of was over it. I’m like, I’ve got my mom, I’ve got my son, and I’m good. I didn’t even have, like, a drive.”
Banks’ personal life has made headlines in addition to her professional one. Scroll down for everything we know about her history with Bélanger-Martin, the father of her child, and more.
Who is Tyra Banks’ ex-boyfriend?
Banks was first spotted with Bélanger-Martin in 2019, and though they were photographed together on multiple occasions afterward, the two kept the details of their romance private.
Unlike his now-ex, Bélanger-Martin isn’t involved in the fashion or entertainment industries. He has worked in the business field for years. He was the Chief Financial Officer of Banks’ ice cream company, SMiZE Cream, from 2020 to January 2026. Upon his exit from SMiZE, the businessman became the Chairman of the Supervisory Board at SKYFive, an airline company. He is also the founder of Groupe W, a private investment firm, per LinkedIn.
On the personal side, Bélanger-Martin has a son with his ex-wife, Valérie Martin Scraire.
Starting in early 2024, Banks and Bélanger-Martin lived together in Australia (they lost their California home to the Los Angeles wildfires in 2025). In April 2025, Banks appeared on Today With Jenna & Friends and opened up about the decision to relocate Down Under.
“I’ve been going to Australia a lot because we were making a lot of our ice cream there in this big facility, doing our recipes,” she explained, referring to he SMiZE and Dream company. “I just fell in love with it. Every time I went back, and went back. And the three countries that eat the most ice cream: America, New Zealand and Australia. So I was like, ‘I’m happy here and they love to eat some ice cream, so, are we going to do this family?’ And we did.”
Does Tyra Banks have a child?
Yes, Banks has one child, a son named York Banks Asla, who was born in January 2016. He is her biological child but was born via surrogate after she struggled on her fertility journey.
Banks and her ex (more on him below) tried to get pregnant via in-vitro fertilization (IVF) for a year before turning to surrogacy. They implanted one of their embryos in a surrogate to eventually have their son.
By the time York was 2 years old, he was already speaking Spanish, Norwegian, and English, Banks revealed in a 2018 interview. She also admitted, “I wouldn’t love for him to model, but I wouldn’t tell him, ‘Don’t do it,’ because then he’d do it more. I’m going to support what he wants and just hope it’s not modeling.”
Who is the father of Tyra Banks’ child?
The father of Banks’ son is Erik Asla, a Norwegian photographer. They started dating in 2013, but broke up in 2017, about a year after York’s birth.
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Banks and Asla met on Norway’s version of America’s Next Top Model when he was working on the show, which Banks created, as a photographer and judge in Season 13.
In addition to York, Asla also has three daughters from a relationship before he was with Banks.
Who else has Tyra Banks dated?
Banks has never been married, but she has been linked to a few other men over the years. From 2001 to 2004, she was in a relationship with former NBA player Chris Webber. Then, she dated financier John Utendahl from 2008 to 2011. In 1996, as her modeling career was taking off, she was briefly romantically linked to Seal.
