Tyra Banks takes off to Bali to get over split

Dec-13th-2011
LONDON: Tyra Banks has gone on a 'spiritual trip' to Bali after breaking up with her boyfriend, reported the Daily Mail on Tuesday.

The America's Next Top Model host has embarked on an Eat, Pray Love style trip to the Far East with a female friend to get over the split from banker John Utendahl after three years.

Friends had predicted that Banks, 38, would settle down with Utendahl.

'Tyra has gone away with a female friend and has been island-hopping, visiting Bali and taking a spiritual retreat,' a source told the New York Post.

Utendahl,who runs an investment bank, is reported to have got over the split and was seen at a bar with a leggy Russian model.

Banks first met Utendahl in 2007, but only went public with their romance a year later.

Earlier this year the former Victoria's Secret model and 50 year old Utendahl were spotted during a romantic vacation to Mexico.

Banks, who won an Emmy for her chat show The Tyra Banks Show has never talked publicly about her love life.

But when she appeared on Larry King's Dinner with the King last week she said her tough girl appearance as a judge on Top Model was all an act.

She said: 'In real life I'm passive aggressive..I'm even in coaching to learn how to be confrontational.'

A spokesman for Banks confirmed she was travelling, but refused to comment on reports of her split with Utendahl.

A spokesman said: 'I do not comment on Tyra's personal life.'

In the film Eat, Pray Love Julia Roberts travels to the Far East to get over the end of a relationship.

The film is based on the best-selling book by Elizabeth Gilbert.

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