Tyra Banks is single again after seven years with Louis Bélanger-Martin.
The former “America’s Next Top Model” host, 52, confirmed the breakup to the outlet photographers on Thursday when they caught her out in Los Angeles. Asked directly whether she was back on the market, Banks replied simply, “Yeah.” She quickly shut down any suggestion she was already hunting for love online, telling the cameras, “Maybe I am, [but] hell no am I online dating, girl, that’d be crazy!”
Banks revealed her inner circle has been pushing her toward Raya, the exclusive celebrity dating app. “I’m like, ‘What the hell is a Raya?'” she quipped to the outlet. “No, but I am dating. It’s nice to be single, it’s been a while.”
The split marks the end of a relationship that began in 2019 and spanned multiple continents. Banks and Bélanger-Martin, a Canadian businessman, were first linked that October after they were spotted having what an insider described as a “cozy dinner” at New York City hot spot Hutong. “The two were definitely on a romantic date,” the source said at the time, adding, “But [they] kept the PDA low-key.”
By then, the pair had already been photographed together repeatedly, though Bélanger-Martin had only been identified as Banks’s “mystery man.” The following month, they were reported to have taken the significant step of moving in together, splitting time among his apartment in England, his house in Barbados, and his home in Magog, Quebec. Banks’s son, York, whom she shares with ex Erik Asla, had his own room at the Quebec property, and Banks had moved clothes and jewelry there as well.
By January 2020, the couple had gone public enough for Banks to bring Bélanger-Martin to the Hollywood premiere of “Bad Boys for Life.” A source close to the model said then that they were “very, very much in love” and had been together for more than a year, noting their romance was “not a secret.” In recent years, however, Banks had largely kept the relationship out of the spotlight. The two were last photographed together at the Shadow Force event in Los Angeles in April 2025.
The breakup confirmation came just two days after Banks offered a window into her mindset on Hot 97. “I’ve learned it’s never too late to start again. I’m a single woman now, right? I’m 52 years old and I’m single,” she said on the radio show Tuesday. “I kinda was over it. I’m like, ‘I got my mom, I got my son and I’m good.'”
Despite that initial reluctance, Banks said she has embraced the shift. “I feel feminine dating [and] I’m back to that,” she shared. “There is no such thing as, ‘Oh, it has to be over because of an age or because you’re just done or, you know?’ So, I’m living my feminineness right now.”
Banks has one child, 10-year-old York, with Norwegian photographer Erik Asla, from whom she split in 2017. She has never married. Her romantic history has included high-profile names such as Will Smith and director John Singleton.
The model-turned-mogul’s candid remarks about rediscovering her single identity at 52 have already begun circulating widely, with her dismissive reaction to Raya drawing particular attention from fans. Her willingness to speak openly to both radio hosts and paparazzi suggests she is navigating this new chapter on her own terms.
Banks is expected to continue her work in television and entrepreneurship, with no public appearances currently scheduled for the immediate future.
