Supermodel Tyra Banks is selling ‘hot ice cream’, but everyone else just says ‘Huh?’

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Tyra Banks at her Smize & Dream ice cream shop holding her hot ice cream flavour Hot Mama.

Tyra Banks at her Smize & Dream ice cream shop holding her hot ice cream flavour Hot Mama.

PHOTO: TYRABANKS/INSTAGRAM

Sandra E. Garcia

NEW YORK - Tyra Banks taught the world how to smize – that is, how to smile with the eyes but not the mouth, her signature move to achieve a fashion-editorial look in photos.

Now, the American supermodel and TV personality is trying to introduce another conceptual head-scratcher: hot ice cream.

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