#RawAndReal: 'Here I am. Raw!': Tyra Banks dares to bare her ''real'' face.

On Monday she bared her emotions by talking about how changes is good for the soul in a long essay posted to Instagram.

And two days later Tyra Banks bravely posted a selfie of her almost unrecognizable face completely make up free as she stared, wide-eyed, into the camera with a caption musing on the nature of honesty in beauty. 

It revealed the beautiful 41-year-old's uneven skin tone, blotches and dark circles around her eyes. The America's Next Top Model wrote: 'You know how people say #no filter but you know there's a freakin' filter on their pic? Or maybe there's a smidge of retouching going on but they're lying and saying it's all raw & real?

'Well, this morn, I decided to give you a taste of the really real me. I wanted to smooth out my dark circles so badly!!! But I was like, "Naw, Ty. Show 'em the REAL you." 

'So...here I am. Raw. And there YOU are...looking at me, studying this picture. Maybe you're thinking, "Whoa, she looks ROUGH." And if you are, great! You deserve to see THE real me. The really real me. #RawAndReal'  And it seems Tyra's fans supported her decision to bare all as the picture had pulled in 49,500 likes just an hour after she posted it.

It's a face very few people will have seen outside of her closest friends, family and her 50-year-old Norwegian photographer beau of two years, Erik Asla. The couple met on the set of Norway's version of Next Top Model two years ago and have been together ever since.

Tyra, who is prepping a reality show, The FAB Life, with model Chrissy Teigen, seems to be in a reflective mood about her life and career.

I think she still looks beautiful without her warpaint on :)