Tyra Banks Co-Wrote New Book With Her Mom.

Tyra Banks’ new book is: “Perfect Is Boring.” Additional title: “Tyra and Her Mama.” Subtitle: “10 Things My Crazy, Fierce Mama Taught Me About Beauty, Booty and Being a Boss.”

Mama and daughter, together, co-wrote it back and forth.

Supermodel Tyra has hosted TV’s “America’s Next Top Model” and “America’s Got Talent,” and says, “I’d be nowhere without mama Carolyn London’s tell-it-like-it-is advice.”

Like: “Bringing me to the next level, she put me on a train, San Francisco to San Diego, so I’d learn about guys getting fresh, trying to get close or touch me. So I wouldn’t be nervous or embarrassed.

“She’d be my manager, accountant, business person. No spender, she was a saver. She said, ‘If they give it to you, they can also take it away,’ and, ‘If they gave me $40, still today I’d have that $40.’

“Medical-photographer mom even worked in surgery. Her outside business was glamour shots and cosmetics, so early I learned about photographs and makeup.

“And she taught me ‘research . . . research . . . there’s no new business without research.’ My first time modeling in Paris, she made me learn it all beforehand.

“She’d say, rejection? So what! They’re not rejecting you. They’re rejecting your product. Tweak it. Lose weight. Redo hairstyle. Adjust makeup. Change the audience. Go from high fashion to everyday. Rebel, experiment.

“Be sure your team’s awake. All on the same page. Don’t keep one who knows nothing. And easy with paparazzi. You’re no supermodel at this height forever. With your show, don’t overshadow, don’t push or expose yourself, don’t be vulnerable.”

On dating, it was, “Hold your tongue. Try being silent.” That’s tough when they got on my nerves. On raising a teenager: “They turn into adults. Don’t turn them into aliens. Remember when you were a child. Just be a parent.”

In addition to releasing the book, Banks is parenting her 2-year-old son, finishing her comeback season of America’s Next Top Model, shooting America’s Got Talent and getting ready for Life Size 2, which she's starring in and producing. The film, a sequel to the 2000 fantasy/comedy she starred in alongside Lindsay Lohan, will be a holiday movie.

Banks says she wants Lohan to be in the sequel and is having something written for her.

“It’s not going to be necessarily for little girls, but it’s going to be for the little girls and boys that grew up with Life Size," Banks says. "So it’s a more mature version, you know? Eve has grown up; Eve is experiencing adult things now. So it’s a different take on Eve.”

Banks and her mother are appearing at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas on April 11 to promote their new book.