Tyra Banks' son York Banks Asla was born in January 2016 via surrogate. His father, Erik Alsa, is a photographer Banks met while hosting the Norwegian version of "Top Model." The couple started dating in 2013 but called it quits in 2017.

For a while, the couple struggled to conceive. According to Entertainment Tonight, Banks tried to get pregnant by Vitro fertilization numerous times over a year and a half. "Yeah, I don't remember if it was, 'Am I less than a woman?'" Banks tells ET. "But I remember just thinking, 'Oh my god, I waited too long, like, why did I do this?'"

After multiple tries and not conceiving, the model decided to try surrogacy, a decision initially she wasn't too fond of. "Mine wasn't just strictly infertility," she tells Scarymommy. "It was also having trouble holding the baby inside of me. After I got past that and then was trying to do the whole surrogacy thing, it was really, really hard. I went through that privately — I didn't even tell all of my family, but my mom knew. But I think that's about it. A couple of friends knew what I was going through. And I just wanted to keep that private until my son was born and to be transparent about that. I feel very fortunate that I was able to have my son after many, many, many rounds of IVF."