Tyra Banks Said She Eats Old Bed Crumbs for This Reason—and Jenna Bush Hager Was Speechless originally appeared on Parade.
Crumbs in bed are a universal struggle. Most people wipe them off, shake out the sheets, and swear to never eat Doritos under the covers again. But not Tyra Banks.
On Today with Jenna & Friends, the 51-year-old supermodel casually revealed she deals with crumbs… by eating them. Days later.
During the Monday, July 28 episode, Banks sat alongside host Jenna Bush Hager and shared her nightly routine: hanging in bed with her mom, Carolyn London, snacking on ice cream and popcorn while watching TV.
But when Bush Hager, 43, mentioned she avoids eating in bed because of the crumbs, Banks didn’t hesitate: “The great thing is like a couple days later…” Without skipping a beat, the NBC star said, “No, you do not! A couple days later you get down in there and…?”
“I do!” Banks replied. “And you know, Jenna, I clean crumbs by eating them. Because if you put them in the trash, I’m like ‘It’s gonna get roaches or something.’ So you just clean it up with your finger. Or you just like eat it.”
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That led to laughter from behind the cameras and more follow-up questions. Like… what if the crumbs are on the floor?
“If it’s on your ground! That’s your feet,” the Life-Size actress said. “I have [a] no-shoe rule in my home so that I can eat off my floor. No, but I’m serious, I do do that.” She added, “It’s not a two-second rule, it’s not a 10-second rule, it’s like a minute rule.”
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Banks even said the “rule” applies long after the crumbs fall. “A few days if it’s not super perishable. Like a popcorn? I mean, come on. That’s like astronaut food. It just lasts forever. You just pick it up. I’m not joking.”
Would she eat food from her bed a week later? “Yeah, if I knew it was mine in my bed, yeah.”
Bush Hager could only respond with a wide-eyed, “Oh my god, Tyra,” before cutting to commercial.
Banks is co-hosting Today with Jenna & Friends for the full week of July 28 through August 1.
Tyra Banks Said She Eats Old Bed Crumbs for This Reason—and Jenna Bush Hager Was Speechless first appeared on Parade on Jul 28, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 28, 2025, where it first appeared.
