YRA BANKS MAY be a stunning supermodel with her very own chat show but it seems she has just as many insecurities as the rest of us.

The 33-year-old - who has dated the likes of Seal in the past - says she gets the jitters whenever she goes on a date. 'Put up a camera and a wind machine and I'll give you sexy like Marilyn Monroe,' the America's Next Top Modelhost said. 'Put me at a dinner table with candlelight and the moon shining and I will give you a dork.'

The Coyote Ugly star says she has tried to tone down her glamorous image so that men do not find her intimidating and chicken out of approaching her, but that hasn't worked either. 'I've been having a lot of dating problems the last few years,' she said. 'One of my friends tells me, "You should drop the glamour in the beginning - no make-up, just totally jeans and holey tennis shoes". I do that and then the guys are all weird and don't call me back.' (19 May 2007)