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The Conversation: Tyra Banks on reprising her 'Life-Size' doll, Lindsay Lohan and 'Next Top Model'

If anyone could rival the number of careers Barbie has taken on through the years, it might be Tyra Banks.

She's had turns as a model, an actress, a TV show creator, a producer, a host, a singer, a teacher, an author - feel like a slacker yet? But actually playing a Barbie-like doll, again, is what has fans of a certain generation feeling like that wish they made in 2000 has finally come true.

Banks reprised her role as Eve, a doll that comes to life, in "Life-Size 2." The original TV movie, which aired on ABC before reruns made the rounds on the Disney Channel, starred Lindsay Lohan as a young girl coping with the death of her mother with the help of Eve. The sequel, which premiered Sunday on Freeform, revolves around Grace ("Grown-ish's"

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