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Back to her roots

TYRA Banks finally revealed her real, unadulterated hair — and it looks fierce.

After 17 years of adorning her head with all manner of weaves, wigs, hairpieces and clip-ins, Banks showed off her natural, shoulder blade-grazing hair in the season premiere of “The Tyra Banks Show” yesterday.

“I know y’all thought I was bald-headed!” she said, gesturing to her slicked back hair. “I know it’s been a big mystery, an unsolved mystery, and I felt like I needed to solve this mystery . . . I wanted to show the real me, I wanted to show the raw me.”

To prove that her hair was the real McCoy — minus three inches of over-processed hair that she’d had cut off — Banks walked out on stage with her hair still wet from showering.

Then, she invited audience members to check for tracks (used in hair weaves), letting her hair stylist blow it dry until it was a slightly frizzy triangle, before having it styled into curls.

The hair stunt was part of Banks’ efforts to lift the veil of Hollywood glamour and show that there’s nothing wrong with being au natural.