She was mentored and adored by Mandela and couturier Azzedine Alaïa, who named her their honorary granddaughter and daughter, respectively. I’m blessed at the opportunities I still have – but how many times was I called a bitch, because I stood up for myself back in the day? 12. Learn about Naomi Campbell: her birthday, what she did before fame, her family life, fun trivia facts, popularity rankings, and more. I want to make sure I dance the night away, surrounded by people I love and who have been with me through thick and thin. I’ve watched and read what you’ve done in the past. “A very real inner peace.”The supermodel opens up about friends, enemies, taking on the tabloids – and fashion’s new world orderShe has mellowed in recent years, and says people would be surprised to know that “I don’t really react any more”, and that she is vulnerable, “but only in my [shoots] and with the people, my friends, I feel safe with.” Nonetheless, she still sets off a distinctive, electric ripple in every room she enters. How does that feel? And the other thing that’s taken me a while to understand in my growing up is that you have to accept and love yourself first, and not be validated by someone else.”Propping her leg back up on the velvet seat, she looks me over and then tells her publicist to leave. “I feel a difference on many levels now – but someone I know recently called it a ‘cult’,” she says, visibly irate.
I won’t sit there and roll over and take that shit. I’m looking forward to a good old dance, too. I just want us to be in a beautiful place I have chosen.” She smiles. “I embrace young people and their creativity, it’s fun for me. “I’ve met thousands of people at events and been photographed with them – there are pictures of me with everyone. So to hear this called a ‘cult’, that was like, ‘Wait a second: so you want me to feel bad now that things are turning the other way?’” She makes an incredulous face. You wouldn’t say that when you were getting everything handed on a plate, and things were coming your way constantly.” She puts out another cigarette. I won’t do an all-black show, for instance, because it would be hypocritical given what I’ve stood for, for so long.” Which is what? “I don’t want to be in darkness. To her credit, Campbell responded each time with measured grace, sticking to a script that she stands by years later: that she isn’t perfect, that she isn’t proud of everything she has done, and remains a work-in-progress. “I want it to be for young women, to inspire them, or help them in some way. The daughter of a Jamaican-born dancer and an unnamed father, Naomi Campbell attended Dunraven School and the London Academy for Performing Arts as a youngster.Padma Lakshmi is best known as a model and the host of the TV reality show 'Top Chef,' and she also launched her own jewelry and kitchenware line.Meanwhile, she launched a YouTube channel, Being Naomi, and continued her work in the modeling industry by becoming the face of the NARS cosmetics Spring 2019 campaign.Naomi Osaka became the world's No. “I feel at peace on the continent,” she says, regal and beatific. “Now it’s about working out the logistics.”Campbell can drift in and out of self-help vernacular, from poised motivational speaker to south London realness.
Does she worry about staying relevant? “Clots are no joke,” she says. I don’t have depression, but mental health is something that I care about a lot and it makes me happy to know that [the UK] is taking mental health seriously now. Finally it’s balanced out. “Do me a fucking favour. “I want to stay in the light,” she explains. Yet she has also been ambushed by criticism in her television interviews, most notably by Oprah, Tyra Banks and Barbara Walters, who, respectively, have chided her for being “a petulant diva”, “a bully” and “a bitch”.
“[Doctors] stopped me from flying for six weeks two years ago. Victoria Beckham rose to fame in the 1990s as a member of the Spice Girls.
'In 2000, she pleaded guilty to a similar attack on an employee in Canada. “I didn’t see any of that shit, because thank God for my armour, my being called a bad bitch – I was lucky it never happened to me. All the designers I loved, Azzedine and Gianni and Marc Jacobs and Alexander McQueen and Vivienne [Westwood] all loved each other and enjoyed each other’s company. “No. Her assistant claimed Campbell threw a mobile phone at her and threatened to throw her out of a moving car. But it’s not changed me. I do not want that again.”Enninful’s appointment at Vogue, and his subsequent hiring of Campbell as a contributing editor, is part of a sea change in the mainstream. Is she aware of how beautiful she is and the reaction she gets?
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