Naomi Campbell - 50: What Fans Don't Know About The Legendary Supermodel

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

May 22 marks the 50th anniversary of the famous British supermodel Naomi Campbell. Unlike most of her colleagues, whose modeling career ends after 30, she still remains in demand in the profession, appears on the catwalks and on the covers of magazines. However, in addition to fame as one of the most successful models in the world, Naomi has also earned a reputation as the main brawler in the world of show business. But, making mistakes, she knows how to admit them, and on the eve of her 50th birthday she again surprised everyone with her revelations …

Naomi did not know who her own father was, and never met him in her life - her parents divorced when she was not yet born. From her mother, Afro-Jamaican ballerina Valerie Morris, her daughter inherited musicality and plasticity. She has been dancing since childhood and attended a ballet school. When she was 10 years old, she had a stepfather, who gave the girl his last name, but the relationship with him did not work out, and Naomi tried to return home later to see him less. During one of these walks in the parks of London, she met a scout from a Parisian modeling agency, and a year later she went to France for her first photo session.

At the age of 16, Naomi Campbell replaced a colleague who did not show up for a photo shoot, and instead got on the cover of Elle magazine. In fact, this is where her modeling biography began. After that, she was bombarded with new proposals, and soon she became the main character of the shows of the most famous fashion houses. Naomi was the first black model to appear on the covers of Time and Vogue magazines, and has appeared on the covers of over 500 popular fashion magazines throughout her career.

By the end of the 1980s. Naomi Campbell became one of the most sought-after top models, and by the end of the 1990s she became one of the most popular models in the whole world. Even setbacks couldn't hinder her success. In 1993, she fell during a runway show, walking the catwalk on 25-centimeter platforms, but got up, smiled and walked on. After that, her fame only increased, and these shoes ended up as an exhibit in one of the museums in London. Since then, the fall of models on the catwalk has become ironically called "make Naomi."

In the future, many designers asked her to repeat the fall in order to attract the attention of the press to their shows, but Naomi refused. “”, - she explained. Years later, the model posted a video of this crash on her social media page and accompanied it with Nelson Mandela's statement: "". She was never afraid to seem funny and awkward, and her self-irony helped her win even more fans.

She was known all over the world for not only exotic beauty, but also stormy temperament. There have always been many scandals around her name: she threw the phone at her maid, spat at the law enforcement officers at the airport, threw tantrums on airplanes and on television, fought with the police, rushed at the operators, trying to break the camera. At the same time, almost all her life, the supermodel was engaged in charity work and did a lot of good deeds. Every year she organizes shows, raising funds for kindergartens in poor countries with UNESCO, and also helps victims of hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis.

In the mid-1980s. Naomi Campbell made her debut as an actress, and in the mid-1990s. - and as a singer. She has starred in over 30 films, released a music album, and one of her singles peaked at # 1 on the Japanese charts. In parallel with her modeling career, she took up work on television and became the host of several television projects.

And in adulthood, Naomi remains in great shape and continues to go to the podium. However, her beauty is actually not as perfect as on the covers of magazines. The model does not hide the fact that she has been wearing wigs for a long time - due to frequent styling, her hair became weak and brittle in her youth and began to fall out. Therefore, she tries to prevent photographers from filming her without wigs. The model does not appear in public without makeup. Over time, her features became more graceful, which sparked rumors of plastic surgery. She herself never commented on this.

Despite the high-profile successes in the profession, the supermodel was not so lucky in her personal life. She has never been married, her longest relationship (with the Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin) lasted 5 years. Naomi explained this by the fact that almost all of her chosen ones treated her like a trophy. And those who knew her closely, admitted that the blame for everything was the heavy character of the model and the explosive temperament. In this case, the model declares: "".

On the eve of her 50th birthday, Naomi Campbell admitted in an interview that her life was never perfect, that she had been drinking alcohol and was addicted to drugs for 5 years, and that she had a hard time getting rid of these addictions. But she is not afraid to talk about it. The model is sure: "".

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