Naomi Campbell is probably one of the best known supermodels
in the world – famous for her larger than life personality as much as her
extremely successful modelling career.
Her career in showbusiness started when she was very young –
only seven years old – as she featured in a music video for Bob Marley.
Following in her mother’s footsteps, she was an accomplished dancer even by
that young age and at twelve she was tap dancing in another music video, this
time for Culture Club.
She was lucky enough to be spotted by a model scout when she
was 15, and in an astronomical rise to stardom, featured on the front cover of
Elle before she was even 16 years old.
Over the following years her modelling career went from
strength to strength as she modelled for some of the top world fashion
designers and labels. In the late 1980s, the term ‘supermodel’ was first
coined, and she was one of the first six to be given the prestigious title.
She has progressed race equality as the first black model to
do many things, including featuring on the front cover of American Vogue.
Naomi’s personal life has been the subject of many a gossip
article, and the likes to keep the paparazzi interested by dating high profile
figures such as Mike Tyson and Robert De Niro, and having headline grabbing
episodes by assaulting everyone from employees to reports.
She has done a great deal of charity work, but has had some
bad press relating to gifts of apparent ‘blood diamonds’ given to her by the
former Liberian President Charles Taylor.
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