Biografie

First black female model on the cover of French Vogue, British Vogue, and Time Magazine.

After pleading guilty to a charge of reckless assault against her employee Ana Scolavino, she was sentenced to five days community service and ordered to attend two days of anger arrangement course by a New York court on 16 January 2007. Two months later, she mopped floors in New York's Department for Sanitation.

Daughter of Valerie Campbell, a Jamaican dancer, and an unnamed man, who is a mixed-race man of part-Chinese ancestry (according to her mother).

Supermodel Naomi Campbell appeared at a war crimes court in the Hague Thursday August 5, 2010 to give testimony about a so-called "blood diamond" given by the former Liberian president Charles Taylor.

Appeared on The Tyra Banks Show (2005) to end her rivalry with host and fellow black model Tyra Banks.

"I just did not have time to sit down and write a book." - When questioned about her use of a ghost writer for her novel "Swan" (1996). Campbell admitted that she wrote almost none of the book.

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out. I work very hard, and I am worth every cent."-December 1999 issue of Playboy

I look at [modeling] as something I'm doing for black people in general.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.