Naomi for Vogue Brazil, May 2016 Naomi Elaine Campbell was born in the South of London to Afro and Chinese Jamaican parents on May 22nd, 1970. Her father abandoned her family while her mother was carrying her but she had the support of her grandmother, mother and aunts growing up. Her talents in the performing arts were displayed at an early age. Naomi and her mother, Valerie She spent a great deal of time in Rome, Italy while her mother performed as a professional dancer. Naomi appeared in the music video for Bob Marley's "Is this Love" song when she was just eight years old. Her mother, Valerie, later enrolled Naomi in the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts where she learned the art of ballet beginning at age 10. While shopping in London, she was discovered by a scout named Beth Boldt after which she appeared on the cover of British Elle Magazine at the young age of 16. Naomi Elaine's career within the modelling industry was not an easy one. ...
It was just a another day in a scissor happy beautician's world when a hair stylist from 717 Hair Studio refused to straighten her client's natural hair. The client came into the salon with mid-back length afro textured hair. The beautician proceeded to give her client a long winded speech about her opinions on the state of her hair. In the midst of tooting her stylist horn and bragging about her years of experience, she stood over her client and spewed a great deal of negativity towards her hair. As she proceeded with her speech, she was quite hands on as she expressed that her hair was the worst she's ever seen. At one point, she began to exclaim that "As woman of color, we hold onto length and you don't realize that you're holding onto the length but it's not healthy. So you're holding onto dead length." The stylist's behavior became even more distasteful after she took a section of the client's hair, flipped it up so that it stuck ...