Naomi Campbell launched a charity but faced backlash for spending on luxury hotels and spa treatments. The speaker argues Campbell, a Black single mother managing stress and health issues while modeling, was held to impossible standards that her industry peers weren't.
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So she decides to give back. She didn't say how much she was gonna give back. She just said she was gonna use her name and finally give back. So she starts a nonprofit in her name, raises the money, hires people to manage the money. Those little ungrateful, entitled wannabe models come for our only Black Barbie all because she needed, in order to keep money coming in, She needed luxury hotel rooms. She couldn't stay at the Super 8. She couldn't stay at the Knights Inn. She's Naomi Campbell. How was she supposed to go out and parlay in these circles and get the money to bring it back to keep y'all employed? She needed spa treatments to keep her skin good. She needed cigarettes 'cause her nerves was bad because she can't eat. She still takes modeling gigs. She got a baby with no daddy, and she's a Black woman. There's a lot she's going through, and they suspend her from her own job for 5 years. Naomi.