Friday, April 4, 2008

Supermodel Naomi Campbell Arrested

Date of birth: May 22, 1970 (1970-05-22) (age 38)
Place of birth: Streatham, London, England
Height: 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Eye color: Brown
Measurements: 34B"-24"-34"
Profession: British Supermodel

Campbell has never met her unnamed father, who left then-18-year-old Valerie two months after the birth of their daughter. Campbell is biracial of Afro-Jamaican and Chinese Jamaican descent; her paternal grandmother was Han Chinese (family name Ming). Of her appearance, Campbell has said: "My features are completely ethnic, and I'm proud of them."

When 10 years old, she was accepted into the Italia Conti Academy stage school, where she studied ballet. she attended Dunraven School, a comprehensive school run by Inner London Education Authority in Streatham.

Campbell's first public appearance came aged 7 in February 1978 when she was cast as a pupil to appear in a music video for Bob Marley's song Is This Love?. In 1982, she appeared in another music video, this time as a tap dancer for Culture Club's I'll Tumble 4 Ya.

When she was 15 years and while still a student at the Italia Conti Academy, Campbell was spotted by Beth Boldt, a former Ford model and head of the Synchro model agency, while window-shopping in Covent Garden. Aged 15 in April 1986, Campbell appeared on the cover of Elle, replacing a model who had canceled out of the appearance.

Legal troubles

Campbell often got a legal problem she overcoming 10 times legal problem and the last facing was on April 3, 2008 Campbell was arrested at Heathrow's Terminal 5. A police statement suggests the model was held on suspicion of assaulting a police officer.

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