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" Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' - I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.' "

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" When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help. "

Naomi Campbell

Afraid

Help

" I have no regrets. I've got my health. "

" There is only going to be one Kate Moss. Kate is an icon. "

" The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat. "

" I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind. "

" The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath. "

" I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging. "

" I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.' "

Naomi Campbell

People

Think

" I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16. "

" When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then. "

" I work very hard and I'm worth every cent. "

" Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry. "

" I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough. "

" Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort. "

" Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person. "

" I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard. "

" I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down. "

" Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing. "

Naomi Campbell

Car

Friends

" Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works. "

" I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them. "

Naomi Campbell

Feel

Speak

" I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty. "

" I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out. "

" After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela. "

Naomi Campbell

First

Versace

" I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm. "

" My features are completely ethnic. "

Naomi Campbell

Ethnic

Features

" I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth. "

" I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986. "

" I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it. "

" I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it. "

" I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent. "