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Naomi Campbell to open chain of gyms
– Reported – October, 15 2013
Supermodel Naomi Campbell is set to launch a multi-million pound chain of fitness centres. The 43-year-old catwalk queen is looking at locations across London to open gyms with her personal trainer David Kirsch, reported Daily Star.
“Naomi will be stringent on who is accepted as a member. Each applicant will be asked to undergo a full health and fitness check to ensure they meet a strict criteria,” a source said. “Each applicant will be asked to undergo a full health and fitness check to ensure they meet a strict criteria,” it added.
Campbell, who is currently hosting her new modelling series `The Face` on Sky ?Living, is hoping to attract professional athletes and possibly footballers. “The facilities will be state of the art,” the source said.
Naomi Campbell is a British model. Discovered at the age of 15, she established herself among the top three most recognizable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and 1990s and she was one of six models of her generation declared “supermodels” by the fashion world. Her personal life is widely reported, particularly her relationships with prominent menincluding boxer Mike Tyson and actor Robert De Niroand several highly-publicised convictions for assault.
Campbell was born in Streatham, South London, the daughter of Jamaican-born dancer Valerie Morris. In accordance with her mother’s wishes, Campbell has never met her father, who abandoned her mother when she was four months pregnant and was unnamed on her birth certificate. She took on the surname Campbell from her mother’s second marriage. Her half-brother, Pierre, was born in 1985. Campbell is of Afro-Jamaican descent, as well as of Chinese Jamaican ancestry through her paternal grandmother, who carried the family name Ming.
During her early years, Campbell lived in Rome, where her mother worked as a modern dancer. Following their return to London, she was left in the care of relatives while her mother travelled across Europe with the dance troupe Fantastica. From the age of three, Campbell attended the Barbara Speake Stage School, and at ten years old, she was accepted into the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, where she studied ballet.
In 2011, Campbell appeared with Liya Kebede and Iman on the cover of the fortieth-anniversary issue of Essence. She also starred as Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon in the band’s music video for “Girl Panic!”, with Cindy Crawford, Helena Christensen, Eva Herzigova, and Yasmin Le Bon portraying the other band members; they appeared in the November edition of British Harper’s Bazaar in an editorial titled “The Supers vs. Duran Duran”.
Campbell performed with Kate Moss and other supermodels in the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games, where they modelled haute couture to represent British fashion. Campbell wore a design by Alexander McQueena staggered hem gown with a train speckled with flecks of gold. In 2013, she served as a coach and judgealong with Karolina Kurkova and Coco Rochaon Oxygen’s modelling competition reality show The Face, hosted by photographer Nigel Barker. Campbell is set to star in a British version of The Face, which will air on Sky Living in late 2013.