Naomi Campbell
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Birth Name:
Naomi Campbell
Birth Place:
London, England
Ethnicity:
Jamaican and Chinese
The British Supermodel was born to a father of Black Jamaican ethnicity with part Chinese ancestry. Her paternal grandmother was said to be of Chinese ancestry, with the family name Ming. This was reported on the British newspaper, The Independent. Naomi had never met her biological father who left the family before she was born.
Her mother is of Black Jamaican heritage.
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January 26th, 2009
woW…unique. Sh3’s Beautyful
May 31st, 2009
Beautiful, yes. Part Chinese? I highly doubt it. It does say she never met her father, so how would she know what he is? Another black celebrity not wanting to accept “the blackness”.
June 18th, 2009
You are wrong Naomi is part-chinese. Her mother should know she gave birth to her. Anyways the chinese is evident. I also know a lot of jamaicans with Chinese ancestry who look like naomi.
June 18th, 2009
thats right Buzzcock. according to wiki there are quite a lot of Jamaicans with Chinese heritage. check out this page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Jamaican
A lot of them still have the Chinese surnames.
October 21st, 2009
plz, that lady is black
October 30th, 2009
Naomi Campbell is a black person. I agree with blueline.I t is unfortunate that when a black person become well known, to be accepted, they always want to deny that they are fully black. If you look at Ms Campbell without all the shading of her makeup, she has very big lips and a flat nose, which she shades with makeup to look smaller and without the weave, her hair is picky, nappy and short. Also she puts eyeliner around her eyes in a certain way to make her eyes look more oriental. As for being part Chinese I don’t think so. For a start, Noami’s mother did not know the father long enough to find out the hertitage of that side of the family. You can have a Chinese person in the family where the generations is many more timeS removed along the blood line, where the Chinese look will not show as the generations go by and I have looked at Ms Campbells face and I can not see any Chinese look in her. The woman is black, but she is deluded with her heritence and her looks. When since have you seen her without her weave and makeup, plus she is always going out with white men. Strip away her makeup and weave and Noami Campbell is really an ugly black woman.
October 31st, 2009
she is very ugly either way.
November 26th, 2009
Are you guys idiots!??
She’s obviously part Chinese! look at her!
My boyfirend is a Chinese-Jamaican (his mom is of Afro-Jamaican and Chinese ancestry and his dad is of Afro-Jamaican ancestry)!
He has dark skin and his Chinese features are still evident in his eyes.
Many Jamaicans can possibly have Chinese blood b/c thousands of Chinese workers were sent from Northern China to Jamaica for slavery (majority males) and they intermingled with the African female slaves. Today some Afro-Jamaicans may not show most of their Chinese features b/c many of the intermixing occured nearly 200 years ago!!!! duh
November 26th, 2009
Thats true. a lot of Chinese workers were sent to the Caribbean to work and many never returned to their homeland giving Jamaica a diverse mix.
December 2nd, 2009
i dont think so
December 3rd, 2009
Descendants of indentured servants of Asian and Chinese origin continue to reside in Jamaica today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Jamaican
December 29th, 2009
Yes there are a good portion of Jamaicans with Chinese ancestry, I know a couple personally who aren’t related.
January 4th, 2010
why is it that on every other african-american/mix celeb page there’s at least one person saying that the particular celebrity is trying to deny being black? black is a pretty dominant gene. one can look almost all or completely black yet still have mixed ancestry. get a grip, people. maybe you all have a hard time accepting that you’re all 100% something.
January 30th, 2010
I grew up & live in multi-ethnic Hawaii and Naomi IS DEFINITELY part Chinese It is very evident in her face–her cheekbones and eyeshape are strong clues. I would guess that on the low end she’s 1/16 to 1/8 Chinese, and at the most she’s about 1/4 Chinese. I used to wonder b4 if she had any asian, so now I know that she is and that her particular asian is Chinese. Also, I did not know about the Chinese connection to Jamaica so it’s great to know about that now!
January 31st, 2010
Jamaica is more diverse than many think.
February 1st, 2010
sometimes
March 15th, 2010
i’m so fed up with that … When black people are beautiful, media try to make them non black, overclaiming their non black side !! Naomi, despite of her “chinese” blood, has negroid features, including her eyes, her nose, her lips, and cheekbones !
For cry sakes i have thin eyes like chinese people, like every relative of my mother’s side, and no chinese blood believe me !!!! Maybe naomi has chinese blood, but its her black blood which make her so beautiful !!!!