Naomi Campbell
Campbell in 2011, photo by Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Naomi Elaine Campbell
Place of Birth: Lambeth, London, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 22 May, 1970
Ethnicity: Jamaican [African, some Chinese, possibly other]
Naomi Campbell is a British model, actress, and singer. She is 5′10″.
Naomi was raised by her mother, Valerie (Morris), and has never met her biological father. Her surname, Campbell, is said to be from her mother’s re-marriage. Naomi has two children.
Naomi’s family is from Jamaica, and of mostly African descent. One of Naomi’s grandmothers was of Chinese or partial Chinese descent, and was said to have the surname Ming.
Naomi has also referred to a grandmother named Ruby Louise Campbell Russel.
Naomi spent part of her early childhood in Rome. Her mother was a member of the Fantastica dance troupe.
Campbell in 2008, Georges Biard, Wikimedia Commons
She does kinda of look chinese, not alot, but hey, look at Tiger Woods. No one’s fully black, white, mexican, asian, arabic, native american, or whatever you are anyways. The world’s like a freakin’ bag of skittles.
shut the f*ck up! all Whites of today are 10000000000000000000000% White, and Yellows too,.. Mexican is not a race.. and Blacks in the USA are not 10000000000000000000% Black but in Africa they are
To Me
You will have to deal with this,a large part of whites are not pure.There has been mixing since pale skin came along.Also Asians have been mixing,and black people in Africa have been to,with Asian and white for a long time now.All you have to do is look it up.
well to be honest everyone is ugly to someone, and everyone is beautiful etc. to someone.
@alive: if you’ve seen my numerous posts in this site, you could know that i’m the very last one to stick an ethnicity to someone just by looking. I don’t say that naomi can’t be part asian because she’s dark skinned, i just explain how media can manipulate ppl, insisting in her hypothetic non black side, but the real message through this statement is like: you can’t be considered one of the most beautiful woman in the world(or be successful) if you are totally black. You have to be at least part non black if you want to succed in life or just be respected. With that, why wouldn’t black ppl claim their 10% of this or 5% of that, just in order to escape the blackness. It’s so sad, im very glad to hear black celebs who say they’re black, because blackness never equal uglyness.
first of it doesn’t matter if she’s dark skinned, like im dark skinned but im not fully black im black Irish, German , Indian, and Cherokee native american. Just like shes black and Chinese but she’s from London just because she’s dark skinned don’t mean she can’t be from England dumb, and I know plenty of ppl that are Asian and black white and black Spanish and black Jamaican and Spanish ik lots of ppl that are dark or light and aren’t actually the race you think they are and also like Dominicans that look black but they parent so just because she dark don’t mean shes not any othe race or ethincity
Sorry I don’t recall Naomi saying that she wasn’t black! She is part Chinese – why is that such a problem? She has also stated her ancestry in newspapers. But did she say she was mixed race? No. I don’t get the problem. Why is it okay for a light skinned person to say that they are a quarter this or that, but oh no if a dark skinned person says they are – they want to deny their blackness? Naomi got where she is being black! I didn’t see them trying to make her any lighter in pics like a lot of celebs do.
and btw, he surname ming is not necessarily asian. I know some africans with the surname ming !!!!