My baby girl is not adopted, she is my child and the best thing I’ve ever done, says Naomi Campbell, 51
NAOMI Campbell’s baby daughter has made her British Vogue debut at just nine-months old.
The supermodel, who became a mum last May aged 50, would not elaborate on the tot’s conception and simply said: “She wasn’t adopted – she’s my child.”
Naomi stunned her fans when she revealed she had become a mother for the first time last year in an Instagram post which she has since deleted.
She has now posed on the cover of the March edition of the fashion bible with her little girl and revealed how she kept her arrival so secret.
Naomi, 51, told : “I can count on one hand the number of people who knew that I was having her.
“But she is the biggest blessing I could ever imagine. It’s the best thing I’ve ever done.
“She’s a good girl: she sleeps very well, she hardly ever cries and I’m told she’s very alert for her age.
“She’s just started waving, which is fun. She laughs a lot. She’s almost talking.
“I think she might walk before she crawls. And she’s got six teeth already.”
And just like her fashionable mum, Naomi’s daughter has a wardrobe which most would envy.
She added: “She has a really nice closet thanks to so many designers and friends who have sent her some lovely things, but wow, kids grow fast, don’t they?
It was reported Naomi’s daughter was born by a surrogate but she has never elaborated on this, nor has she revealed the identity of the child’s father.
At the time The Sun revealed that pals claimed the father of Naomi’s tot was a multi-millionaire businessman living in New York.
Her baby news was kept so secret that it’s believed Naomi didn’t even tell her team of the news until just hours before the announcement.
This is the 67th time Naomi has graced the cover of Vogue and along with posing with her daughter, she opened up still modelling in her Fifties.
Speaking about walking for fashion houses Versace, Alexander McQueen, Balmain and Lanvin this year, Naomi said: “I still enjoy it but it’s nerve-racking.
“I’m 51 years old walking with girls who are 18.”
Naomi said her drive as a young model came from being empowered by her fellow famous Nineties models Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington.
The foursome were the reason the term supermodels was coined and Naomi told Vogue she didn’t know if the stars of today could keep pace.
She added: “It was an incredible time, but we worked hard.
“We did eight shows a day and then we would go and celebrate with the designers in the evening. I wonder sometimes if models now could have kept up with us.”
In the March edition of the fashion bible, which is out February 22, Naomi also revealed she was proud of the diversity in the modelling industry now.
And she has herself become a mentor and mother figure to young models including Sudanese-Australian model Adut Akech, 22, and Somalian born beauty Ugbad Abdi, 21.
She said: “There were lots of times when I would walk in the fashion shows, but I was never picked for the ad campaigns and it would hurt – it really hurt.
“I would have to suck it up and keep moving.