Naomi Campbell using fame to help others

LONDON - Supermodel Naomi Campbell, who is at the forefront of the Fashion for Relief campaign to help Haiti, has spoken out on how she learnt to use her fame to help others.

Campbell, 39, said Nelson Mandela told her in 1992 that she should use her celebrity status to help others but “at 22 years old I didn’t really quite understand what that meant”.

The model said she had “quietly” worked with charities for many years and only supported causes she felt passionate about.

“My whole generation of girls, we never thought about celebrity, didn’t enter our vocabulary. We just liked our jobs, liked working, liked travelling the world,” the Mirror quoted her as aying. (ANI)