Naomi Campbell

The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat.

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.

I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.

I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986.

When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

I like the men to wear the pants. I don't want to wear the pants. I like men who know what they want, know what they're doing, make their own decisions... As much as I like to be the controller, it's not in my best interest.

I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.

Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' - I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.'

I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.