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Super model Naomi Campbell has revealed that she looks up to former South African president Nelson Mandela for inspiration when times get tough for her.
The British beauty has formed a close bond with Mandela since their meeting in early 1990s and he fondly refers to her as his "honorary granddaughter".
She says his fight for freedom during South Africa's apartheid gives her the strength to overcome her troubles, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
"I have to pinch myself sometimes because who in the world doesn't want to know Nelson Mandela? But I've been extremely blessed to have been in his presence many times...He's someone who I often think about when things get tough and life isn't full of roses. Nothing can be as hard as what he went through," she said.
"Now, I don't have his constitution for forgiving. I hope one day to acquire that. But I don't hold grudges either. When things happen, I just kind of want to move away from them for a while and hope that things will come back in a more positive light," she said.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell has sparked wedding rumours after booking a month long "honeymoon" with boyfriend, Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin.
The 39-year-old model has booked a luxury holiday which will cost a whopping 1 million pounds and she is calling it a honeymoon, reported Sun online.
"The honeymoon planned to end just before Christmas, is costing close to 1 million pounds because they will only use private jets and stay at the best hotels," said a source close to the couple.
Rumours, that the English supermodel will be marrying Doronin, known as Russia's Donald Trump, have been doing the rounds ever since she moved to Russia earlier this year to set up house with the business tycoon.
The couple first met at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and attended the star-studded A-List birthday dinner held for the legendary South African leader Nelson Mandela. Soon after, the pair became inseparable, famously vacationing on Vladislav Doronin�s yacht off St Tropez in the South of France last summer in clear view of the paparazzi.
Once an anti-fur activist, supermodel Naomi Campbell is set to ignite a debate after posing naked - with just a Russian sable fur.
The 39-year-old catwalk queen has reportedly posed in a coat made from Russian sable in an advert for a luxury New York furrier Dennis Basso, reports the Daily Express.
She had once famously declared she would rather go naked than wear fur, however, Campbell backtracked when PETA targeted designers.
"I felt that they went too far and I thought, I didn't want to be a part of this campaign any more," she said at the time.
Campbell has been branded a hypocrite by Sir Paul McCartney's ex-wife Heather Mills, 41. But Basso said: "Women who want something beautiful are only �interested in the final product."
Supermodel Naomi Campbell was ordered to do 200 hours of community service for assaulting two police officers trying to eject her from a plane after a foul-mouthed tirade over lost luggage.
The 38-year-old runway diva faced being sent to prison for up to six months and fined a maximum of 5,000 pounds on each of the three assault charges she faced.
Instead, Campwell was sentenced at Uxbridge magistrates court to the community service -- equal to working five 40-hour weeks -- to be carried out within 12 months for lashing out at the captain of the British Airways jet and police with a barrage of abuse and spitting.
She was also told to pay 200 pounds each to the two officers, 150 pounds to the captain -- all of whom she accused of targeting her because she was black -- and fines totalling 2,300 pounds.
Last year Campbell did five days of community service in a New York City sanitation warehouse for having thrown a mobile phone at a housemaid and was ordered to undergo anger management therapy.
Her clashes with the law do not appear to have damaged her career -- shortly before her sentencing Friday, French fashion house Yves Saint Laurent announced she would front its autumn-winter 2008-2009 advertising campaign.
Her lawyer said she was "genuinely apologetic" for the incident, which happened when her flight to Los Angeles was about to leave Heathrow's brand-new Terminal Five, where problems with the baggage handling had caused chaos.
Judge Peter Yiacoumi said her sentence took into account her guilty pleas and previous good character.
"These offences are aggravated because they were committed within a lengthy incident in a confined space on an aircraft," he said.
"Whilst we accept that the loss of your suitcase would have been stressful your subsequent behaviour cannot be justified."
Earlier, prosecutor Melanie Parrish told the court that Campbell had initially been friendly and professional when she boarded the flight on a first-class ticket.
But she became irate after Captain Miles Sutherland told passengers that take-off could be delayed because problems that dogged the first two weeks after Terminal 5 opened meant that not all the luggage had been loaded.
She was told one of her bags -- containing an Yves Saint Laurent outfit that she was contracted to wear on a US chat show -- was not on board.
When Sutherland came out of the cockpit to explain the situation and outline what steps she could take, Campbell flew into a rage, ordering him to find the bag himself.
"To say that this process was difficult would be something of an understatement. Miss Campbell made no attempt to listen to him and talked over him, stating, 'I don't want to hear'," Parrish said.
The model was then heard to utter an expletive on her mobile phone, adding "get me another flight, get the press, get me my lawyer."
She then shouted at Sutherland: "How dare you tell me what my options are?" ordering him to find her bags.
As he walked away, the model added: "You are a racist. You wouldn't be doing this if I was white."
Concerned cabin crew called police but Campbell refused to move, despite being warned four times she was going to be forcibly ejected.
Parrish said that as one police officer reached forward to try to take Campbell's arm, the model "went berserk, thrashing her arms around uncontrollably", hitting the officer on the arm with her phone.
The officer's colleague was then kicked in the thigh by Campbell's stiletto-heeled boots in a struggle that forced the only other first-class passenger to move to the staff kitchen for safety, she said.
Campbell then spat on a policeman, prompting him to arrest her for assault, Parrish said.
She became more violent as they tried to remove her, shouting "don't touch me", kicking out and telling the officers: "It is because I am a black woman. You are all racists. I am going to sue you."
Campbell's spokesman Alan Edwards said after the case: "She is very, very relieved it is over and she has been treated fairly."
Naomi Campbell has accused British Vogue of snubbing her because she is black, despite gracing its cover eight times.
The supermodel joined other black style icons - including Iman, Andre Leon Talley and Tracy Reese - on the panel of the Blacks in Fashion event on Friday, where she claimed the magazine has repeatedly refused to put her on their cover.
Naomi said: "I've never been on the cover of British Vogue and I've asked a million times and they've always refused me.
"They'll put the same white model for half the year, I swear like six times, but wouldn't put me on once in my own country. But I still want my British Vogue cover!"
Despite her claims, Naomi has been on the cover of British Vogue eight times since 1987 - twice with other models, once with hip-hop mogul P. Diddy and five times on her own.
The 37-year-old catwalk queen also claims she has struggled to get ahead in the fashion industry because of her ethnic origin.
She said: "The only time they care about black models is in February because it is Black History Month.
"Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington would go to big designers and say, 'If you don't pick Naomi to be in your show, then I don't want to be in it.' That's how I got Prada and Helmut Lang.
"The only reason I got the cover of French Vogue was because Yves Saint Laurent called up and told them he'd pull his ads if they didn't. So of course I got the cover."
