Model Beverly Johnson Revealed That A Pool Was Once Drained After a Fashion Shoot Because Of Her

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Beverly Johnson is speaking out about some of the racist acts that have been against her in her long modeling career.

The 67-year-old model spoke with People in their new issue and recalled one instance where after a fashion shoot, a pool was drained because of the fact she was Black. “What you have to realize is that I was the only Black girl on every shoot,” Beverly shared. “Once in the 1970s, we were at a five-star hotel.

I got into the pool. And all of a sudden, the editor came out and made everybody get out.” She says straight to the point that “they drained the pool.” “Twenty years later, one of the models told me it was because of me.