Iman is reflecting on the racism that she encountered after moving to the U.S. to begin her career as a model. While appearing on the latest episode of Naomi Campbell’s “No Filter” YouTube show, the 65-year-old supermodel discussed her first experiences of discrimination.
RELATED: Iman Says She’ll Never Marry Again After Husband David Bowie’s Death: ‘This Was My True Love’ Iman, who grew up in Somalia before moving to New York in 1975, recalled, “My first experience [of racism] was seeing the discrepancies in pay between white models and Black models.
My rate was different to white girls – it was an unspoken rule.” The runway star decided to go on strike for three months as a protest against the discrepancy.
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