Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell was spotted at fifteen while window-shopping in Covent Garden, London, after school. Within a few years she was one of the "supermodels" of the late 1980s and 1990s, alongside Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford. In 1988 she became the first Black model to appear on the cover of French Vogue, after the designer Yves Saint Laurent, a friend and supporter, reportedly threatened to pull his advertising if the magazine continued to avoid using Black models.

She was born on May 22, 1970, in Streatham, south London, at about one in the morning, a time taken from a news report. Her Sun had just entered Gemini, in the third house, with Mercury, retrograde, and Saturn, both in Taurus, there too. Gemini is quick, restless and changeable, and the third house concerns everyday movement and communication.

Gemini also holds Venus and Mars, which fall in her fifth house of glamour, pleasure and self-expression. Venus there gives charm and playfulness, and Mars adds restless energy. Campbell's runway walk, fast, fierce and confident, became legendary, and she has spoken about loving the performance of fashion shows.

Her Moon is in Sagittarius and occupies her tenth house, the most visible part of a chart. A Sagittarius Moon loves freedom, travel and adventure, and in the tenth it describes a public life lived internationally and in the spotlight. Campbell has lived a famously jet-set life, working in fashion capitals around the world for four decades.

Her mother, Valerie Morris, was a dancer, and Campbell has said she never knew her father. She studied at the Italia Conti stage school and appeared as a child in the music video for Bob Marley's "Is This Love." As a model she worked with nearly every major designer and photographer of her era.

Pluto in Virgo, retrograde, falls in her seventh house of relationships and open conflict. Pluto in the seventh describes intense, sometimes volatile relationships with others. Campbell's career has been shadowed by public confrontations and several legal cases involving assaults on employees, including a 2007 conviction in New York for which she performed community service.

Jupiter and Uranus in Libra sit in her eighth house of shared resources, suggesting a powerful network of wealthy and influential connections. In 2010 she was called to testify at the international war crimes trial of the former Liberian president Charles Taylor about a gift of diamonds she received after a dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela.

In 2021, at fifty, she announced the birth of a daughter, and in 2023 a son. In 2024 the Victoria and Albert Museum in London staged an exhibition dedicated to her career. The Gemini planets gave her the restless, magnetic energy; the Sagittarius Moon in the tenth house took it around the world.