Iman is looking at the time she started modeling in the United States and got real about how she was treated much differently than her white peers in the industry.
The 65-year-old model spoke to Naomi Campbell on her No Filter YouTube series and revealed that it wasn’t only about pay at that time, it was also about pitting Black models against each other and makeup artists not knowing what to do with anyone not white, as well. “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,” she recalled, before adding that she went on strike for three months as a protest. Iman continued, “If I’m doing the same job as a Caucasian
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