Though she’s a model, able to convey all sorts of emotion with her body, her face, her posture, her stance, her smize (or lack thereof), off-duty, Naomi Campbell can’t exactly hide her emotions. And this comes across very clearly in her latest interview where, asked by Australian TV what she thought of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s US Vogue cover feature.
After faux-solemnly telling The Today Show, ‘I do not want to comment.’ She then broke into a cackle, before explaining that, ‘I’m a fashion model and I’ve been working for 28 years, and when you get a Vogue cover, it’s a build in your career, it’s a stepping stone to achieve that.’
When asked whether she therefore thought that Kimye didn’t deserve the cover, she claimed she would not comment further – that she’s ‘politically correct’ and will let Anna Wintour will do what she likes.
But all this really isn’t doing Naomi justice. You basically need to watch this video because there are no words in our grasp that could accurately describe thunderclouds of shade that Naomi’s just thrown at the reality star and her rapper/producer fiancé.
Maybe Naomi’s just annoyed that the feature is full of loads of Photoshopping gone weird, especially in the photo of Kanye taking a photo with his iPad of Kim taking a selfie of herself and baby North West (yep, we realise the Escherian befuddlement of that sentence). Or maybe she’s agog at some of the lines the pair have given out in their interview – eg Kim saying of Kanye’s proposal, ‘Literally, he is the most romantic person I’ve ever even heard of.’ Or Kanye claiming that, by using the entire bottom floor of their mansion as a wardrobe, they ‘have a walk-in house!’
Either way, there’s no love lost between Naomi and Kim – the only time they’ve ever been spotted in a photo together is in those spliced-down-the-middle ‘who wore it best’ images. But as for Naomi and Kanye? Well even the most rudimentary of Googling tells us that they used to be pals, at least as they both cuddled up to Boy George at the Amfar Cinema Against AIDS Gala in 2011. So there you go, Naomi’s happy to share a red carpet with him. But not the Vogue cover.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.