Naomi Campbell has confirmed that she welcomed both her children via surrogate after becoming a mother for the first time in 2021 aged 50 and posed with the newborn on the cover of Vogue.
The supermodel, now 54, shocked the world when she announced the surprise birth her daughter followed by a son in 2023, both of who’s names the catwalk queen has not made public.
Naomi previously admitted that her daughter, three, wasn’t adopted before now clarifying that she hadn’t been pregnant herself as she discussed how much her children mean to her.
Telling The Times: ‘My babies are everything to me. It’s made me fear for the future’.
Naomi went on to explain that she was never looking for a father for her kids and happy being ‘a single mother of a single mum’.
When asked whether she used a surrogate the model replied: ‘I did. I hope for a better world for my children. They are 110 per cent my priority. I have to be there for them on their first day at school.’
Her daughter’s arrival sparked widespread speculation that she used a surrogate, a popular approach among older celebrity mothers, because she was not spotted with an obvious baby bump in the months leading up to the birth.
Naomi also spoke of her concern that younger generations are not interested in having children and she insisted parenthood is always ‘worth it’, no matter how difficult the circumstances.
Saying: ‘I have heard a lot of young girls saying that it is too expensive to have children and they may not want them, and I have said, “You will change your mind. You will want to be a mum”‘.
‘I understand economically it is tough. But my mum had nothing and she made it work. It’s worth it. It is so amazing’.
She continued: ‘We have to depend on the younger generation to change this world. I trust my children more than us to do the right thing.’
Elsewhere in the interview, she revealed that she won’t let her daughter go into the world of work at 15 like she did, after starting her own career in her teenage years when she did her first cover shoot.
The beauty, who was whisked abroad to model in her first photoshoot for Elle in New Orleans aged 15, said she would be uncomfortable with her now two-year-old to start working so young.
The mother-of-two said: ‘I’m not sure I would let her start working at 15. It’s a ruthless world.’
Friends recently dismissed reports of a romance between the model and her close pal Mohammed Al Turki.
Al Turki (‘Mo’ to his friends) is the boss of the Red Sea Film Festival. He accompanied Naomi to the BAFTAs in London in February, and the pair were seen holding hands on the night.
She has also been spotted wearing an enormous diamond ring.
However a dear friend of Naomi told the Mail: ‘It isn’t a romance – all her friends know that he is actually in love with another model and in a settled relationship with them. Naomi is single and focuses on her children and her sobriety.’
The British star was previously engaged to U2 bassist Adam Clayton in 1993, and was then also engaged to Italian businessman Flavio Briatore before they split in 2002.
Naomi was last in a relationship with rapper Skepta in 2018 but enjoyed a fling with One Direction’s Liam Payne the following year.
She has also enjoyed high-profile relationships with the likes of Diddy, Robert De Niro, Gerard Butler, Terrence Howard, Mike Tyson and Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin over the years.
Although she is notoriously private about her love life, the star has previously stated she is ‘on good terms’ with her exes and is not known to be dating anyone at present.
In a rare interview about her love life in 2021, Naomi said: ‘The sacrifice is really finding that soulmate who will understand you.
‘It’s really like you feel if they look at you as if you’re strong . . . I’m strong, but I’m also sensitive. I know that in relationships I have to compromise.’
