Kenyan media personality Elsa Majimbo has opened up about her strained relationship with British supermodel Naomi Campbell.
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Elsa Majimbo and Naomi Campbell's strained friendship
In a now-deleted Tik Tok video, Elsa details everything about her relationship with Naomi Campbell, including when and how they met and why they broke up. .
According to Elsa in 2020, she and Naomi followed each other on social media and everyone around them knew that Naomi Campbell was her role model.
A few months later, Naomi was on vacation in Nairobi. At this time, Elsa sent a message asking to meet the supermodel, and Naomi Campbell agreed. Later, the Kenyan talent and Naomi met in Nairobi, where Naomi took her shopping with her brother. After shopping, Naomi invites Elsa to go on vacation with her.
While on vacation, Elsa discovers that Naomi Campbell has suggested that she make a documentary about her life in Kenya and her foray into Hollywood.
However, their relationship quickly took a left turn when Majimbo, without Naomi Campbell's knowledge, filmed a documentary about her experiences with discrimination and surviving as a woman of color. As a result, Elsa felt that Naomi Campbell had been left out, and she called Elsa Madjimba, who revealed about the documentary that she had expressed her anger that she had been left in the dark.
Despite trying to explain to Naomi that the documentary being made was not what the supermodel suggested, Naomi was still unimpressed with Elsa.
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“Now is the time to heal and be happy.”
Elsa described how things had deteriorated, noting in particular that Campbell had become increasingly hostile towards her, to the point where they had cut off communication.
A few months later, the Kenyan model attended an event where she revealed that she happened to meet the magazine editor at the time. british vogue, Edward Enninful. Elsa says that she realized in her conversation with Edward that her problems with Naomi Campbell could be a cause for criticism in the fashion industry.
“It was very difficult and scary for me to talk about the Naomi Campbell situation. But I don't want to be owned by anyone else and a lot of the big hits and blowbacks in my career have been due to my own incompetence. “I want to acknowledge that it was brought to me by another black woman,” Elsa shared in a now-deleted tweet.
Elsa also shockingly told how she became depressed and became an alcoholic at the age of 19 after a rift with Naomi.
“That's also from the age of 19. Because of her I became an alcoholic and I went into full-blown depression. Now it's time to heal and be happy,” Elsa said.
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