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Naomi Campbell poses at the NBC Universal TCA Winter Press Tour on Jan. 7.
PASADENA - Supermodel Naomi Campbell, whose self-confidence has rarely been questioned in recent years, said Monday it all goes back to Boy George.
At a TV critics panel for "The Face," a new Oxygen-TV show in which Campbell and fellow supermodels Karolina Kurkova and Coco Rocha mentor young women aspiring to get into the model game, the three were asked at what moment they realized they were beautiful.
"I think when I thought that I didn't look too bad," said Campbell, "is when I was a huge Culture Club fan, and I used to get like hats and stick on with cello tape all the braids so I'd look like Boy George. And that's when I thought I was okay."
Kurkova said she grew up feeling so tall and awkward that she never wore dresses or smiled.
"So really for me (the was) this whole fashion industry, modeling world coming to me when I was 15 and working with Steven Meisel," Kurkova said, "and somebody saying, 'Wow, you have beautiful teeth. You have a beautiful smile. You should smile. And you have gorgeous legs. You should show your legs.'
"Little things like that to a girl who is 15 years old means the world."
"One thing is kind of fascinating about models," Rocha said. "Most of us were the dorky, nerdy kid in school, probably didn't not everyone, but a huge percentage of us.
"No one liked you. Boys didn't want to date you. I was an Irish dancing nerd."
Even when she's showered with compliments now, said Rocha, "Sometimes you still go, 'Wow, really? That's so fascinating because here I am that girl, still that girl inside that feels like I'm still that dancing nerd.' "
Her breakthrough, she said, didn't come until she was 18 and dating the boy she eventually married.
She thought, she said, "This man actually likes me for who I am. It doesn't matter if I have the face of the season. It's just someone who likes me as me."
Campbell is executive producer of "The Face," which debuts Feb. 12.
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