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Daily Inspiration Quote by Naomi Campbell

"The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath"

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Campbell turns potential humiliation into a controlled anecdote, and that control is the point. A skirt dropping to the ankles is slapstick on paper, but in fashion - where the body is both product and battleground - it’s a high-stakes wardrobe malfunction. Her phrasing is blunt, almost tossed off, like gossip shared backstage: the worst happened, but it didn’t get to define the moment.

The pivot on "but" does the real work. Thick tights aren’t just a practical save; they’re a quietly strategic buffer between exposure and dignity. Campbell is signaling professionalism in an industry that fetishizes effortless perfection while engineering constant risk: tiny samples, quick changes, punishing schedules, and the expectation that women absorb any mishap with a smile. The tights become a kind of armor, a reminder that survival in glamour often depends on invisible preparation.

There’s also a sly recalibration of what counts as "worst". For most people, a skirt falling is embarrassing; for a supermodel, the nightmare isn’t clumsiness, it’s unwanted visibility, loss of control over the image, the possibility of being reduced to a viral moment before the internet even needed one. Campbell’s understatement reads as seasoned: she’s not dramatizing vulnerability, she’s managing it. In one sentence, she exposes the mechanics of a career built on display - and the quiet measures taken to keep that display from becoming exploitation.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Campbell, Naomi. (2026, January 15). The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-worst-was-when-my-skirt-fell-down-to-my-79935/

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Campbell, Naomi. "The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-worst-was-when-my-skirt-fell-down-to-my-79935/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-worst-was-when-my-skirt-fell-down-to-my-79935/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Naomi Campbell (born May 22, 1970) is a Model from United Kingdom.

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