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Daily Inspiration Quote by Naomi Campbell

"Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing"

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Naomi Campbell’s power has always been control: of a runway, a gaze, a narrative. That’s why this quote lands with the quiet force of someone choosing a different kind of command. The sentence is unpolished, almost breathless, and that’s the point. It reads like a person talking in real time, not a brand delivering a slogan. In a culture that expects celebrities to either overshare or sanitize, Campbell threads the needle with something rarer: practical intimacy.

The intent is clear: to acknowledge support without turning vulnerability into spectacle. She anchors the story not in drama, but in a directive her friends offered: keep caring for yourself. That line functions as both permission and boundary. It reframes whatever “this” is - a crisis, a diagnosis, a personal disruption - away from gossip fuel and toward maintenance. Not triumph. Not collapse. Management.

The subtext speaks to how survival actually works in high-performance worlds. Modeling is built on relentless external evaluation, where “interference” is treated like failure and self-care is often marketed as aesthetics rather than necessity. Campbell’s friends, notably “in the same program,” suggest a context of structured recovery or mutual accountability: a community that understands that ambition and healing aren’t competing storylines, they’re concurrent obligations.

She’s also quietly rejecting the myth of the lone icon. The most important thing isn’t her fame, her grit, or her comeback; it’s the insistence that the work includes taking care of herself. In 2026, that reads less like a platitude and more like a hard-won strategy.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Campbell, Naomi. (2026, January 16). Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yes-i-did-and-a-lot-of-my-friends-who-are-in-the-86463/

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Campbell, Naomi. "Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yes-i-did-and-a-lot-of-my-friends-who-are-in-the-86463/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yes-i-did-and-a-lot-of-my-friends-who-are-in-the-86463/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.

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

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