Naomi Campbell is opening up about her life as a single mom and candidly addressing how she became a mother later on in life. In a new interview with The Sunday Times , the British model, 54, confirmed for the first time that she used a surrogate to welcome her daughter, 3, and her son, 11 months, at the ages of 51 and 53, respectively. "My babies are everything to me.
It's made me fear for the future," Campbell told the outlet, going on to confirm she used a surrogate to have her two children. "I did. I hope for a better world for my children.
" Campbell continued, "They are 110 percent my priority. I have to be there for them on their first day at school." The self-proclaimed "single mum of a single mum" also told the Times that despite her prolific career and her own successes in the modeling business, she hesitates to put her kids in the spotlight so young.
"I'm not sure I would let her start working at 15. It's a ruthless world," Campbell told the Times . The model and philanthropist has never publicly revealed her children's names and -- like many other celebs in Hollywood these days -- has done her best to keep her kids' faces off social media and maintain a semblance of privacy for them.
The major exception would be her British Vogue cover in 2022 when she posed with her daughter in her arms, still keeping her daughter's face obscured. At the time, she told Vogue , "She [my daughter] wasn't adopted – she's my child..
.But she is the biggest blessing I could ever imagi.
