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Black Former Supermodel Beverly Johnson Says 5-Star Hotels Would Drain Their Pools After She Would Swim! (Live Broadcast)

by Tj Sotomayor January 21, 2024 1 comment

Tiring!
By: Tommy “Tj” Sotomayor

I was online yesterday and of course I saw another black woman doing what black women do, which is complain.

This one was a privileged light skinned black woman by the name of Beverly Johnson! This woman like the rest of them complained about how whites that she never saw were treating her!

Just listen to the claims she makes that she says happened 50 years ago!

While celebrating the 50th anniversary of her historic 1974 Vogue cover, Beverly Johnson also recalls the racist moment when a 5-star hotel drained its swimming pool after she used it. The 71-year-old iconic supermodel, who broke barriers as the first Black model on the cover of Vogue, recently spoke with Page Six and recalled the moment, in which she first mentioned famed modeling agent Eileen Ford, who passed away at age 92 in 2014.
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Johnson said, “I did not know until we all went to the Eileen Ford’s 90th birthday party. All the models were there, and the very rich people, and one girl said to me, ‘Remember when they drained the pool?’ When you got in the pool at the so-and-so hotel? I was like, ‘They did?’ And she said, ‘You didn’t know that?’ This was during the ’80s, I would not say the name of the hotel because I don’t want to get sued. So you get a lot of that. People draining pools, it was racist. As a model, there were different kinds of things that would happen to me because I was Black.” Before her latest exclusive with Page Six, Beverly Johnson previously spoke on this incident back in July 2020.
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At the time, she was 67 and had written a wide-ranging editorial about race in PEOPLE Magazine. Johnson, who grew up in Buffalo, New York, recalled her first experience with racism as an adolescent and how it continued into her pioneering modeling career. She also noted that even 46 years later, there was still much more change that needed to be addressed in the fashion world. She stated that she was always “the only Black girl on every shoot” and that she had once modeled at a five-star hotel, that saw her taking a dip in the swimming pool as part of the shoot. She said, “All of a sudden, the editor came out and made everybody get out. They drained the pool. Twenty years later, one of the models told me it was because of me. But I had blocked it out. In order to survive, I would make myself not react. Like Teflon.”