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In the 70s, Beverly Johnson was one of larger models Around the world, and this year, it celebrates the 50th anniversary of becoming the first black model to appear on the coverage of American Vogue . In a new interview with Page six , the 71 -year -old man looked at his debut in the fashion industry, including the lengths to which she and her model colleagues went to get and stay thin. According to Johnson, they were "led to believe that cocaine was not addictive" and regularly used the drug to complete their dangerous diets.

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"We did not know that cocaine was addictive," Johnson said Page six of herself and other models of her time. "Everyone used drugs at the time, but this particular drug for models was used because we did not eat. I remember eating two eggs and a bowl of brown rice per week. In a cabin, and I would say to shoot because I have to get a bag of M&M. I would stop and I would get the Shakes. "

Johnson said the models were then congratulated by other members of the industry for this behavior. "We did not eat, and each time you came to work, they said:" Yes! Chisel to the bone girl. Yes ", as congratulating you," she said. "No one really told you the truth."

She explained that she had started to achieve what she had done to her body when her mother looked in a three -time mirror after she took a bath. "It was the first time I saw my bones watching me," said Johnson. "It was a great alarm clock for me." AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Johnson talked about his diet and his drug use in his 2015 Memoirs The face that has changed everything . "I was not eating anything, zero," she wrote ( via People ). "I drank black coffee, a sip of broth if things became hard, and in the evening, a glass of champagne like a rabbit. More fabulous you were."

She said Hello America at the time of the release of his book which She wanted to write about her experience Help people understand "the dangers of drugs". She shared to become sober: "I found sobriety in a 12 -step program and I found sobriety with a spiritual path that I started to continue, and also with the strength of my daughter and my Family and also just want to have the life I have always wanted and the life I think I deserved. "

But while she has been sober for 5o, the effects of this era of her life persist. "As a model, you had to be a hanger. You could be 90 pounds and chise the bone, and they loved you for it. You couldn't get too thin , "Johnson, who features in a new show by a single woman, Beverly Johnson in vogue, said The New York Times in a recent interview. She explained that she was still fighting on the body dysmorphia that she developed at that time. "I'm in therapy throughout my life. Right now, I think I'm fat," she said.

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