Born the last of three children in 1948, Naomi, like most models was osctracized as a teenager because of her height 5'10 at thirteen years of age. Lanky and lean, she never let the bullying stymie her aspirations of studying fashion at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology or studying psychology at New York University. That same sense of self-worth allowed her to not accept the so-called modeling experts who said she was too dark to be a model. Instead, she bypassed them and went straight to the source: Gosta Peterson, then a top photographer for The New York Times magazine who agreed to photograph her. That test ended up on the cover of the 1967 fall fashion edition of The New York Times magazine.
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