Fine and Landi ; She Exudes the Innocent Beauty of a Young Brigitte Bardot, but South African Model Landi Swanepoel has a Mind of Her Own. She Tells Karyn Miller Why She Considers Naomi Campbell 'Spoilt' and Elle Macpherson 'Ridiculous'

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Really, models these days have no respect for their elders. According to the up-and-coming Landi Swanepoel, supermodel Naomi Campbell is 'spoilt', and as for the troubled Elle Macpherson, well, 'She is ridiculous!' And Landi won't let up: 'I think it is time for Naomi to take a look at herself,' she says. 'But I suppose that when nobody ever says, "No" to you, you become used to it.' When Macpherson was admitted to rehab suffering from postnatal depression, industry sources claimed that The Body, now 39, was crumbling under the pressure to maintain her youthful looks. 'Oh, get real!' snorts Landi, rolling her big, blue eyes.

'Elle is nearly 40, still struggling to be a size six, and she says, "It's like there's this competition as to who can lose weight the quickest after a baby". Honestly she is such a beautiful woman, but if she looks at herself in such a way, she shouldn't be doing this job.

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Fine and Landi ; She Exudes the Innocent Beauty of a Young Brigitte Bardot, but South African Model Landi Swanepoel has a Mind of Her Own. She Tells Karyn Miller Why She Considers Naomi Campbell 'Spoilt' and Elle Macpherson 'Ridiculous'

'Will I still have my 22-inch waist when I'm Elle's age?' she muses. 'I doubt it. And I'm not going to work hard to maintain it when I don't need to.' Landi has plenty to say for herself, even though she concedes, with good humour, that, 'As a model you aren't supposed to have a voice.' But as outspoken as she is, the model...

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