"…I tell them the funny stories of the models trying to knock me off of the runway. They are laughing and giggling. I get them. Then we do a fashion show. I get them walking and strutting, and we have fun. Not only is it a fashion show, but we also talk about who they are and what they wish for. I’ll ask an 11-year-old girl to give me one of three wishes, and she’ll say, “That my mother believes me.” Heartbreaking. I would imagine it’s stemmed from some of the altercations in my life with abuse. I always tell them that I get more out of this than they do."
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On working with rape victims at the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children in “Beverly Johnson: ‘Always a Supermodel’ [INTERVIEW”] in Ebony magazine (2019 Sep 25)
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