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Jan. 16, 2024 – Beverly Johnson says she got hooked on drugs in the 1970s after living on a diet of cocaine, a bowl of rice and two eggs a week in an attempt to become stick-thin. The supermodel — who is celebrating the 50th anniversary of becoming the first Black woman to appear on the cover of Vogue — told Page Six that she took the appetite-killing drug after fashion industry insiders encouraged her to look “chiseled to the bone” for photo shoots.
“We were led to believe that cocaine was not addictive. We didn’t know cocaine was addictive. Everyone used drugs back in the day but that particular drug for models was used because we did not eat,” Johnson told us, “I remember eating two eggs and a bowl of brown rice a week. I would be shaking in a cab, and I would say pull over because I have to get a bag of M&Ms.”
