Naomi Campbell covers WSJ magazine October issue where she opens up about her addiction and struggles in the modeling industry

Supermodel, Naomi Campbell is the cover girl for the October issue of WSJ Magazine.

For this Month issue, the 49-year-old talks about her past drug addiction and the struggles she’s endured as a vanguard of the modeling industry in her accompanying interview.

On addiction: “I’m a survivor. I don’t have a squeaky-clean life, and I don’t pretend to. I was the first to say that I was an addict, and I’m so grateful to God to be a recovering addict and a recovering alcoholic.”

On managing her image and maintaining privacy: “The good thing with me is that you’d see me and you wouldn’t see me: I’d appear and I’d disappear. Traveling has saved my life in a certain way—I keep it very limited to who knows what [I’m doing] and where I’m going.”

On her relationship status,: “For me, privacy is important to know each other, and I always worry that my job will not allow that. But I have ways. I was taught that by Robert De Niro,” whom she dated in the early ’90s.

“Being alone doesn’t mean you are lonely. I don’t have time to be bored, and I don’t have time to be lonely.”

As for children, she says, “Not yet—I’ll see what the universe brings me. For now, what the universe has delivered is very much in the spirit of a “chosen family.”