eCancerAwareness.com » Naomi Sims http://ecancerawareness.com Raising awareness about cancer and healthy living Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:29:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Supermodel Naomi Sims Dies of Breast Cancer http://ecancerawareness.com/cancer-news/supermodel-naomi-sims-dies-of-breast-cancer/ http://ecancerawareness.com/cancer-news/supermodel-naomi-sims-dies-of-breast-cancer/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:44:20 +0000 Admin http://ecancerawareness.com/?p=292 Naomi Sims, one of the first black supermodels died this past weekend at the age of 61, losing her fight with breast cancer. Sims broke color barriers in the late 1960s and became known for her participation in the “Black is Beautiful” movement. She quit modeling in the early 1970s and later launched a successful wig collection, followed by a cosmetics line.

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