{"id":5369,"date":"2019-02-25T02:15:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T02:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=5369"},"modified":"2019-02-25T02:15:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T02:15:41","slug":"painful-inside-last-moment-of-nigerias-first-super-model-yemi-fawaz-in-america-her-battle-pain-with-colon-cancer-at-new-yorks-lenox-hill-hospital-american-cardiologist-nephrologist-discove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/painful-inside-last-moment-of-nigerias-first-super-model-yemi-fawaz-in-america-her-battle-pain-with-colon-cancer-at-new-yorks-lenox-hill-hospital-american-cardiologist-nephrologist-discove\/","title":{"rendered":"PAINFUL: Inside last Moment of NIGERIA’S FIRST Super Model, YEMI FAWAZ in America…Her Battle, Pain with Colon Cancer at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital * American Cardiologist, Nephrologist discovered pioneer Nigerian model suffered hole in Heart and Kidney *Leads love international outreach to help less privilege *Challenged Advertising industries in Nigeria for ‘having sex with models’, paying them peanuts BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PAINFUL:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside last\nMoment of NIGERIA’S FIRST Super Model, YEMI FAWAZ in America…Her\nBattle, Pain with Colon Cancer at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\nAmerican Cardiologist, Nephrologist\ndiscovered pioneer Nigerian model suffered hole in Heart and\nKidney <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Leads love\ninternational outreach to help less privilege<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Challenged\nAdvertising industries in Nigeria for ‘having sex with models’,\npaying them peanuts <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\nGEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU in New York<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SHE\nWAS THE PACESETER of the Nigerian fashion industry, as a model and\nmajor stakeholder. She fought for good pay-raise for Nigerian\nmodels, ensured fashion designers earned the respect they duly\ndeserve, even in the world of arts. She created an international\noutreach love company that greatly assisted the less privileged. Her\ngreatest fight was against Colon Cancer, which she battled till she\nbreathed her last in an American hospital. YEMI FAWAZ was Nigeria’s\nfirst super model. <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fawaz died few\ndays ago, precisely 20th February at New York\u2019s Lenox Hill Hospital\nat the age of 64. She had been battling colon cancer for a while,\nbeen that she had a hole in her heart and her kidney had begun to\nfail her since last year. American\nCardiologist\nand Nephrologist who discovered this pioneer Nigerian model\nhad hole in Heart and Kidney had been treating her awhile. She\nbattled pain until she gave up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the records,\nFawaz started her modeling career and became a supermodel in the late\n70s. She established a modeling school and did a lot for the fashion\nindustry in Nigeria. She left Nigeria in 1997 when things were not\nworking out well for her and didn\u2019t return until 2016. She is\nsurvived by her 33-year-old daughter, Magdalene Oluwatobi Fawaz. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During\none of her reported last interviews in Nigeria, she said: \u201c<\/strong>I\nwas very surprised that the modeling industry has died down in\nNigeria. When there is no love, where there is no support, when\njealousy is more than achievement, things cannot work. I fought for\nyears in this country. I fought so much with the advertising\ncompanies to the extent that I became their enemy. The advertising\ncompanies blacklisted my company for years. I suffered in silence. My\nmodels walked away from me because they were not getting jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n On\nhow she fought Nigerian Advertising moguls that were having sex with\nmodels, she said \u201cAll these happened because I was always telling\nthem the way they were handling children was not good. A job that\ndeserved at that time N15,000, you will give them N10,000. Upon that,\nthey would still sleep with the models. It is the fault of the\nmodels. Everybody wants to be seen. But where are they today. God\nfought on my behalf. He knew I was fighting the battle for the sake\nof the up and coming ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI believe a Nigerian model should be earning N10 million now. Nollywood has taken over. If I was still here, I would be the one managing them. Some Nollywood actresses and actors deserve millions from their adverts but some people will go through the back door and collect peanuts. This is what destroys the industry. They refused to listen to me. I used to tell them that show business is for a short time. I guess I was the highest paid model back then. I was earning N10,000 to appear at any function. N10,000 at that time would buy you a Mercedes Benz.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n#Additional\nreports by Encomium \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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