Helen Williams Life Story Final Full Version

foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] Helen Williams from Riverton New Jersey at an early age she showed a great Obsession for fashion and even began sewing her garments at seven at 17 personalities such as Lena Horne and Sammy Davis Jr began to notice her work and urged her to pursue fashion and modeling Williams worked exclusively with Ebony and Jet magazines she found successful modeling for famous designers Christian Dior and Jean disease I really don't know it's I see other people doing it and I said maybe I can do it too and then all of a sudden I saw people going into different places and I thought I'll try it and all of a sudden I just [Music] found somebody from the studio and they liked what I wanted to do and and that's where I started how was your experience in that regard as far as modeling and magazines I didn't really think about it you know I am who I am and I don't go and try to be dismiss cute so so but you are cute I did not say I was if you were to call me that fine foreign people are very very nice there first of all and it was like an excited it was really exciting for me to be there at that time and the people were very nice to me and they have some nice people there polite two white journalists Dorothy kilgelin and Earl Wilson wrote about her cause ultimately bringing attention to the exclusion of black models within the modeling and fashion industry suddenly doors began to open and Williams started getting to work she was booked for various jobs for Brands such as Budweiser Loom talks Sears and modes which crossed over for the first time into the mainstream press and periodicals such as the New York Times life and red book by 1961 her hourly rate had shot up to 100 an hour I'm just the same as you are oh yeah I got dark clever and I keep on going and talking and they don't bother me and now I have no attitude or anything [Music] another way especially in went out to Paris I always came out of America everybody says oh man what a beautiful woman that is everything I just like everybody up on a woman in the place I enjoyed myself because people just didn't pick at you and they oh who is she it was what a wonderful person she is because I don't act stupid or anything I would just explain me [Music] you know because it's what's the sense of those someplace in this try to be as a big shot I was just me and I'm still me and you don't like me walk out the door [Music] and be polite to people first of all and you meet people you talk to people and that's all I did I was me I don't go in try to be I miss uh I'm just Helen Williams and I like you or I don't like you but usually I like everybody because I try to be nice to people which I hope they're nice to me [Music] go and acting I'm I'm so and so that's not me I'm a type of person I think I believe it I am I like to talk to people and I don't act give my attitude because that's not gonna help me so I try to be very friendly very nice to people that's how I just got through the whole Studios and mean people and I don't like to be thinking I'm better than anybody else I am me and if you like me there's a door and that's me

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Published: Mon Mar 06 2023