Naomi Campbell's sweeping beauty fear

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Naomi Campbell says community service almost ruined her looks.

The British supermodel - who was sentenced to work at New York's sanitation department for throwing a mobile phone at her former housekeeper - was terrified five days of sweeping and cleaning had taken their toll on her face.

Naomi wrote in The Naomi Diaries for US W magazine: "I start to feel the wear and tear of the week. I see bags under my eyes. I think, 'Oh my god. I need a good night's sleep.'

The 36-year-old admits she was also shocked to discover many of her community service co-workers had never left the US.

She said, "Two of the people in the room have never been on a plane. They ask me what it's like and I'm embarrassed to tell them I was on seven planes the week before alone."

Naomi also revealed her addictive personality got her hooked on sweeping during her community service.

She wrote in one diary entry, "I keep on sweeping. I'm moving so fast they tell me to slow down. I'm getting very protective of my pile of rubbish - kind of the way I feel about my Hermès handbag. I keep looking around to make sure no one is crossing into the area I was assigned to sweep.

"I guess that's my all-or-nothing behaviour again. Once I start sweeping, I have to sweep everything."

The fiery-tempered model admits she started taking drugs when she was 23 to deal with being thrust into the fashion industry at such a young age.

She said: "I started taking drugs to escape or deal with some disaster, like when someone died. I lost a lot of friends in 1997, and that was the year I really fell down emotionally."

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