Iman moved to New York Metropolis after being provided a modeling gig. All of it started when she was in Kenya and was approached by photographer Peter Beard, who requested if she was ever photographed. “I mentioned, ‘After all I have been photographed.’ And he mentioned, ‘By whom?’ And I mentioned, ‘My mother and father.’ He mentioned, ‘No, no, no, I am speaking skilled.’ And all I may consider was my brother’s Playboy and I mentioned, ‘I am not that woman,'” she advised TODAY. Ultimately, they struck an settlement, and he took photographs of her for $8,000, which helped her pay for tuition at her native college. After Beard used her photograph in an exhibition, he invited her to come back to New York, the place she jumpstarted her modeling profession in 1975, per W Journal.
