Naomi Campbell's Model Marriage?

Though her reps deny it, the catwalker claims to have married boyfriend Enrique Palacio

By Julie Keller Sep 06, 2002 12:45 AMTags
Naomi Campbell is officially off the market.

Maybe.

The moody catwalker apparently walked the aisle with her twentysomething model boyfriend Enrique Palacio. At least that's what the supermodel reportedly told Italian magazine Chi after she and her beau were spotted cruising the canals of Venice last week, sporting shiny new rings on their fingers.

But don't break out the rice just yet. A rep for the British supermodel says she is "shocked" by the announcement and knows nothing about the nuptials.

Besides, Campbell, 32, apparently has a habit of saying she is married and/or engaged to all of her boyfriends.

Six years ago, she flashed paparazzi a diamond ring from then-boyfriend Luca Orlandi. She later fled the wedding of fellow supermodel Eva Herzigova in order to "go home to my husband." She also dated actor Robert De Niro and sported a diamond engagement ring throughout their relationship, and she announced plans to wed U2 bass player Adam Clayton during their fling. She was also spotted with a giant rock while out with Italian film mogul Gianni Nunnari, but he was already married to somebody else.

None of those "marriages" or "engagements" ever turned out to be exactly true. But that is easily explained by the fact that calls all her boyfriends "my husband" if she loves them, according to her publicist.

Whether in wedded bliss or not, the Campbell and her Italian studmuffin are currently holed up in Italy, keeping a low profile after stopping by the Venice Film Festival.

When it comes this to marriage stuff, it seems supermodels are notoriously flighty, so Campbell's behavior isn't all that strange.

Her good pal Claudia Schiffer, for example, secretly exchanged vows with her British film producer boyfriend Matthew Vaughn in May. Schiffer has three broken engagements under her belt, including a six-year plan to marry magician David Copperfield. And when she finally got hitched, the leggy German babe kept mum on her wedding details and tried to throw off photographers the day of the ceremony by wrapping herself in blankets so they couldn't get a glimpse of her in full wedding-gown regalia.

In March, Christy Turlington announced she had scuttled her engagement to actor-director Edward Burns. They were originally supposed to have been married last October but postponed the ceremony in the wake of the 9-11 attacks.

And Aussie Swimsuit Issue queen Elle Macpherson has decided to scrap the marriage thing altogether and recently announced she was preggers with her second child by boyfriend Arpad Busson. They couple already has a four-year-old son named Flynn.