New Alley Cat Fight Between Chanel Iman and Sessilee Lopez

Posted on September 27th, 2009 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Catch Fade, Naomi Campbell, News, Tyra Banks

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Just when we thought black model beef would take a backstage exit, it seems two new models in the game are having problems getting along. Chanel Iman and Sessilee Lopez have been getting into brawls at Fashion Week.

During London Fashion Week, critics were buzzing about how Chanel Iman’s boyfriend was accompanying her to every show.  While people assumed it was just love, others say it was because she was worried about fellow model Sessilee Lopez starting some mess.

Some say Sessilee is known for starting trouble and most recently had a tantrum backstage at a show and began throwing chairs at people. On the other hand, people say it was Chanel who started rumors about Sessilee because of her jealousy that Sessilee got the Italian Vogue cover and she didn’t.

Chanel and Sessilee are said to have had beef before London Fashion Week, but apparently that’s where it erupted. There is no reason for the beef that we know of but the two are known to not like each other.

Don’t tell us these two are the new age Tyra and Naomi… Damn, just when we thought we were on the come up.

  • germzy

    cant we all just get along

  • RhymeNrezun

    Who cares.

    Shut up and be pretty.

  • Backstage Babe

    Okay, it is widely known that Chanel Iman started the rumor about Sessilee throwing chairs backstage. If you’ve been backstage at a fashion show, you would know that you can’t throw a comb without hitting someone else and that it’s full of paparazzi so if she was throwing chairs there would be plenty of photos to back it up. I love how one blog writes something then other blogs pic it up and it now becomes fact – no such thing as responsible reporting anymore, huh?

    No they don’t get along and the real reason is because Chanel Iman became jealous when Sessilee got the cover of Italian Vogue and she didn’t! There you go! That’s how it started so don’t blame Sessilee, she’s the innocent one here but she’s from Philly and she ain’t going to take Chanel’s BS.

  • RhymeNrezun

    Oh what stressful lives they live. *insert sarcasm*

    Women are so damn catty its ridiculous. Be happy both you semi-attractive are working and earning a salary. Especially in a caucasian dominated field.

  • RhymeNrezun

    *semi-attractive women are….

  • http://www.castlehairstudio.com pistol whipped

    WHO?

  • Emma

    How old are thease women at least 18 right well they should be setting an example to the younger generation grow up ffs

  • beigelake

    Who cares…..

  • moonbeam…reflecting the light of the sun

    more bad grammar…smh were not we’re

  • http://urbanfrugalchic.com Khristal

    There are only a few blacks models sweeping the run ways…let’s work and encourage each other DAMN!

  • http://twitter.com/urbanfrugalchic Cynthia

    They are too pretty to beef LOL

  • Cat

    I guess this really is your typical gossip site. THIS INFO IS COMPLETELY FALSE. There is absolutely no “beef” going on between these two beautiful women!

  • Nic L

    This is funny because I just saw them in a shoot in Allure Magazine’s October issue. I could see there being some beef because Chanel Iman def got all the better clothes and shots. Seriously! Just take a look at it. Even in the pics of them together Chanel Iman looks amazing and Sessilee Lopez looks like a man…

  • Stand Up Straight

    I know Sessliiee a model but that pose gotta go… everyone coming up too fast. Swear they the shit, we have never even heard of you until now..

    fallback some and take notes..

  • Larry

    Who cares?

    thelayoutspot.net

  • http://www.cbc.ca Dennis

    what a shame

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  • I’m Just Me: KEEPING IT REAL SINCE 1983

    I don’t think it was about the Italian Vogue. Chanel has really been big for what 2 years now, she has plenty of time to get on that cover.

    But i really hope that this is not true. We as minorities in this business must stick together. And they seem so young to be so worried about mess like this.

  • BastetsMeow

    Wow! Sorry to hear about the Chanel-Sessilee scrap. I will admit I don’t know about these two, but if it’s true that Chanel is starting this BS, then I think it’s sad. Any profession where females dominate, there will be drama. But in the fashion industry, where whites dominate like 99.9% of it, you would this drama btwn. the black models will cease. Has Chanel not learned anything from the whole Tyra/Naomi mess?

    On a side note, I think Sessilee takes better pics and she looks more haute couture than Chanel, hence her getting the cover of Italian Vogue. Both women are very gorgeous though and can rock the runway.

  • nicky

    Why do i have a feeling that the media is trying to start a cat fight.

  • seriously?

    if memory serves me correct they ALL got the cover of the italian vogue because there were like 5 different covers and chanel was one of them. unless we’re talking about an upcoming issue.
    they need to be worrying about getting on the cover of us vogue. now THAT would be a feat..

  • http://bossip DAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

    wow and they say white people dumb but im black.

  • Get your facts straight

    Ok , I just read a handfull of articles claiming sessilee is Dominican and Portuguese, hmm I guess that make her i dunno ,,HISPANIC, SO when you say black model beef, I guess your wrong once again

  • Tara

    I don’t even know y I am posting I have no time for ppl who call themselves Shiraz Gucci…I will kill my PARENTS if they ever called me that and my friends will kick my arse if I called my self Shiraz Gucci

  • Masie_UK

    These girls aren’t fully black, you can tell. they’re too pretty and exotic. I love both of them and hope they dont beef.

  • Hannibals Dad

    SHE MUST GOT GOOD HEAD OR PUSS, CAUSE EVERYTHING ELSE IS SUSPECT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • veve

    get your facts straight most domincans have black blood in them and you can be portuguse and be black( hell portugal’s most recent top model Ana Sofia is black) we since portugal owns different countries in africa o once owned. sessilee is well know as a black model in the fashio nworld hell she walked the Victoria’s Secret show last yr. and she did the black model cover for Italian.

  • eeh?

    chanel aint black shes mixed,half black and half korean dumb asses

  • Luena

    My Dad is from Lisbon- Portugal and we do NOT call ourselves Hispanic. So, PLEASE do not throw labels arounds. Educate your self and then come and talk with grown up’s.

  • Jessica

    There is a RULE. One drop of black blood makes u black. If your Mama is from China and your Papa is Black…you BLACK. That is why Mariah is BLACK and Wentworth Miller will always tell you he’s BLACK, you can be black mexican thats ur problem…but u Black. My Mother is from French West Indies and she aint HISPANIC either. You South American’s ppl ALWAYS want to Claim someone innit. Why don’t you look at the bloody MAP. Black ppl from New Zealand who are not even biologically African Black THEY claim to be Black so, I dont even see the value of claiming a minor race.

  • Lola

    Team Sessilee! :)

  • greeneyedsoul

    Team Jourdan Dunn, Alrenis Sosa, and Gracie Carvalho- my favorite young black models!!
    And for all you folks out there that dont know, Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity, not race!

  • eeh?

    Jessica only in america the one drop rule is used smh nobody calls mariah black over here they call her mulatto or biracial and yes chanel iman isnt black shes mixed and stop claiming everybody to be black mixed people doesnt want to be associated with one color when they are mixed

  • QUEEN

    two ugly chicks will never get along so wht lets move on

  • tony

    I love that early post, “shut up and be pretty” you both collect about $50,000 or more each freaking day!

  • tony

    there was really no black models @ Milan fashion week, Protest Prada, Versace,Cavalli, a complete snow storm on the runways!

  • Neni

    Sessilee is NOT black she is DOMINICAN, please get it right because there aren’t enough Dominicans in the Modeling Industry. She works hard and she is representing our people

  • Supreme

    Sessilee takes some bad pictures! Shes like the new Grace Jones. But Chanel has been getting all the shine lately. I wont call them black but theyre both mixed with different ish so ill call them Women of Color I love them both but we need to unite! Not need to fight LOL just love that a model of color is getting on the cover period.

  • ItsMeSnitches!

    Sessilee is not HISPANIC at all! She is BLACK she claims her heritage is Hispanic, but she is talking like waaay back in her family. I went to school with her, I think her paternal grandmother is mixed with Portuguese somewhere waaaay down the line, and her mother is BLACK but lightskinned, her maternal grandmother is BLACK and they originate from FLORIDA! Everyone has something mixed in them if you keep going way back in the family tree!

  • Married Woman

    Both of them could use some FOOD, good old fashion food. Don’t care what kind of food, any food would do. That type of skinny is f’n ridiculous and I hope my daughters (i got 3) don’t fall into the trap.

  • sarcasatire

    AFRO-LATINO is the phrase.
    My ancestors are AFRO-CUBANO…I’m black.
    My child’s dad is Brazilian..or AFRO-BRASILEIRO..means he and my baby are BLACK!!

    Let’s not get nationality confused with race, people!

    Dominicans can be BLACK! They seem to hate themselves the most..i live in a dominican community and they spend more money straightening their kinky hair than the African-American girls do! Why do you think their hair salons became so popular with blk girls? Cuz many domincans have the same texture hair and have been covering it up for decades!!

  • mai2cents

    both are too damn pretty for this non sense *smh

  • Junee

    chileboo: Chanel can’t make nobody delete their OWN Twitter acct. Sessilee deleted her acct on her own, and for the record Chanel has been booking and walking more shows than any other black model at the current time during the ongoing Spring/Summer 2010 Presentations. So Chanel isn’t jealous of Sessilee’s runway work. Nobody is sure what caused the two to fallout but sources say it started way before fashionweek started it just hit the fan during LFW. And also the Italian Vogue All Black issue featured Liya Kebede, Jourdan Dunn, Naomi Campbell and Sessilee Lopez, Chanel has not had a Vogue Italia cover yet although she has been featured in the mag several times.

  • Masie_UK

    SHUTTUP JESSICA, you ogre.

    I have black in me enough to look exotic,without looking too black the rest indian and irish. I would never consider myself black. IdioT!

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  • Carmen

    I know for a fact that Chanel told another model when Jordan first got pregnant that all she had to do now was to get rid of Sesily. I hope leaking this to the press isn’t part of her plan.

  • Don’t get it twi$ted

    Sessilee = FAKE.

    Nuff’ said.

  • malaka

    to eeh? and everyone else who keeps saying she’s mixed will they stop. her MOM is mixed. CHANEL IMAN is only 1/4 korean. that does not make her mixed whatsoever. and coming from someone who is also a quarter were not mixed. my mom is half black and half german and my dad is black. just like chanel iman her mom is half black and half korean and her dad is black. so like i said coming from someone who is a quarter something else does not make you mixed whatsoever. its only a 1/4. thats nothing. im black and so is chanel iman. people who are half black and half of anything else have a hard time being call mixed their usually their called black. so if your ONLY A QUARTER hell no your not mixed you is black. and also my mom considers herself black anyway.

  • Musaafiruun

    You can’t blame Chanel for keeping her boyfriend at her side whenever Sessliiee is around. Whatever the rights and wrongs of their argument Chanel wouldn’t have a chance if Sessliiee decided to get physical with her.

  • EEE

    Well if you never heard of them it just goes to show yah that you don’t know jack about High fashion. I aint talking about Coogi, rockawear, and babyphat either! lol These girls both are Supermodels, that’s who they are.

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