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Barbara Summers was born on 6 September, 1944, is a model. Discover Barbara Summers's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Occupation Writer, educator, fashion model
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 6 September 1944
Birthday 6 September
Birthplace Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Date of death November 2014
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Barbara Summers Height, Weight & Measurements

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Who Is Barbara Summers's Husband?

Her husband is Marc Albert

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Children Kimson Albert

Barbara Summers Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Barbara Summers worth at the age of 70 years old? Barbara Summers’s income source is mostly from being a successful model. She is from . We have estimated Barbara Summers's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2023 $1 Million - $5 Million
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1989

As a writer and editor, she published works including I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America (1989), Nouvelle Soul: Short Stories (1992), The Price You Pay (a novel set in the world of modeling, 1993), Skin Deep: Inside the World of Black Fashion Models (1998), Black and Beautiful: How Women of Color Changed the Fashion Industry (2001), and Open the Unusual Door: True-Life Stories of Challenge, Adventure, and Success by Black Americans (2005). Her most notable writing is her 1998 book Skin Deep, which explores the role of African-American models within the fashion industry and the emergence of black designers, and "presents a fascinating portrait of black supermodels", including profiles of Dorothea Towles, Beverly Johnson, Iman, Barbara Cheeseborough, and others. The book was described in The Crisis as "an amazingly comprehensive history ... an inspiring read and a delight to own."

1949

Barbara Gene Summers was born in Springfield, Mass., to Don and Lucy Summers, the second of her parents' five children. In her own words: "My wonderful, hard-working father used to call me Daughter #2. He and my mother had 4 girls before their one and only son arrived." She grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, where her family moved in 1949. She graduated from Weaver High School in 1963 and then went to the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a B.A. degree. She subsequently did graduate studies at Yale University and then the University of Paris at the Sorbonne, where she "promptly became a grad school dropout and a lifelong Francophile". After living in Paris, she moved to Puerto Rico and Haiti, staying there for several years with her husband Marc Albert and their son. Back in New York City, she began her career as a model while working as a college instructor, and she latterly returned to academia, teaching at Hostos Community College in the Bronx.

1944

Barbara Summers (September 6, 1944 – November 2014) was an American writer and educator who had also had a long and successful career as a fashion model, working for 17 years with Ford Models, one of America's top agencies. Her 1998 book, Skin Deep – the story of Black models in America and abroad – is a definitive work on black women in the modeling industry. for which she spent more a decade interviewing fashion professionals on three continents to record their experiences,