Smith was among 16 people who were injured.īoth of her legs were amputated, she sustained a brain injury and nine ribs on her right side were broken, among other injuries. Ten people were killed in the April 23 rampage. when a white van hurtled down Yonge and left a trail of carnage in its wake. The 81-year-old was walking near Yonge St. “I thought, ‘Boy, I’m really lucky to get this today.’ ” “I was so thrilled,” the retired librarian and book-a-day reader recalled. Her biggest Bevelation? “It gets greater later.On a bright and sunny spring day, Beverly Smith headed to her local library in North York to pick up a copy of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. “I am daring to dream and pushing myself and making myself uncomfortable,” Smith said. She would go on to co-host “Page Six TV” from 2017 to 2019 and now interviews A-listers on her SiriusXM show “Bevelations.” In 2014 her break finally came with the talk-show “Fashion Queens” on Bravo. She ate canned salmon, sold her designer goods and even ended up in housing court when she fell behind on her rent.
“I was delusional and thought to myself, ‘Well, honey, this happened, so surely there’s another show down the road,’ ” Smith said. She admits that might not have been the wisest move, even though she had faith in herself. It sounded perfect, but the contract prohibited her from earning dough from her twice-a-month dinners, so she turned it down. Shortly after, she was asked to join the Bravo show “Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style 101” as an on-air personality. “Faustaa” dress, $29 at Ted Baker, Cashmere knit wrap, $1,695 at St John Knits, leather gloves with faux fox cuff, $44.99 at Shop Surell. It became her calling card and her cash flow.
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So Smith launched a dinner series in 2007, joining power brokers from across industries. At 38, she quit advertising to pursue a new life, writing for various publications, taking improv classes - and depleting her savings.īroke but still connected, she had a drunken “aha!” moment after a fashion-industry dinner at Nobu, where she ran into the singer Omarion and realized how few black artists were privy to fashion circles. Tamara Beckwith/NY PostĪfter her breakdown in Milan, she tapped into her own sensitive side, turning to self-help books like “The Artist’s Way” to realize her true dream: to be an entertainer. “He was a very sensitive spirit.” Bevy Smith was a co-host on the “Page Six TV” show (left, with Carlos Greer and Elizabeth Wagmeister). “I do believe that we connected because we were both people who were masquerading in this testosterone-filled culture of hip-hop in the ’90s,” said Smith of Shakur.
Not only was she attending fashion shows, she was also wrapped up in the burgeoning hip-hop scene, partying with rappers like Biggie Smalls, Sean Combs and Tupac Shakur - a kindred spirit. With grit and social-butterfly skills, Smith rose to an executive position.
Once she saw the corporate-world safety her parents never experienced, she was determined to stay. After high school, Smith landed a temporary gig as a receptionist at an ad agency. When she was growing up, her dad worked at a copper refinery while her mom cleaned homes.
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“I grew up with 1950s and ’60s TV reruns where people got married and that person made you happy.” After a breakup, Smith was looking for love in all the wrong places: shopping and meaningless sex.“I was like, ‘OMG, I have to make myself happy,’ ” Smith, now 54, told The Post. ” Diane von Furstenberg “Kennedy” wool-cashmere wrap dress, $448 at Neiman Marcus. “I was unable to craft a strategy to solve my problem because I didn’t know what was wrong. It chronicles her rise from working-class Harlemite to high-flying fashion exec to a bold reinvention, in her 40s, as a TV and radio personality. “I was spiraling out of control and couldn’t see my way around that feeling,” Smith writes in her new memoir, “Bevelations: Lessons From a Mutha, Auntie, Bestie” (Andy Cohen Books). In 1999 Bevy Smith arrived in Milan, was chauffeured to her usual suite at the ritzy Principe di Savoia hotel and promptly collapsed into her Frette sheets, experiencing a breakdown - and an epiphany.Īs the fashion advertising director at Vibe magazine, she seemingly had it all: designer swag, regular travel to Europe and an obscene expense account. Chelsea Clinton helps Middle Collegiate Church rebuild after fire
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