Slick Woods Looks Divine in Jacques Burga Fashion Shoot for L'Officiel Italia

Photographer Jacques Burga [IG] flashes model Slick Woods in ‘Home Slick’ for the March 2021 issue of L’Officiel Italia./ Hair by Sheridan Ward

Slick Woods made a huge name for herself, posing very pregnant in Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty September 2018 Brooklyn fashion show . Woods has one of those tears-in-your-eyes stories of the homeless teen discovered in a bus station who rose to become one of Rihanna’s most precious models. Slick Woods appeared in the 2018 all-Black Pirelli calendar.

The lighthearted, now legendary story is that Rihanna spanked Slick Woods’ butt right before the September 2018 Savage X Fenty fashion show, and the model was in labor before the event ended, giving birth to her son 18 hours later.

Realizing with this post that we hadn’t seen a lot of Slick Woods, AOC went searching for an update.

Woods is co-parenting her son Saphir with his father Adonis Bosso. The very proud father was self-isolating with his family and Saphir in Toronto when Vogue touched base with him last June. Both father and son were doing great — all things considered.

The CNN headline now three weeks old was not about Slick Woods doing great, although as with the rest of her life, “Slick Woods is dealing with cancer on her own terms.”

In July 2019, Slick Woods arrived at her dentist, who noticed suspicious spots which were biopsied. Woods soon learned that she had stage 3 melanoma. The dazzling young woman said that being bald was suddenly a plus, when she began chemotherapy in November 2019.

The CNN interview with Woods is an excellent read about her life priorities and her experiences as a model. It’s worth the read.

Woods’ chemo was brutal, leaving herin a wheelchair with nerve damage, having lost control of one arm and both legs.

The great news is that Woods has recovered from the chemo blast and is deeply immersed in a project to support the homeless in downtown LA, whose Skid Row is America’s largest concentration of homeless people.

The life-altering news — as if she hasn’t already been through enough in life — is that Ms. Slick Woods has decided to stop her cancer treatment, knowing that her life now has an end date coming much sooner than she expected when she was a Mercedez Benz talent a few years ago.

On the one hand AOC is not happy with our failure to update Slick Woods sooner. On the other hand, we are in awe of everything we are reading about the grace with which this outstanding young woman is handling this sad news for Saphir’s mommy. ~ Anne