Jenny Shimizu was having the time of her life within the ’90s.
Not solely was she residing her fact as an brazenly homosexual mannequin and having fun with skilled success, however she was additionally having enjoyable behind the scenes. Within the new docuseries In Vogue: The 90s, the previous Calvin Klein and Banana Republic mannequin, now 57, opens up about her time romping round Europe with Madonna
“I imply, you’re not gonna say no to Madonna within the ’90s,” she recollects within the remaining installment of the six-episode collection. “Not solely was it nice feeling like a excessive class hooker — as a result of actually it was. You’d get a cellphone name like, ‘Hey are you able to meet me at my Paris present. You’re in Europe proper?’ ”
“So I’d be like, ‘Yeah, I’m simply ending Prada. Proper after Prada I’ll catch a airplane over.’ And I’d. I’d go over to her resort, to the Ritz, at like 4 within the morning, have intercourse, after which fly again to Milan.”
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“My spouse goes to kill me,” Shimizu joked within the docuseries, referring to spouse Michelle Harper, whom she wed in 2014.
Shimizu additionally touched on that point in her life in her memoir, launched final yr.
‘It wasn’t about an emotional bond, it was about taking one another to the heights of sexual ecstasy,” she wrote. “I cherished the truth that I used to be at this lady’s beck and name. It turned me on, being ordered to her room at any time when she felt like intercourse.”
The time the 2 spent collectively reportedly overlapped with Shimizu’s relationship with one other large star — Angelina Jolie.
Jolie reportedly instructed Girlfriends journal in 1997, per InStyle, that the mannequin “might have been a deep love” for her.
“I in all probability would have married Jenny Shimizu if I hadn’t married my husband,” she added, referring to her ex Jonny Lee Miller. “I fell in love along with her the primary second I noticed her.”
“That point was so loopy and enjoyable. There’s actually one thing heartfelt about sure moments,” Shimizu provides within the docuseries, trying again on the first time she appeared on a marketing campaign billboard in New York Metropolis.
“I bear in mind my pals purchased me to Instances Sq. and stated ‘Look!’ And I had simply finished a Banana Republic marketing campaign. And beneath it stated, ‘American Magnificence,’ and by no means in my life had I been described as American or as a magnificence,” she says.
“Being Japanese and having my mother and father going by internment camps, and being homosexual, and — to stroll down the road and at all times get harassed not directly, for one second, seeing that marketing campaign… it was such a, you already know, it was an enormous assertion. And I actually am grateful to Calvin as a result of he truly did one thing that was so optimistic globally.”
In Vogue: The 90s is now streaming on Hulu.