Kate Moss grew up in Croydon, South London and signed to Storm Management in 1988 aged 14
Kate Moss has revealed that a photoshoot as a teenager helped her “sharpen” her intuition, leaving her able to “spot the wrong person from a mile away”, according to Sky News. The model was just 15 years old when she worked with a male photographer who asked her to remove her top and bra during a photo shoot for a bra catalogue.
Today he is 48 years old and declared on BBC Desert Island Discs that she took off her top when asked, even though – at the time – she was “very shy about her body”.
“Mhe said, “Take off your bra” and I felt something was wrong, so I grabbed my things and ran away. I think my instincts sharpened. I can tell the wrong person from a mile away“, says the well-known model.
THE Kate Moss grew up in Croydon, south London, and signed to Storm Management in 1988, aged 14. She became famous two years later after a photo shoot at Camber Sands beach in East Sussex.
Moss told the host that the memory of her shoot with fashion photographer Corinne Day for The Face magazine was painful. “I didn’t want to take my shirt off.” Kate reveals. “I was very, very embarrassed about my body and she was like, ‘If you don’t take your shirt off I’m not going to book you for Elle,’ and I was crying».
Elsewhere in the interview, Kate Moss notes that she was the scapegoat for many people’s problems. The photos, taken in Moss’s apartment, showed her in her underwear, prompting criticism that it glorified anorexia and drug use. “I have never been anorexic, nor have I ever been. I had never taken heroin. I was thin because I wasn’t fed on set or at shows and I was always thin“, she explains herself.
Asked why she publicly apologized, Kate Moss replied: “I kind of had to really apologize because if people admired me, I had to apologize».
Finally, the model also spoke about her ex-partner, Johnny Depp, and his recent defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard. “Xlove that never kicked me down the stairs. I had to tell this truth».
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