Kate Moss reveals danger of fashion industry – ‘I was thin because I didn’t eat sprouts’ | Ents & Arts News

Kate Moss has revealed how photography helped her “paint my mood” as a teenager, leaving her able to “tell the wrong thing a mile away” – as she talks about the dangers of the fashion industry.

The British model was just 15 years old when she was working with a male photographer who asked her to take off her top and bra in a bra catalog photo shoot.

Now 48, the 48-year-old told BBC Desert Island that she had taken off her top despite being “really shy about my body”.

“And he said, ‘Take off your bra,’ and I sensed something was wrong, so I grabbed my stuff and ran away.”

“I think it sharpened my senses.

“I can tell a mistake a mile away.”

Moss grew up in Croydon, South London, and was signed by Storm Management in 1988 at the age of 14.

She became famous two years later after being photographed on the beach at Camber Sands in East Sussex.

Moss told presenter Lauren Laverne that remembering the photo shoot – with fashion photographer Corinne Day for The Face magazine – was “painful”.

‘I didn’t want to take my top off.’

“That wrinkled nose on the cover, she says, ‘Snort like a pig’ to get that image.”

“And I’m like, ‘I don’t want to snort like a pig,’ and she’s like, ‘Snort like a pig, then it looks good.’

Moss said she “cried a lot” because she was uncomfortable being naked.

She said: “I didn’t want to take my top off.

“I was really self-conscious about my body and she would say, ‘If you don’t lift your lashes, I won’t have you for Elle,’ and I would cry.”

“It’s hard to get myself back there.

“It hurts because she was my best friend and I love her so much – but she was a very tricky person to work with.

“But you know the pictures are amazing so she got what she wanted and I suffered for them, but in the end they did me a world of good.

“They changed my career.”

“I think I’m an escape for a lot of people’s problems.”

Moss in 2010 He worked for Vogue again in 1993 with Day.

Photos taken in Moss’s apartment showed her in her underwear, prompting criticism that she was glorifying thinness and drug use.

Moss said: “I think I’m a scapegoat for a lot of people’s problems.

“I was never anorexic, I never was. I never took heroin. I was skinny because I wasn’t fed on shots or shows, and I’ve always been skinny.

“It was a fashion shoot. It was shot in my apartment and that’s how I managed to survive at the time.

“And I think it was a shock because I wasn’t a nerd and I was just a normal girl.

“I wasn’t a glamazon model, and I think that shocked them.”

‘Someone I knew used to do drugs.’

In the year In 2009, fashion website WWD quoted her as saying, “There’s nothing sweeter than feeling thin,” but for Desert Island Discs, she said the words were taken out of context as a “sound bite.”

In the year She referred to photographs published in 2005 showing her using cocaine with then-boyfriend Pete Doherty.

She said: “I was so angry because everyone I knew was doing drugs; So I thought it was hypocritical for them to focus on me and try to take my child away,” she said.

When asked why she apologized publicly, Moss replied: “I really had to apologize because people were looking at me.

I know the truth about Johnny

Moss spoke about her ex-partner Johnny Depp and his recent defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard.

Moss and Depp had a relationship between 1994 and 1998 and she testified on his behalf during a defamation suit.

Heard had spoken out about rumors that Depp had put Moss down during their time together, but Moss said: “I know the truth about Johnny.

“I know he never kicked me off the floor.

“I had to tell the truth.”

Speaking via videolink from Gloucestershire, Moss told the court that instead she fell down the stairs and hurt her back and Depp came to her aid.