Kate Moss covers the December issue of Vanity Fair, and we’ve already discussed a few of the early excerpts that leaked concerning Kate’s claim that she never did heroin and wasn’t anorexic. Now VF has released a few photos and much more of the interview, and I have to say that I am surprised at how much Kate is revealing here. While she is pushing her massive coffee table book, Kate: The Kate Moss Book, it’s still quite odd that Kate feels the need to “tell all” in a sense. She’s never been one to be interviewed (I think the first in-depth talk she gave was when pushing the first installment of her Topshop line several years ago), and I figure she harbors plenty of scandalous secrets that she’ll take to her grave. So it’s strange that she’s talking about her feelings for Johnny Depp here at all beyond a cursory surface sentence. Here are some excerpts:
Staying in character: “I don’t want to be myself, ever. I’m terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I’ve got facial Tourette’s. Unless I’m working and in that zone, I’m not very good at pictures, really. On my wedding day, I’m like freaking out, obviously. ‘You’ve got to give me a character.’ And [John Galliano] said, ‘You have a secret–you are the last of the English roses. Hide under that veil. When he lifts it, he’s going to see your wanton past!'”
Regrets over her 1992 Calvin Klein shoot: “I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn’t feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn’t like it. I couldn’t get out of bed for two weeks. I thought I was going to die. I went to the doctor, and he said, ‘I’ll give you some Valium,’ and Francesca Sorrenti, thank God, said, ‘You’re not taking that.’ It was just anxiety. Nobody takes care of you mentally. It was just really weird–a stretch limo coming to pick you up from work. I didn’t like it. But it was work, and I had to do it.”
On being shot by Corinne Day for The Face: “I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, If you don’t do it, then we’re not going to book you again. So I’d lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There’s a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested. And I had a big mole on one. That picture of me running down the beach–I’ll never forget doing that, because I made the hairdresser, who was the only man on the shoot, turn his back.”
More on “heroin chic”: “I had never even taken heroin–it was nothing to do with me at all. I think Corrine–she wasn’t on heroin but always loved that Lou Reed song, that whole glamorizing the squat, white-and-black and sparse and thin, and girls with dark eyes. She loved that look. I was thin, but that’s because I was doing shows, working really hard. At that time, I was staying at a B and B in Milan, and you’d get home from work and there was no food. You’d get to work in the morning, there was no food. Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don’t get fed. But I was never anorexic. They knew it wasn’t true–otherwise I wouldn’t be able to work.”
On Johnny Depp: “There’s nobody that’s ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, ‘What do I do?,’ he’d tell me. And that’s what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust. Nightmare. Years and years of crying. Oh, the tears!”
On the tamer life: “I don’t really go to clubs anymore. I’m actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I’m not a hell-raiser. But don’t burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure I’m a hell-raiser.”
[From Vanity Fair]
That part about Johnny is interesting, isn’t it? I wonder what husband Jamie Hince thinks of her answers. I’ve always thought that Kate was still (to this date) kind of hung up on him (or rather, the old Johnny), and she even admitted (in passing) during a Dazed & Confused interview in the late 1990s that she had never gotten over him after several years. Oddly enough, that interview was with Jefferson Hack, with whom Moss went on to have a relationship with and to spawn daughter Lila Grace. So maybe guys who date Kate Moss have always realized that they’ll never top Johnny, and they don’t mind. If you ask me (and you clearly haven’t), Kate totally dodged a bullet when she left Johnny. She didn’t have to be the one who dealt with his ridiculous mid-life crisis.
By the way, this is a very Bridget Bardot-inspired photoshoot. Does Kate pull it off?
Photos courtesy of Vanity Fair
I thought this was a picture of Blohan in the front section lol
Me too!
I thought worse: Courtney Snowdon or whatever her name is.
I think she’s fabulous.
+1 Now THIS is a model…(unlike that kate upton girl that everyone is trying to make)her facial expressions are just amazing!
you nailed it!
I was looking at these pictures, and I thought Kate Upton’s shoot is not even remotely near at this one.
I so completely agree with you both.
This, THIS, a million times this!
YES!
I’m not trying to sound pissy because I’m genuinely interested, so maybe someone can help me out with my bafflement. What’s the difference between a ‘good’ model and a ‘bad’ model and why are we supposed to be moved by it? I don’t sit around all day contemplating the modelling world, but when I’m in a situation when I do start thinking about these in a little more detail, it’s…the word ‘hater’ wouldn’t be inaccurate for what I become. It’s not personally directed (I don’t have a problem with the people), it’s more general than that. Now, pardon my French, please, but, what about it all isn’t–well, um, bullshit?
It swallows girls whole and just the ones in the industry, so what is it that could possibly be worth THAT?
She is ab fab. She is the last old school model FASHION DRUGS SEX AND ROCK’N’ROLL BABY!!!
She’s my favorite model of all time now, and probably will always be.
+1
Always loved Kate
Kate Moss and Helena Christensen, my favorites models ever. Christy Turlington is gorgeous too.
I doubt I’d get over being with Johnny either…sigh
Young Johnny Depp was a legitimate heart breaker. You have to just wonder what mind of lover and man he is… Winona had a nervous breakdown after they broke up, and I don’t think she ever found someone like him ever again. She seems to be alone all the time.
Kate and Johnny were great together, in their way, and there’s been speculation that he always wanted to go back to her but then he knocked up Vanessa and stayed and formed a family.
How you find Pete Doherty attractive when you had Johnny at his peak?
if you cant top it you might as well try the complete opposite- like dating george clooney and then steve-o
Omg yeah! That was so depressing!!
I know I’m in the minority here (if not totally alone) but I find Steve-O a step UP from Clooney, who just seems so…I dunno…greasy? Anyway, go ahead and mock me! 🙂 (But Pete Doherty? No. Just…no.)
Wanna Ryder alone? Oh that is funny. Emotionally alone sure, physically alone, not as long as there are wanna be emo musicians.
Johnny is not having a “ridiculous mid-life crisis.” He’s doing just fine, thank you. Getting tired of Vanessa Paradis does not equal a “crisis.” He’s busy with his career and seems much more at easy and happy since he dropped the French baggage.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! (inhale) Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
+ 1
Yeah, I’d be more concerned about the obsessive accessorizing. It seems a bit like hoarding to me. Dumping the mother of your children because you were bored, well, that’s normal. Wearing 14 scarves and rings and chains while doing it, and unable to appear without your security scarves…tips you over into crazyville.
He didn’t dump her.
They dumped each other. She is dating another guy right now. He’s french and they are apparently happy.
Johnny even let them stay in his house in the south of france. He gave her the keys. He’s a good man that Johnny.
After cheating on her, it’s the least he can do.
It was a bit of sarcasm playing off Karen’s insistance that Johnny got tired of Vanessa and that he’s better off without the French baggage. I’m not particularly invested in who dumped who. Just amused at Karen’s reaction to the mid-life crisis commentary.
@I’m going to Guam!The house in South France is not his house. It’s her house. She bought it with her first money before she met him. Of course, she kept it.
@Dap: Stop it hater! her house, it was the appartment in Paris
The house in the south of France it was bought (or built since zero, i think) by Johnny after the birth of Lily-Rose…
Check your facts! Vanessa never could have paid for it! it’s ginormous!
did he or Vanessa say he dumped her b/c he was bored? no they didn’t. let’s face it there’s no concrete fact on why they broke up and who dumped who so let’s be fair.
they obviously were on the rocks for a LONG time. there are obviously issues when a couple stop attending each others’ events,they were obviously avoiding each other. and since the end of the last year till this summer,Johnny has looked horrible IMO,I don’t mean looks but the way he came across.I don’t believe for one second that he took the break up easily, he was not himself,he looked miserable.
French women think there something special. I’m glad Johnny’s not with her. Maybe he’ll get back w/ Kate. lol
She seems like an unhappy person who is reflecting on all the mistakes and devaluing points in her career.This interview seems like she is saying that nobody in the industry genuinely cares about you and all she wanted was someone to take her out to dinner or care for her, which is slightly depressing. Oh, the life of a top model, it just seems destructive to the soul.
I agree.
Also, she comes across like a somewhat unstable soul, one that is never quite sure of things and is always looking for certainty. She speaks as if she really did (and does!) not have a clue as to how to be herself. You don’t meet that many people like that, and they are usually heartbreakingly “pure in essence”, if I might get a bit fancy.
She must have felt throughtly confused and uncertain of things in the past, I hope she’s found a way to be more balanced and secure.
I agree, she does seem very uncertain and insecure, but I think the industry is such a machine that it will have that effect on anyone. I actually like Kate and I hope she has found some inner solace despite everything. There seems to be a lot of pain.
Very few models, even the ones who make it, have happy tales to tell.
It”s hell on a teen’s psyche to be put through that.
It’s a horrible, terrible industry.
After seeing the cover, I am more interested in the Truman Capote article.
Kate Moss has always been rather dull to me. I think she was overblown as a model and she comes off as slightly vapid. She did drugs, maybe not heroin but she did use something. She was in the fashion industry, that biz runs rampant with drug use. Let’s also not forget she was a British model in the late 90s, many of them strived to look like Kate Moss. The super skinny anorexic look was what publishers and fashion moguls were looking for. Did she have a medical definition of anorexia? Probably not, she looked the way fashion magazines in Europe required her to look for her time.
+1 This is drivel being used to sell a coffee table book. I doubt that Moss said any of it without a lot of coaching. As for the denials about drug use, ” A Valium, oh heavens!”, that is pure nonsense. Cocaine Kate did plenty of drinking and drugging. Based on recent pictures that I’ve seen of her falling out of cabs after going clubbing, (Oh heavens! to that denial too), I think that she still does. She carefully avoids specifically saying the word coke, but she is simply skirting the truth. As for the heroin denials, b*tch puleeze. Does anyone really believe she didn’t at least snort or skin pop when she was with Doherty? Perhaps she is pretending that unless you inject it, it doesn’t count. Ditto to the “never anorexic” crap. If no one provides you with meals and/or snacks you buy/bring them for yourself unless, of course, you know that eating will cause you to lose your multi-million dollar career.
She was a very young person trying to make it in a very brutal business. I’m sure that she did suffer. However, at some point, if you have any brains at all, you learn to take care of yourself. Instead, Moss always just seemed to use her waif persona to find people to rescue her. And she lived a life of extraordinarily pampered luxury, huge wealth and great public acclaim as rewards for her discomforts.
Photogenic and good model? Yes, but really not much more than that.
Nothing sounds as good as denial feels.
You can’t ‘little girl lost’ your way out a biological imperative, if she didn’t ever eat save for when Auntie Carla was around, then you weren’t eating for deliberate reasons. What you say a person who is so lacking in agency that the basic necessities of life will go unfulfilled because you expected everyone to do everything for you? If you have the presence of mind to go clubbing and order your drinks, you’ll have the tools necessarily to order a meal and unless she and all the other girls were actively being starved, some sort of craft or room service would be provided. We’re not talking about a girl who had to share an apartment with nineteen other models and wander the streets penniless, she was Kate Freaking Moss and if Kate Freaking Moss wanted someone to buy her some milk, someone would have got her the milk. It is such a brutal business and girls get mistreated and abused, but there to have to perks to being an It Girl overnight world obsession. Or are we talking about the down-to-earth and selfless supermodel cliche wherein demands of any sort are never made, expectation of underlings is realistic and humane and diva behaviour isn’t tolerated.
I don’t bear any animosity but, okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay Kate Moss, okkkkkaaaaaaaaaayy. Maybe you should’ve asked Johnny for some directions to a supermarket and and him teach you how to chew, swallow, use utensils and recognize the difference between real life people food and a still life on a wall.
I have never understood her attraction. She does look like Bardot in that picture.
Wonder what her husband thinks of these comments.
Wonder what Mr. Depp thinks!
I think she looks great, but I think I’m one of the very few that think Johnny Depp is unattractive.
AMAZING.
Love it!!!
she looks amazing! and I love how candid she is in this interview!!! Everyone has someone that they could not get over (for years)
Yep, yep, oooooh yep…(deep introspective pause) you know, i really like this chick. She’s not afraid to be real. Most everyone else fakes the idea of real and only end up sounding vapid and shallow. There’s a reason she’s been so successful, and it’s not just skin deep. Good on ya Kate, i’ve always thought you were uniquely beautiful, but never really was a fan, until reading this article.
That’s not true. I would say only a very few people have someone they never get over.
I wouldn’t.
But it would be nice…
I didn’t know who it was.
She actually is a model that’s interesting to listen to. I read something she said about modelling a few years ago and was amazed about how thoughtful she was.
Not a fan of the pictures.
I know what she means about Johnny though. Sometimes there is just that person that your heart wants to be with, even if it’s not the best thing for you, and you haven’t been with them for years.
Obviously, I have one too lol
+1
Ugh. This is unfortunately so very true for so many women. (and men???)
Why is Kate breaking her career-long habit of almost never giving interviews?
I’ve always admired Kate for adhering to the maxim that models should be seen and not heard, unlike the nobodies inanely tweeting about their baby’s nappies or some other mundanity. But maybe I’ll have to rethink that.
BTW does anyone think Kate looks like a young Debbie Harry in these photos?
her daughter is a teen soon ! maybe she wants that her daughter knows the truth and not just “your mum is an old party girl who likes coke and rockers” by the tabloids
But…. why does she need to go through the press to communicate with her own daughter?
I’ve just read the article properly. Seems she has a book out soon. That explains her need for publicity. Shame though. Kate, unlike so many contemporary models, always allowed her photos to do the talking.
I usually think Kate has a major Brigitte Bardot thing going on (even in her day to day life), but I definitely saw Debbie Harry in this shoot right away!
I’d imagine that there’s a contractual obligation that must be honoured.
I’m not feeling that wig she looks like Amanda Seyfried or Devon Aoki from Too Fast Too Furious and Sin City.
I think it’s highly suspicious that she is talking so much about her feelings for Johnny recently…the last week was “I WAS LUCKY TO BE WITH JOHNNY” and now that she cried years for him…
Why now, Kate? Why now that he is the single? Is she trying to send some sort of “message” to him?
During the cocaine scandal, Depp publicly supported her. IMO, they will always have a soft spot for each other cos they were in love, but Kate’s married now, she had 2 great loves after him, so I don’t think it is anything but reminiscing.
I am glad she finally spoke up, she is an amazing model and not stupid or heartless as some people assume. Young models can use her experiences, because Kate did it all, both in her private and personal life.
I’ve pegged ‘young johnny’ as the dude in the blind who shot his girlfriend by accident, which got her hooked on pain meds and led to her increasingly strange behaviour. Shoplifting, anyone?
It’s said he was Charlie Sheen
1/ there is a real story about charlie Sheen shooting a girlfriend :it’s not a secret http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/830013/charlie-sheen-kelly-preston-shooting-was-her-fault
2/Mickey Rourke and carre Otis also http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2011/10/10/carre_otis_recalls_shooting_herself_wi
3/the blind was about Depp shooting Ryder accidentily and Ryder becoming addict to meds because of the injury but it’s untrue: Ryder was/is addict to meds because she’s insomniac ( in some very old interviews, she talked her uneasyness and insomnia)
That’s not a blind. That’s Charlie Sheen. he accidentally shot kelly Preston [who moved on to Travolta]. They both talk about it. And it made the news at the time.
@Carrie – Carrie Otis and Micket Rourke had an infamously destructive relationship. She gave numerous interviews after it was done about it. with details. I think she even wrote a book about her experiences. It wasn’t pretty.
honestly, these blind items trying to ‘hook’ people by recycling decades old gossip that was very publicly played out.
You’ve got to narrow it down. Hollywood guys really love shooting their girlfriends.
In one of the things I can never explain, I have always been fascinated with Kate Moss. I will be buying this issue. Good job Vanity Fair.
ditto.
I think it’s because she doesn’t talk too much to the press: she is everywhere, because she is a great model,at the same time we don’t know nothing about her. Except when she is a public mess.
bur she keeps herself like a misterious being, so everytime she speaks we get interested into her.
Sounds like she’s lying to me. And forget about “Johnny!!” – I want to know what the frig she was thinking when she was with Pete Doherty?
Peter is an amazing poet with an amazing brain. He can seduce pretty much anyone with his words. It is good that Kate realized how toxic the relationship was, but I simply adore Peter as an artist, shame that he cannot kick his drug habits out.
definitely @Milla. He is unkempt, unwashed and looks really gross BUT when you hear his words. his poetry. It is qite amazing. You can see the attraction.
Before I knew of his intellectual prowess I wondered the same thing, but now it’s muddier. With all of the junkie rockers out there, how was she drawn to the prize-winning poet who won the Oxford scholarship?
I made this picture my sister’s desktop background once as a prank. It worked. Though it didn’t get the middle of the night screech that the Shane McGowan Experiment would in years to come, she definitely phoned me:
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Who needs medals when you’ve got Bundy Gold?
This interview pissed me off. Oh boo hoo you had a stretch limo pick you up to take you tow ork and no one took you out to lunch yet you made millions of dollars off of posing for photos. Give me a break
Gosh really? Are you really unable to put yourself in her shoes and remember what it’s like to be 16 years old?
At 16, you have no life experience to say, “Hey, I’m kinda hungry. Any good places to eat around here?” You WAIT to be told when to eat. It’s that simple.
At 16, you have no life experience so when a stretch limo picks you up, you would feel OVERWHELMED by all the attention. And not in a good way.
Honestly, money doesn’t protect you from feeling all the normal stuff. Some people commenting here seem to think that loads of money equals immunity from the ordinary human experience.
I don’t think it’s lack of sympathy, it’s more that the way that some of her stories are framed is kind of arresting and confusing.
All of Johnny’s women look alike.
Really?
Vanessa and Kate maybe a little with their high cheekbones, but Winona? And his ex wife? He was young though so I guess that doesn’t really count.
All I have noticed is he likes slim/thin women with small boobs.
They aren’t jus slim and thin, they’re fairy or elf-like. They look like they all came from the Same mold with slight changes to the faces/hair colors
Fairy/elf-like is a good way of putting it. I always noticed the large eyes/small mouths they all seem to have.
Some men are attracted to women who are unusually vulnerable, emotionally damaged, &/or carrying some heavy luggage. He can play Protector, Guide, White Knight; the One who’s going to watch over her & keep her from going over the edge. Vanessa always struck me as being stronger & less needy than the others. Despite having started as a delicate-looking teen pop idol in France, she just doesn’t have that Damsel-in-Distress vibe. His loss.
Depp’s excuse for the Kate breakup was that he felt they weren’t healthy for each other. Classic. Her drinking problem had burst into full flower, & she’s *always* shown signs of eating disorder (what was that notorious remark a few years back—something like, she denies herself food because “Skinny is better”?).
Some people play & party, & get through it without incurring too much damage, because they’re not really self-medicating; but Rivers, Wynonas, Kates, etc tend to get caught.
I think Depp was okay til mid-40s. But he’s aging; in a creative rut & knows it; taking the easy-$$$ Franchise route; & suddenly found he’s too old to wake from a night of partying & still look pretty. Cheating with wide eyed 20-somethings who see him as he was 10 years ago can offer a brief, false return of self-esteem, but it’s hell on a relationship. Hope he grows up, gets over it, & stops pissing away his talent.
not Winona Ryder
definitely winona too.
Some people do that. Go out with essentially the same physical type person repeatedly with minor changes. look at Rod Stewart.
Kate looks way better without make-up than Vanessa. Vanessa au natural could send a train up a dirt road.
LOL! That made me laugh. I know one shouldn’t make fun of a woman’s appearance but this is Celebitchy after all.
I agree: Vanessa without make-up is NOT a pretty sight. Looks tired and way older than her years. Even with full make-up and designer threads she’s nothing special imho. She is NOT ageing well.
Beyond the high cheekbones and waif-like figures, I don’t see it.
I agree that all of his women look alike. Not only that, they all look like HIM. He dates the girl version of himself.
They DO look like him!
I love Kate & so does the camera. I think she is opening up more as her days of iconic photo-shoots are put behind her. She is onto the next.
This makes me like her a lot more. I like that she was uncomfortable with those shoots and is talking about it. She was so young, i wish she had had a parent or someone else looking out for her at such an impressionable age. How do you ever forget or get over being treated like such a pretty object and not like a human being that requires things like food?
Yeah I agree. Maybe a dumb question, but why wouldnt they have any food for the models at the shoots, shows, etc? I think they could spare to eat some fruit salad after the show at least. Not cool that the industry was (is?) encouraged starving.
i remember a documentary years ago that had all the big models reminiscing about life on a shoot and backstage at a catwalk show and they said that the only thing provided where copious amounts of alcohol. Kate said she was always drunk at shows because someone always handed her a drink as soon as she arrived.
BTW: a show is only 20minutes. Most of models booked are present for an hour per show depending on what other shows they have booked each day. it’s not an all day affair. So one can see why they wouldn’t provide food at shows.
Craft services on a shoot depend on the budget. and the client. Models are seen very much as props rather than integral part of the end product unless they are big models in which case they are properly looked after and then some.
“‘You have a secret–you are the last of the English roses. Hide under that veil. When he lifts it, he’s going to see your wanton past!’”
I’m sorry but bahahahahahaha!
Are you kidding me? Lol, I can understand needing a role for picture taking (too well actually) but that line was ridiculous. I’m surprised she’s not laughing hysterically in all her photos, how corny.
Also, these photos are kind of terrible. It makes Kate Upton look incredibly qualified.
I would say that Moss has not had any cosmetic enhancement, but most of her published photos have been shopped. Though she has done a certain amount of damage to her looks through smoking, drinking and drug use, I think it’s admirable that she so far has left her face alone. Perhaps models don’t mind that their pictures are adjusted before printing, and remain realistic about what actually stares back at them in the mirror. I hope she lets herself age naturally forever, with grace and dignity. It does seem the men that she has chosen are the kind that don’t want a plastic barbie doll type, and don’t mind her a little rough around the edges.
why do you always mention the mid life crisis when you mention johnny??whats the point of this?okay he had a mid life crisis(according to you), end of story.he is doing well now
Vanessa has moved on with some other guy so I think the break up was something they both wanted.
Johnny doesn’t have a midlife crisis, he (as well as Vanessa) just grew apart and wanted to move on.
we don’t know if Vanessa has moved on. thet both seem to be single,and both seem a bit depressed.Vanessa’s Harper Bazaar magazine made me think she ended it though.
I agree both Johnny and Vanessa seem to be single and not really having a great time IMO, and reading her interview looks like she ended it maybe he wanted to end it too but seems like she was the one that said “enough”
Love her. And her book looks super gorgeous.
I remember reading a quote from her years ago about how she was bawling during her topless photo shoot as a teen. For some reason I thought it was with a male photographer and she was younger (14-15), and I wondered how it wasn’t child pornography or sexual assault.
Really? That’s interesting because this is the first I’ve ever heard/read about her being uncomfortable during the early days. She really must’ve been good even then because you can’t tell at all from the Corinne Day shots. Sad but impressive.
I have to say, I never cared about models giving interviews but Kate Moss? I would pre-order any memoir she would write the second I could. The things she must know about the industry and the crazy-a** people in it ….
I’m not sure if anything has changed, but I don’t think models under 18 should ever be photographed topless or naked. Reading her story about it made me feel sad – it’s clear that she was pressured into something she wasn’t at all comfortable with, which just seems like child exploitation to me. And the fact that she was paid doesn’t make it better, in fact it probably makes it worse.
no wonder I’m the eternal single if being with a man is letting him take care of and make decisions for me.
A close partnership where I get back up , ideas and advice, yes please, someone who turns me into a will less doll – no thanks
Gwyneth Paltrow does the same thing with Brad Pitt…the one that got away. I guess even celebs can’t help but feel that way sometimes.
I think she just meant when she did that particular photo shoot, she had not done heroin or tried it [at that point!] and that the photographer was fascinated by that heroin chic look.
Notice she does not deny every doing heroin or drugs, just in the context of that shoot when she was just starting out, [or a few years into it]….
I think she is beautiful as a model and has great style.
She and Siena Miller, say what you will, but they have great style.
“I don’t really go to clubs anymore. I’m actually quite settled.”
Big.
Fat.
Lie.
In the past several months she has been photographed multiple times coming out of clubs smashed out of her mind.
why she cry if she left him?
Because she loved him but love is not enough sometimes
Is anyone else disturbed by this interview? These young models are pushed to be sexualized, to be naked, to be objectified, as if they were hard-life adults who could handle it. Who wants to do that to a teenager who can’t cope with that kind of context and exposure? It smacks of assault.
That’s why you don’t push your child into modelling. Milan is the worst place for yong models. People assume that models have it easy but the stuff they have to put up with in order to keep working is assault. And that’s after you’ve been judged on your weight, height, physical flaws etc. They may be blessed in the looks department when compared to regular people bt it is an very ugly industry they work in.
it’s scary to think that Kate was spotted at age 14 and immediately pt to work
And all washed up by 20 or 21 if they hyaven’t made it big. rare is the model who makes it after that age. i think Lara stone is the only one i can think of.
Oh YA! That supposedly it’s necessary to use children to model clothes for women is so f*^ked up to me. I can’t believe women accept it.
^^^ This!!
We need to ask ourselves, as women, why we let these fashion houses believe that the only way we want to see these clothes are on young girls with body types really only possible as a teen.
I recall Kate saying in an interview in the last year or two that she was not happy being that thin, and the agencies pressured her. Now she’s giving quite a different version of events.
Many models have talked about how agencies have pressurred them, but not Kate. i think the only comment she has made in relation to her weight in past interviews was to deny the heroine chic label which wasn’t jst about the drug taking but also about being or looking anorexic
I love her! Whatever else she does, she’s always authentic. My favorite quote: “Nothing tastes as good as thin.”
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
This will be the first Vanity Fair that I’ve bought in a while.
Interesting that on her wedding day, the photographer told her that her character was “the last of the english roses,” which is the name of a song Pete Doherty wrote about her.
It wasn’t the photographer.It was the dress designer, John Galliano, to give her inspiration as she walked down the aisle to be married.
Could someone please tell me why she left Jonny if they were so in love?
if I remember correctly,they wanted different things in life. Johnny wanted kids and Kate didn’t at the time(I think). they also faught too much but still parted ways on very good terms and even appeared in public events as friends.
I don’t think she left him. I think he fazed her out and tried to get her to leave him (He doesn’t struck me as someone who would end it cut throat). I don’t think he ever wanted to go back to her when he met Vanessa and she got pregnant because the interviews with him before that were all about him wanting to be a father and soon and Kate didn’t want them at the time, pplus she was a party girl and he wanted to settle down and be a father. And then there was the infamous incident at the hotel room where he threw that TV out and got arrested…He was fighting with Kate.
the hotel incident was from 1994,nothing to do with the breakup in 1998. Kate makes it seem she ended it.
I remember she struggled with the break up and checked herself into the priory for unidentified issues which were rumoured to be mostly heartbreak over Johnny.
Aahhh.
Thanks for info everyone and thanks LAK for your kind thoughts re hurricane!
Re Rupert as name–one of the British names like Simon & Nigel that never caught on here. Always wonder why one name m akes the crossing but not others. Colin & Oliver made it but never Rupert or Nigel.
JD said in an interview that he and Kate weren’t good for each other. Though Kate has remained stunning, this interview didn’t indear me to Kate-she seems a bit one dimensional and using JD’s name to leverage her own. I have appreciated Vanessa Paradis interviews and her movie roles as of late. Though quirky and unconventional, Vanessa seems like someone I’d like to get to know–she seems intelligent and thoughtful. I’m not getting the same vibe from Kate.
He dumped her, more or less. Let’s face it, nobody leaves someone they are truly in love with.
Bardot inspired/ homage to Bardot it may be, but I don’t think she looks like her.
Kate Moss has striking facial bone structure. Wide-apart eyes, high cheek bones, face shape…& project woman-child aura, & may have similar coloring, but definitely doesn’t look like her.
(Nor did Claudia Schiffer for that matter.)
The highlight of story is not her husband or her current life but JD relationship from 1997 or something. That is what they highlight everywhere but she sound genuine in her expression though and she was hurt by the breakup.
This definetly puts JD in different light like he is a desireable man etc. Good for Johnny he was totally slipping with the whole mess thing lately.
Brigitte, honey. And yes, I believe she pulls it off. But the open dewiness of her default facial expression gives her SO much leverage. I’m not sure she actually has to “do” anything to pull off a photo shoot influenced by another star with a similarly sexy-popular way of holding her features.
This looks like a great interview actually. I especially love the “glamorizing the squat” quote; it’s a great giver of insight into the modeling scene at the time. I remember that sh*t and I remember real-life, pervasive heroin chic. …It’s interesting that the “tears” about Johnny were apparently only a result of losing him!…
She was my least favorite of the 90s supermodels. She is one of the few though that has aged surprisingly well. I don’t think this photoshoot does her current beauty justice.
That shoot looks weird. Weird style. Yep, doesn’t do her justice.
I like how she came to Naomi Campbell’s defense with the whole phone throwing scandal. I love that they are still friends and have been for all these years.
Naomi Campbell is gross, and so are her friends.
The hottest, coolest most gross girls on the planet.
I was talking to one of his personal friends and it was Johnny Depp who dumped Vanessa Paradis. This was said from the horses mouth.
I remember that indeed when they broke up out was said it was him who did the dumping.
I remember that indeed when they broke up it was said it was him who did the dumping.
Yes, he left her and had been dying to for a long time. Believe me, after Baby No. 2, he avoided her as much as possible, if not there would have been Baby No. 3, because Vanessa is that type, the type who keeps breeding to hold on to her man, but Johnny wisened up on her and prevented it.
Shame he lost who I believe was his true love, Kate Moss, because of Vanessa and his unfaithulness.
Kate had no alternative to leave Johnny because he was having an affair with Vanessa Paradis whilst shooting a Polanski film in Paris, and the ‘bit on the side’ got pregnant within 2 months. Kate was devastated,suicidal, was taken to The Priory clinic for months. Once the bit on the side (Vanessa) was conveniently pregnant on her part, he couldn’t go back to Kate, although he would have loved to, because even stronger was his need to have a baby, and Vanessa was like a leech, he couldn’t get rid of her, until recently, when the kids were old enough to understand daddy not wanting to be with mommy.