Kate Moss, curvier and healthier
No longer waif-thin, supermodel Kate Moss has swopped her hard-partying lifestyle for yoga, gym and green smoothies GINGER BEER
SHE was the poster girl for heroin chic, all hollow cheeks, jutting hipbones and kohl-smudged eyes. She was also the party girl to end all party girls, falling from cabs, going for bad boys, hanging with a racy crowd and choosing drugs, booze and ciggies over a wholesome meal any day. Yet anyone can turn over a new leaf if they put their mind to it – and it seems Kate Moss (44) is no exception.
The woman sunning herself on the deck of a yacht in the south of France is almost unrecognisable from the waif who dominated the runway for decades.
Sun-kissed, make-up free and sporting healthy curves in a skimpy bikini, Kate looked healthy and happy as she enjoyed a bit of downtime with her boyfriend, Count Nikolai von Bismarck (31), her daughter, Lila Grace (16), and a few pals in the azure waters off Saint-Tropez.
“Kate isn’t drinking anymore; she’s fully clean,” her half-sister, model Lottie Moss (20), said recently. “She’s settled down and is happy with her new guy.”
There’s no denying Kate’s hard partying days also took a toll on her famous looks and she’s embarked on her new healthy regime to reverse some of the damage.
“Kate isn’t nearly as wild as people think,” a source told Daily Mail. “Of course she loves a good party – who doesn’t – but she’s barely drinking at all now.”
Instead she’s taken up yoga, hits the gym three times a week, downs a nutrient-rich green juice every morning and has ditched the alcohol and smokes. Well, mostly – one pic of her in Saint-Tropez showed a cigarette in her hand.
But generally she’s on the straight and narrow and following in the footsteps of her bestie, actress Sadie Frost (53), who’s devoted to her new holistic lifestyle.
“Sadie went teetotal and started doing yoga, and Kate’s doing an 80:20 version,” the source explained. That’s 80% holistic with a smidge of hair-let-down time.
Kate’s clearly taking her new outlook seriously. At her daughter’s recent 16th birthday celebrations at a London restaurant, she was spotted sipping nonalcoholic ginger beer.
Clearly it’s doing her good. Not only is she sporting a healthy glow, she’s sleeping better and has more energy.
“Nobody wants to feel rubbish, and Kate’s looks are her fortune,” the source says. “So, of course she’s looking after her health – she’d be crazy not to invest in staying as gorgeous as she can for as long as she can.”
KATE skyrocketed to supermodel superstardom as a teen after being discovered at New York’s JFK Airport when she was just 14. She went on to feature in ad
campaigns and on catwalks for the likes of Chanel, Burberry and Dior, and her face was everywhere – on billboards, gracing the covers of glossy fashion mags and in ads for anything from jeans to perfume.
Her private life was almost as high profile. She jumped from one grungy boyfriend to the next and hung out with the so-called Primrose Hill set – an ultra-chic clique that congregated in the north London area and included Sadie, her one-time husband, actor Jude Law (45), and Elementary actor Johnny Lee Miller (45).
“They all partied together; they all slept together,” an insider told Maureen Callahan, author of Champagne Supernovas which detailed the lives of the ’90s fashion elite. “It was a very soulless life they led.”
And it all caught up with Kate in 2005 when grainy images of her snorting white powder with her rocker ex-boyfriend Pete Doherty were splashed across the front pages of British tabloids.
She was dropped by several major brands, including Chanel, Burberry and H&M, and had to submit to a police investigation. Fortunately she was cleared of all charges and a grovelling public apology was able to salvage her remaining campaigns.
But neither the “Cocaine Kate” scandal nor the fact she was now the mother of a toddler – the product of a romance with publisher Jefferson Hack (now 47) – was enough for her to ditch her wild ways.
Reports of out-of-control parties and paparazzi snaps of a gaunt, sicklooking Kate remained tabloid fodder for years – as did Kate’s love-life.
After she split from Pete she found love again with The Kills guitarist Jamie Hince (49). They wed in 2011 but called it quits four years later.
Then in 2015 she met Nikolai, a German aristocrat and photographer, whose mom, Countess Debonnaire von Bismarck, is a friend of Kate.
Despite predictions that things wouldn’t last, they’re still inseparable and engagement rumours have been swirling.
Pals say Nikolai is a big part of the reason Kate has started focusing on her health.
“She’s been sober since Christmas supposedly – it was a condition of her relationship with Nikolai,” a friend told The New York Post. “She drank tea at all her Christmas parties and everyone is saying she’s in the best form she’s ever been.”
HER altered lifestyle hasn’t done Kate’s bank balance or career any harm. After raking in £8,8 million (R145,2 million) in 2017, she recently reclaimed her status as the UK’s highest-paid model.
Kate was knocked off the top spot by Cara Delevingne (26) and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (31) last year, according to numbers crunched by lingerie brand Bluebella. The brand’s research showed Kate was surpassed by the younger British bombshells because they were more social media savvy.
Still, Kate refused to bow to pressure and share her life with all and sundry, preferring to “maintain her mystique”, according Bluebella chief executive Emily Bendell.
Not that her decision to steer clear of social media has dissuaded her daughter and friends from using the channels. Lila has a private Instagram account but Kate’s goddaughter, Iris (Sadie and Jude Law’s 17-year-old daughter), had no qualms about Instagramming up a storm on their trip to the south of France.
One shot shows Lila merrily eating Nutella hazelnut spread from a jar – something her mom, who popularised the phrase “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”, might once have shuddered at.
But Kate recently backtracked on the controversial statement. “There’s so much more diversity now and I think it’s right,” she told NBC’s Megyn Kelly.
“There are so many different sizes and colours and heights. Why would you just be a one-size model?”
As she’s proving, why indeed.