Supermodel: I may have aided pests

SUPERMODEL Christy Turlington said she may have unwittingly aided predatory men in the fashion industry as they preyed on young models.

Miss Turlington said she might have played a ‘honey pot’ role by which her presence lulled younger women into a false sense of security – similar to a ploy used by Harvey Weinstein.

The 48-year-old American, one of the world’s most successful models in the 1980s and 1990s, said the fashion world was ‘surrounded by predators’.

She told fashion industry magazine Women’s Wear Daily: ‘In hindsight, I fear I may have played the “honeypot” that has been described in the stories about these predators who make women feel protected. Unknowingly, but still an accomplice of sorts. I might have been the assurance that made other young women feel safer.’

She added: ‘The industry is surrounded by predators who thrive on the constant rejection and loneliness so many of us have experienced. If I’d known how these men thought and behaved, I might have done more to stay clear of them.’