Sunday Mail (UK)

MumM Kate could turn out to be a super role model

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In a rare interview, Kate Mo Moss has told how sh she felt pressured into mo modelling topless as a tee teenager.

AAnd she wouldn’t let he her 15-year-old daughter do it now.

SShe said: “I worked

They were being paid to seduce her to sign up, to leave one ludicrousl­y expensive supplier for another, with the vague promise of saving some money on her gas and leccy.

And what pensioner doesn’t worry about cash? My mother would hobble across four lanes of traffic in belting rain to save 20p on a bowl of soup. She’s a hardcore worrier about cash.

But last month, ScottishPo­wer and Scottish Gas both announced their second price hike of 2018.

In fact, four of the “big six” providers have done this, news to bring sleepless nights to anyone on limited income.

And there’s nothing like a change with a woman photograph­er called Corinne Day and she always liked me with no top on and I did not like it at all when I first started.”

And, 30 years on, she would tell other young models that they don’t More than anything, it has shown me that senior citizens must be far better protected. So it’s good news that Scotland’s Justice Minister Humza Yousaf is considerin­g the introducti­on of “age-aggravated” offences, with tougher sentences for those who target elderly victims. If we were to adopt the idea, a recommenda­tion from a crime review by retired judge Lord Bracadale, we would be one of the first jurisdicti­ons in the world to do so. Nothing that happened to my mother was illegal, of course. I’d argue over the morals but nothing was illegal. Still, a change in the law would be laying down a marker, a recognitio­n that the elderly may be more vulnerable and are entitled to special protection – so tread carefully. We live in an ageing population. The way we treat our old folk is a measure of our society. We’ll be old ourselves one day, if we manage to keep heat in our homes and keep the hustlers at bay. have to do it. No doubt motherhood has made Kate reflect on her early days.

But the truth behind those “iconic” images should change the way we view them too.

Not as the first steps to an amazing career. But as a barely 16-year-old who felt she had to take her clothes off. How sad.

Let’s hope other girls heed her advice now.

She could yet be a supermodel turned role model.

 ??  ?? NAKED NA TR TRUTH Mo Moss as teen teenager r OOPS.. SHE DID IT AGAIN Britney’s Instagram photo
NAKED NA TR TRUTH Mo Moss as teen teenager r OOPS.. SHE DID IT AGAIN Britney’s Instagram photo
 ??  ?? FLAMING CHEEK Energy firms have increased prices
FLAMING CHEEK Energy firms have increased prices

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