KATE: I FLED PHOTO CREEP AT 15
Model’s teenage trauma
KATE Moss has told how a vile photographer once told her to take her bra off when she was 15.
The supermodel recalled the unsettling underwear catalogue shoot for today’s episode of Desert Island Discs.
Kate, now 48, said: “He said, ‘Take your top off’ and I took my top off. I was really shy then about my body and he said, ‘Take your bra off’. I could feel there was something wrong so I got my stuff and I ran off.
“I can tell a wrong ’un a mile away.”
Kate also told how she has bad memories of a later job, when she posed topless with actor Mark Wahlberg for a Calvin Klein advert in 1992.
Speaking to host Lauren Laverne on the Radio 4 programme, Kate said she felt “vulnerable and scared” before the shoot and had been prescribed Valium.
Kate is now an agent and her daughter Lila, 19, is a client.
“I’ve said to her you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to,” she said. “If you don’t want to do this shoot, if you don’t feel comfortable, if you don’t want to model, don’t.
“I take care of my models. I make sure they’re with agents at shoots so when they are being taken advantage of, there is someone there to say, ‘I don’t think that’s appropriate’.”
Kate said she had been made a scapegoat for other people’s problems in the 90s when she was criticised for allegedly glorifying being thin and drug use, after a photo of her in her underwear appeared in print.
In recent years, she has also distanced herself from her controversial “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” mantra.
Kate told Lauren: “I was never anorexic, I never have been. I had never taken heroin. I was thin because I didn’t get fed at shoots and I had always been thin.” Of the semi-nude picture, she said: “It was shot at my flat. That is how I could afford to live at the time.”
Kate also discussed a photograph of her taking cocaine in a studio with her then-boyfriend, rocker Pete Doherty.
Kate said: “I felt sick and was quite angry. Everybody I knew took drugs. To focus on me and try to take my daughter away I thought was really hypocritical.”
She also said she defended her ex Johnny Depp, 59, in his recent libel case against his ex-wife, because: “He never kicked me down the stairs. I had to say that.”
Kate’s disc selection included Bowie’s Life On Mars? Her book was The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-exupery and a cashmere blanket was her luxury item.
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