Kate Moss: I felt like the bee’s knees at school when I lost my virginity aged 14
IT was as a 14-year- old schoolgirl flying home from holiday that Kate Moss’s modelling potential was first spotted by an agent.
But three decades later, Miss Moss has revealed that shortly before that meeting, she had marked another milestone in her life – losing her virginity.
Miss Moss was discovered by Storm Models founder Sarah Doukas in 1988 strolling through JFK airport on the way back from a family break.
The model, now 44, said: ‘I was 14 and I’d just lost my virginity. So I thought I was the bee’s knees.
‘I was in the airport puffing away. I’d got on the plane and then Sarah’s brother came up to me and said “Have you ever thought about being a model?”’
Despite having since appeared on more
‘Bow legs and crooked teeth’
than 30 covers of British Vogue, Miss Moss was stunned at the time to have been scouted.
Asked if she had ever considered a career in the industry, she told Love Magazine: ‘Never, never, never. I was short, I had bow legs and crooked teeth and nobody thought I was the prettiest girl in the school. I was just really skinny, which was a disadvantage at the time.’
It was previously reported that Miss Moss lost her virginity in her early teens in a tell- all biography, Champagne Supernovas, by Maureen Callaghan – but the mother of one had never confirmed it herself until now.
The book, released in 2014, claimed to lift the lid on Miss Moss’s rise to prominence as a global fashion icon. It also detailed her wild partying habits and how she had consumed large amounts of drink and drugs.
In her latest interview, Miss Moss said she believed she had entered the modelling industry too young and would be reluctant to allow her daughter Lila Grace, now 15, to do the same today.
She added: ‘I mean, I was alone as well. I wouldn’t let my daughter do it that young. I was just thrown into an adult world.’
Miss Moss has gone on to appear on more than 100 magazine covers, but said she has only recently started to feel at ease in her job. Asked if she was confident in her abilities at the start of her career, she said: ‘No, not until much later. It’s not really until quite recently that I know, not that I’m good at it, but it is something that I can do. But that’s probably years and years of training.’
Despite 30 years in front of a lens, Miss Moss admitted that she hates camera phones. ‘I don’t see it as a friend. It’s always been more of a love/hate thing. It’s paparazzi and people at those parties and I don’t like it. Camera phones I don’t like. But when I’m at work it’s a whole different thing,’ she said.