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Despite being the ‘queen’ of the catwalk for three decades, the once-shy model Kate Moss reveals that she too has been forced to use the popular unofficial motto: ‘Never complain, never explain.’
In a recent interview, the supermodel reveals the toxic reality of exploitation in the fashion industry and how she became the object of sexual predators’ interest when she was a teenager.
Now 48 years old, she remembers how she was forced to cry in front of photographers when they pressured her to go topless. At the age of 15, the conscientious teenager was forced to leave a photo shoot when she was asked to remove her underwear.
“I had a terrible experience with an underwear catalogue,” she said in an interview with BBC Radio 4.
“I was only 15 years old and he told me ‘Take off your shirt.’ I took it off even though I was very shy about my body at the time. But he went on to say ‘Put the booties away’, and I knew something was wrong so I grabbed my booty and ran away. This seems to have sharpened my instincts and I could recognize the ‘wrong’ from afar”.
The teenage Kate signed with the Storm agency in 1988 at the age of 14 and since then has been doing several modeling assignments every day.
She goes on to tell how photographer Corinne Day did a shoot with her for ‘The Face’ magazine when she was 16 years old.
The model remembers how she cried all the time because she didn’t want to be naked: “I didn’t want to undress, but she told me ‘if you don’t take off your top, I won’t make it to Elle magazine,’ and I cried.” It was painful because for me she was my best friend, but in the end she got what she wanted and my career continued.”
Moss says she always felt like an object during the photo campaign: “Yes, I was helpless and terrified all the time, but I was young and innocent and they loved that,” she says of a campaign with Calvin.
And consequently Moss’s success was always accompanied by struggles with alcohol and drugs that nearly destroyed her career.
Moss recalls growing up in Croydon, south London, and ‘going off the rails’ after her parents divorced aged 13.
While a drug scandal in 2005 caused her to temporarily lose her employment contracts, after a national newspaper published photos of her apparently snorting cocaine.
“I was very angry because everyone knew that I was taking drugs, but they attacked me and even wanted to take my daughter, it was very hypocritical”, she remembers.
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