Kate Moss is best known for her successful modelling career from the 1990s onwards, but she admitted that her early days in the industry have had a lasting impact on her.
The British supermodel rose to fame after collaborations with the likes of Calvin Klein and Levi’s, but a gig from when she was 15 still affects her to this day.
Now 50, Moss opened up about the early job, which came soon after she was scouted at JFK Airport in New York when she was just 14.
Kate Moss rose to fame in the 90s (Taylor Hill/WireImage)
Originally from Croydon, South London, one of the biggest names in the fashion world spoke more about the nude cover shoot that she did for The Face magazine in 1990, taken by late photographer Corinne Day.
Moss revealed that not only was she a teenager at the time, but she was still in school when doing the shoot.
Admitting that she ‘really didn’t want to do it’, the model said: “I still, even after that shoot, I did cry a lot about taking my clothes off with her (Day).”
Explaining that it was her, Day, hairdresser Drew Jarett, and a make-up artist named Dick Page, Moss revealed: “I would make Drew turn around because he was straight and I was, like, ‘I’m not having him look at me’. I was really shy.”
The model opened up about having to do topless cover shoot aged 15 (PL Gould/IMAGES/Getty Images)
“I was 15 and topless in a magazine, and I was still in school. Luckily, The Face wasn’t sold in Croydon, so I don’t think anyone really saw it, but they heard about it,” she revealed.
In one of the photographs in question, the Brit can be seen covering herself with her hands and the help of a sun hat, while another shows the then-teenager topless, sporting a feathered headdress.
Speaking on Bella Freud’s podcast, Fashion Neurosis, Moss revealed: “At a very young age, I started doing pictures topless and I was very conscious that I have a mole on my right t** and I hated it so much I would cry.
“I never wanted to be topless. I would cry and I had to get over it because the photographer (Day) would be, like, ‘If you don’t do this, I’m not going to book you for the next job’, so I had to get over it.”
Moss’ daughter, Lila, is also a model (Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images)
Admitting that it was a ‘painful memory’, she also said that the fashion business did support her through more difficult moments, such as the drug scandal she was involved in during the mid-2000s.
After being dropped from a major fashion brand and booking herself into rehab after being branded ‘Cocaine Kate’, Moss said that she got a lot of support.
“When I had a bit of scandal, I had so much support from people in the fashion business,” she admitted/
“[As] soon as I was able to get back to work, I got booked by everybody. They were, like, ‘No we’re not going to let them cancel you’.”
