Kate Moss has spoke out about being “objectified” as a young 15 year old model looking to start out in the fashion industry.
The supermodel, now 48, recalled a painful moment from her teen years where she was left feeling uncomfortable and “sexualised” by a photographer.
Having been scouted on a flight from New York to London at the age of just 14, Kate had been quite fresh to the industry at the time of the frightful encounter and didn’t know how to respond.
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During an interview with Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, the runway icon opened up about the harrowing experience which left her in floods of tears.
Speaking to the host, Kate told her: “He said, ‘Take your top off’, and I took my top off, and I was really shy then about my body.”
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“And he said, ‘Take your bra off’, and I could feel there was something wrong, so I got my stuff and I ran away.”
While Kate had been shaken by the behaviour of the photographer, she feels the incident gave her instincts that have remained with her throughout adulthood.
She explained her judgement had now been “sharpened” and she could therefore “tell a wrong ‘un from a mile away”.
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After Kate had been discovered at 14, her first big deal gig was when she landed the cover shoot for The Face magazine.
But the Rimmel London star didn’t always have the easiest of working relationships with the late photographer Corinne Day.
Casting an eye back on her career, she added: “I cried a lot. I didn’t want to take my top off. I was really, really self-conscious about my body, and she would say, ‘If you don’t take your top off I’m not going to book you for Elle’, and I would cry.
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“It was painful because she was my best friend and I really loved her, but she was a very tricky person to work with.
“But the pictures are amazing: she got what she wanted and I suffered for them, but in the end they did me a world of good. They changed my career.”
In 2016, Kate decided to launch her own modelling company which aims to ensure all of her own talent scouts feel at ease and comfortable while shooting – with model’s allowed to invite chaperones along.
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