Kate Moss: beauty or beast?
In order to look exhausted, Moss turned to drugs.
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In the documentary "90x60x90: Beauties or Beasts?" REN TV will tell the stories of women who are obsessed with the idea of making their figure ideal.
Kate Moss is the only celebrity who did not hesitate to tell the whole world about her problem: for many years she suffered from anorexia, a mental illness in which a person strives to lose weight by any means. Kate admitted that she personally lost weight with the help of drugs - amphetamines and heroin, which dull the feeling of hunger. Thousands of girls around the world followed her example: they wanted to be like Moss. It got to the point that in America, the parents of girls who were hooked on a “drug diet” staged a protest rally, demanding that the image of the top model be removed from advertising billboards and not shown on television. As a result, five companies with which Kate Moss had contracts were quick to refuse her services. Now Kate is doing well: she has recovered from anorexia and drug addiction, has given birth to a daughter and is going to marry the father of her child.
Due to a strict diet, Allegra Versace, the heiress of the Versace fashion empire, was on the verge of death. Her mother Donatella a couple of years ago forcibly placed her daughter in a psychiatric clinic. Doctors barely managed to save the girl, whose internal organs had already begun to fail due to severe exhaustion.
Hollywood actresses Kate Beckinsale (“Pearl Harbor,” “The Aviator”), Nicole Richie, and Lindsay Lohan were once treated for anorexia. And 21-year-old fashion model Anna Carolina Reston, Giorgio Armani’s favorite model, died of hunger: fearing she would gain weight, she practically stopped eating, only allowing herself an apple or tomato once a day. In our country, anorexia is also on the list of popular diseases. Two years ago, student Lena died in Rostov-on-Don. At 17 years old and 155 centimeters tall, she weighed less than 30 kilograms. Her stepfather brought her to the hospital in his arms, since Lena could no longer walk on her own. And in the clinic she stopped breathing, despite all the efforts of the doctors...
But in most cases, girls obsessed with the idea of losing weight to Koshcheev parameters can be helped. Many managed to recover. In the film "90x60x90: Beauties or Beasts?" they will talk about their experiences. But psychiatrists and nutritionists will tell you how to avoid anorexia and keep fit in reasonable ways.
“War of the Sexes”: “90x60x90: Beauties or Beasts?”, Wednesday, evening, REN TV.
Kate Moss: heroin chic.
The personification of heroin chic and grunge in fashion. She challenged the established supermodel mold and conquered it, becoming one of the most successful fashion industry icons in its history. Androgynous Kate Moss.
Kate Moss began her modeling career by accident. She was born into a poor English family, at the age of 13 she experienced her parents’ divorce and did not seriously think about any podium. But already at 14, Kate received an offer to try herself as a model. And all thanks to a chance meeting at the airport. After the divorce, it was not easy for Kate’s mother to support herself and her children, because she worked as a waitress. However, she regularly saved money and tried with all her might to make the life of her family richer and better. That year she managed to save enough to take a vacation to the Bahamas.
Right at the airport, Sarah Doukas, who was then the head of one of the famous London agencies, noticed a slender young blonde - Kate Moss. The girl's biography has changed since then. Sarah took the aspiring model under her wing, a little time passed, and Kate began to appear on the covers of popular glossy publications.
She fell in with the trend: the early 1990s were marked by unisex fashion. Very thin, “boyish” looking girls walked along the catwalk. The “parent” of this trend was Calvin Klein, and Moss really liked the designer. He signed a contract with the British woman and made her the “face” of the new perfume. Androgyny was to Kate's advantage, and she tried in every possible way to emphasize it. Fame did not come easy to the girl. After one of the candid photo shoots, she experienced a psychological breakdown - she lay in bed for days, not going outside and forgetting to eat.
“If it was only about appearance, I would never have become a model - after all, many people consider me ugly. But what made me famous was my . In my youth, I looked this way because of painful shyness, and later - because this look began to bring me millions of dollars.”
But this emaciation also came in handy for model Kate Moss - pallor and an exhausted appearance were also valued (the so-called “heroin chic” ruled the day). So its popularity among designers was guaranteed. Not even great height (for a model) was Kate's trump card. She pushed the tall Schiffer, Evangelista and the like off the podium. Moss seemed like a "crowd girl" rather than a glamorous deity. And in everyday life, Kate became a style icon - her denim clothes and teenage image turned out to be an excellent example to follow.
But things got to the point that “heroin chic” was criticized by newspapers, which called it a “cynical trend” and attributed nihilism, and by US President Bill Clinton. He blamed the fashion industry for making drugs glamorous and sexy.
“I was a scapegoat. The media wanted to shift the responsibility onto someone else's shoulders, and I was chosen. They believed that they could write whatever their heart desired, that “thin” meant “anorexic.” This is ridiculous." - said Kate Moss.
She opened the way to the catwalk for not too tall models, proving that height is not the main thing in this matter. “This is a new type of beauty. Not an athletic superwoman, but something more sensual, fragile. She looks like a woman and a child at the same time. It’s this type of sexuality that fascinates,” Calvin Klein explained his choice of model. Kate was sexy, of course, but it was a constructed, casual sexuality. Not trying to please, not seducing, not descending from above, like a goddess - rather independent and lost, Kate looked like a girl from the street who miraculously ended up on the cover.
“She goes against everything she should be. She's small, she has a hard look, an irregular face, and that's actually her advantage because people see themselves in her. She falls out of the alienation and duplicity of the fashion world,” British publicist John Morley wrote about Moss.
And Kate Moss’s personal life can be called stormy without a stretch. At 17, she dated her photographer, Mario Sorrenti, but the relationship quickly ended. Then Kate met the rapidly growing popularity of Johnny Depp.
Their couple became a favorite object of surveillance for annoying paparazzi. There was everything: passion, jealousy, scandals, wild joint parties and public fights - “romance”.
“I knew from the first moment we spoke that we would be together. I've never had this feeling before. We just sat down and started talking, sheer nonsense. I don't remember how it all happened. But after that we never parted,” Kate recalled about meeting Johnny.
The relationship with Depp lasted 4 years. The lovers then broke up, then got back together, never tired of surprising both each other and the press. But ultimately the union fell apart. Johnny met Vanessa Paradis, and Kate went all out.
Apparently, Johnny Depp remained the main man in Kate's life. Even years after the breakup, she spoke of her former lover with great tenderness: “There was no one in the whole wide world who cared about me, who really cared about me. And Johnny was the first to show that he cared about me. I believed every word he said. I asked his advice on what to do in a given situation, and I always did what he told me,” the model said back in 2012.
In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine, she admitted that it took her years to get over her breakup with Depp: “When we broke up, I didn’t have anyone left that I could trust. It was an endless nightmare: many years of tears. It’s scary to remember!”
The peak of Kate Moss's fame came in the 90s, but her popularity practically did not decline in the next decade. Kate turned into a cult supermodel and did not lose competition even to young stars.
Lady Gaga coped with drug addiction
One of the most outrageous singers in the world, American star Lady Gaga, told how she overcame drug addiction, writes livestory.com.ua.
“Sometimes I remember - and it terrifies me, or rather, stuns me - how I spent all day in my apartment with bedbug bites all over my body, cockroaches on the floor and a bunch of cocaine and was not interested in anything except music and drugs.
So I’ve come a really long way, and for that I have to thank my friends and God,” admitted 24-year-old Lady Gaga in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
The girl, once known as Stefani Joanna Angelina Germanotta, is ready to show with all her appearance that Lady Gaga is a real work of art and this art is not some kind of fake or fiction, but her own life as it is.
This life cannot be called simple. Her grandfather is now in the hospital, her father recently underwent heart surgery, and the blonde herself has been diagnosed with lupus, a dangerous autoimmune disease from which her aunt died several years ago.
Add in her insane popularity, a relentless work schedule, endless touring, and the fact that Gaga recently finished demoing her next album, and you get the image of a celebrity under time pressure.
However, the artist herself sees no reason to worry.
“Who said you can’t write new songs while touring? This is how they make a career. “I’m already preparing space for new platinum discs,” Lady Gaga says.
She is not afraid of excessive media attention, and refutes many of the journalists’ conjectures.
“I realized that they couldn’t do anything with me when there was talk that I was a hermaphrodite. There were scratches on my hands, and everyone immediately decided that these were marks from heroin injections. They're actually from costumes.
And when I fainted on stage, they immediately began to say that I was exhausted. First of all, I have health problems. And secondly, it’s wildly hot on stage, and by the way, I bust my ass there every evening. I heard that Audrey Hepburn kept fainting during filming. For some reason, there was no talk of exhaustion back then,” says the star.
Lady Gaga doesn't want her fans to perceive her as a flesh-and-blood woman. She doesn't even drink water on stage.
“If, God forbid, I get hurt on stage and my fans are waiting for me at the hospital doors, believe me, I will come out of there like Gaga should. I won’t walk around in sweatpants because I sprained my ankle,” the singer assures.
She's not one of those people who doesn't remember where she came from. The star values her past.
“I always have one foot in New York. I live in Hollywood, but no one can force me to love this place. I will never love him."
Kate Moss
Photo: East News
Supermodel Kate Moss admits that she hates overly complex images, which make her very tired while working, so in everyday life she strives for brevity. She calls jeans, plain T-shirts, oversized jackets, leather jackets and hats her favorite things, and she appears in casual outfits not only on the city streets, but also at parties. But even her haters cannot accuse Kate Moss of monotony: despite the fact that the model knows exactly what clothes she will look impeccable in, she is not afraid of bold decisions, so she often experiments with unusual styles, accessories and prints - her favorite throughout The leopard has been a predatory leopard for many years.
Regina Todorenko
We will not recall the details of the scandal with Regina Todorenko regarding statements about domestic violence - you can read briefly about it here and here. The TV presenter’s fall from the Olympus of love and recognition began with the formal deprivation of her title “Woman of the Year.” Bigger problems were not long in coming.
Manufacturers of diapers and juice turned their backs on Todorenko - only the last contract cost the girl about 19 million rubles. Other brands friendly to Regina did not speak out - according to experts, in the worst case, the star would have lost 40% of her income. Now Todorenko’s reputation is being restored - she supports anti-violence foundations and recently appeared on the cover of a glossy magazine.
Stars lost millions and advertising due to scandals: Regina Todorenko advertised diapers and juices. Photo: Instagram
