Kate Moss was just 14 years old when she was scouted by the owner of the modeling agency Storm at JFK International Airport.
Of course, Kate went on to have a wildly successful career as a legendary model and has been the face of many iconic campaigns over the years.
A couple of years ago, Kate opened up about posing topless during a 1992 photoshoot with Mark Wahlberg for Calvin Klein.
When asked if she felt “objectified” during the shoot, Kate, who was 18 at the time, told the BBC, “Yeah, completely. And vulnerable and scared. … I think they played on my vulnerability.”
Now, Kate has opened up about another photo shoot that left her feeling uncomfortable.
Appearing on the Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud podcast last week, Kate, now 50, recalled feeling insecure when posing for the Face magazine at just 15 years old. She was pictured by British fashion photographer Corinne Day.
“At a very young age, I started working, and I started doing pictures topless. And I was very, very conscious of a mole I have on my right tit. I hated it so much, I would cry,” she said.
“I never wanted to be topless; I would cry. And I had to get over it because the photographer was like, ‘If you don’t do this, I’m not gonna book you for the next job,’” she shared. “So, I had to get over it.”
“As a model, you can’t be very self-conscious because your body’s kind of not your own when you’re a vessel for somebody else’s imagination,” she added.
Kate went on to note that her younger brother, Nick Moss, was made fun of in school after she posed topless for the magazine.
“I was 15, and I was topless in a magazine, and I was still at school… Luckily, the Face wasn’t really sold in Croydon,” she said, referring to the London town where she was born and raised. “I don’t think anyone really saw it. But I mean, they heard… They took the piss out of my brother. He probably suffered more than I did about it.”
Kate then recalled asking her hairdresser, Drew Jarrett, to “turn around” while she was posing for photos topless.
“I’d make Drew turn around ‘cause he was straight, and I was like, ‘I’m not having him look at me,’” she said.
“I was really shy, but it was like family; I’d worked with them so many times already that I knew them really well,” she said, referring to her hairdresser, makeup artist, and photographers. “But still, even after that shoot, I did cry a lot about taking my clothes off… I really didn’t wanna do it.”
