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Kate Moss is an English model who rose to fame fashion industry in the early 1990s, with campaigns for popular designers including Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Calvin Klein, Chanel and Rimmel. Here are 50 interesting facts about Moss and her journey in the fashion world.
- Kate Moss was born on January 16, 1974 to Linda Rosina and Peter Edward Moss in Croydon, Greater London.
- She grew up in Addiscombe area of the borough. When she was 13, her parents filed for divorce.
- She went to Ridgeway Primary School and Riddlesdown Collegiate in Purley.
- At the age of 14, she was discovered at JFK Airport in New York, by Sarah Doukas, the founder of Storm Model Management. She was returning from Bahamas to England, after a family holiday.
- That day, she recollects her mom telling that “If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm [her mother] not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.”
- She has two siblings – a younger brother Nick, who was once a model, and a half-sister Charlotte, known by the name Lottie. Both her siblings were signed with Storm Model Management as a model.
- She starred with her brother in a Versace campaign.
- Corinne Day clicked black and white photographs of Moss for The Face, in the shoot titled “The 3rd Summer of Love,” which was styled by Melanie Ward, when she was just 16.
- Day described Moss’ pictures when she was young as “dirty realism” or grunge.”
- She is known for her waifish figure and her part in the size zero fashion.
- Moss went again for The Face shoot entitled “Haute Coiffure” by Tony Briggs.
- Her first serious boyfriend was said to be Clark Gregory, a Croydon local three years older than, who is thought to have bought her a bottle of peach schnapps for her 16th birthday.
- She became the anti-supermodel, in contrast to the other models known for their curvaceous and tall figures.
- In the year 1994, she met Hollywood actor Johnny Depp, with whom she had a romantic relationship. The relationship lasted for a few years, and her 21st birthday party was thrown by Depp for her at the Viper Room.
- In 1995, she received the "Fashion Personality of the Year" award, while the next year she received the "Model of the Year" award at the VH1 Fashion Awards.
- She ranked #22 in the FHM’s list of 100 Sexiest Women of 1995.
- In the year 1996, with a campaign for Calvin Klein, she was featured in the heroin chic. Talking about this, she once said “It was just the time. It was a swing from more buxom girls like Cindy Crawford and people were shocked to see what they called a 'waif'. What can you say? How many times can you say 'I'm not anorexic'?”
- Moss has been on the cover of over 300 magazines and had been as a part of the Italian, British, American and French campaigns.
- She has graced the British Vogue editions’ cover for around 30 times and has been features on the W cover for over 17 times. Among the 17 is one edition, in which there were nine different cover editions with Moss in every cover.
- Moss and Depp broke up in the year 1998, as Depp couldn’t take all her partying and clinginess. Depp is said to have call Moss “a crazy bitch,” to her friend, which Moss doesn’t believe.
- It is after her break up with Depp that she threw herself into partying much, and had to check into a rehab at The Priory in November 1998. "Kate's burned out" explained her agency. "She wanted to re-evaluate her life, and so put herself in a situation where she's able to do that."
- The next year, she was back to her catwalk and even racked up a six-figure fee for L’Oreal hair commercial. The American edition of Vogue featured her on the cover.
- Actress/Designer Sadie Frost, model Frankie Rayder, and designer Stella MacCartney are her best friends.
- She ranked #9 in the Maxim's 50 Sexiest Women of 1999.
- In 2000, she had to quit briefly as she was hospitalized due to kidney infection.
- In the year 2001, she met magazine journalist Jefferson Hack. The couple had a romantic relationship for a few years. The duo has a daughter Lila Grace Moss Hack, born on September 29, 2002.
- In 2005, she appeared in a Rimmel London mascara TV ad, in which she was featured motorcycling through London to the rock song "Another Cold Beer" by Steven Crayn.
- She won the Vogue/CFDA award from the Fashion Designers of America in July 2005 as Fashion Inspiration.
- She ranked #1 in the Vogue's list of "Best Dressed Personalities" in the 2005.
- Her naked portrait painted by Lucian Freud was sold for $7.2 million by Christie's in London in February 2005.
- She is the godmother to her best-friend Frost and Jude Law's daughter Iris, 13. Law and Frost are godparents to her daughter, Lila Grace. After Law got divorced from Frost, Moss relieved him of his duties as a godfather. As of now, Bobby Gillespie is Lila Grace’s godfather.
- She met Rock Star Pete Doherty at her 31st birthday party in January 2005, with whom she had a romantic relationship.
- Moss was reportedly pictured snorting cocaine with Doherty and was involved in a scandal.
- Following this, her working partners H & M, Burberry, H Stern and Chanel fired her from her contract. However, the British Police dropped all charges on Moss on June 16, 2006, due to lack of proper evidence.
- She has been mentioned two songs as of now - “Intuition” by Jewel Kilcher and "Everything's Just Wonderful" by Lily Allen.
- In 2006, Forbes magazine named her as the best paid model in the entire world, as her net worth was estimated to be 50 million as of 2005.
- After a period of 12 months due to this cocaine scandal, she resumed her modeling career and signed contracts with Rimmel, Agent Provocateur, Virgin Mobile, Calvin Klein and Burberry.
- The same year, she gave a helping hand to launch the SamandRuby charity, started with the sole purpose of funding for the education and shelter of Thai children. The charity is named after Moss’s friend Samantha Archer Fayet, and her 6-month-old daughter Ruby Rose, who were victims of Tsunami, during their visit to Thailand.
- Moss and Doherty announced that they were engaged on 11 April 2007 at Doherty’s concert. Due to her relationship with Doherty, her friendship with her long-time friend Frost ended.
- Moss gifted Doherty with a helicopter flight for his 28th birthday, just before they split up in July 2007.
- In 2007, she was reported to be the second highest paid model in the world, behind Gisele Bündchen, with estimated earnings of $9 million.
- She was ranked #99 in the list of Richest Woman in Britain, and also one of the world’s 100 most influential people, according to Forbes.
- She released her own picture book called Kate: The Kate Moss Story. She supports the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the Hoping Foundation, the Lucie Blackman Trust, Make Poverty History, Comic Relief and Homes of Hope.
- She hates social media, and says "I couldn't think of anything worse than people knowing what I'm doing all the time."
- She designed a collection of clothes exclusively for the TopShop chain, which was launched across the UK in the chain's 225 stores on May 1, 2007.
- She was named the second top-earning model in the world by Forbes.
- An 18 carat gold statue of Moss, worth $2.8 million was sculpted in the year 2008 for a British Museum.
- In the year 2011, she married Jamie Hince, guitarist for the Kills, at the St Peter’s Church. She now resides with her husband and daughter in Highgate, North London, in a £8 million house. She bought the house from a Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
- The same year, she made a short film with Misery bear for Comic Relief event entitled "Misery Bear's Comic Relief Starring Kate Moss."
- At the age of 40, she was the face of Matchless's 115th anniversary campaign alongside male model Clément Chabernaud, this year. This is her fourth campaign for the British motorcycle brand since its foundation in 1899.
