Sunday, January 19, 2014

Kate Moss at 40... in Quotes...

As Kate Moss celebrates turning 40, we take a look back at some of the most insightful and infamous quotes the publicity-shy model has given us


Kate Moss is known for many things, but the spoken word isn't one of them.

Even in this age of social media, Moss has declined to sign up and share the slightest detail (though she does have a secret, protected Instagram account), something she credits to her most famous ex, Johnny Depp.

"He told me 'never complain, never explain'. That's why I don't use Twitter and things like that," she told Vanity Fair in 2012. "I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery."

But avoiding social media, arguably the source of many a newsworthy quote in this day and age, hasn't helped her to avoid quotation controversy.

When asked if she had any mottos by WWD in 2009, she tactlessly responded: "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." The comment sparked uproar and Moss was condemned for glamorizing and encouraging eating disorders.

Years of silence and a little controversy aside, when Moss has spoken, she's given us some tasty insights into her life and career, here are some of the best and what they say about her…

"I see a 16-year-old now and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, if you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again," she told Vanity Fair in 2012.

Sure, Moss may be known for her lack of inhibitions - it didn't take Playboy to get her full-frontal nude, she'd been doing it for years - but that hasn't always been the way. She was just 16 when she unwillingly shot her famed topless shoot for The Face with Corinne Day, the photos that launched her career. When the world's biggest model is questioning the industry's interaction with young models, surely that's a wake-up call.

Even in this age of social media, Moss has declined to sign up and share the slightest detail (though she does have a secret, protected Instagram account), something she credits to her most famous ex, Johnny Depp.
"He told me 'never complain, never explain'. That's why I don't use Twitter and things like that," she told Vanity Fair in 2012. "I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery."

But avoiding social media, arguably the source of many a newsworthy quote in this day and age, hasn't helped her to avoid quotation controversy.

When asked if she had any mottos by WWD in 2009, she tactlessly responded: "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." The comment sparked uproar and Moss was condemned for glamorising and encouraging eating disorders.

Years of silence and a little controversy aside, when Moss has spoken, she's given us some tasty insights into her life and career, here are some of the best and what they say about her…

"I see a 16-year-old now and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, if you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again," she told Vanity Fair in 2012.

Sure, Moss may be known for her lack of inhibitions - it didn't take Playboy to get her full-frontal nude, she'd been doing it for years - but that hasn't always been the way. She was just 16 when she unwillingly shot her famed topless shoot for The Face with Corinne Day, the photos that launched her career. When the world's biggest model is questioning the industry's interaction with young models, surely that's a wake-up call.

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