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Too skinny? Kate blames fashion world
Danny Brierley, Evening Standard28.08.08
Kate Moss has joined a growing new trend by blaming the fashion industry for being too skinny.
The supermodel, who rarely speaks to the media, told Interview magazine in America that the hectic modelling life made her unintentionally thin.
Moss, 34, said: "I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose. You'd be on a shoot with bad food or get on a plane and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it.
"When I was doing shows ... nobody ever fed me ... I remember standing up in the bath one day, I was so thin! I was never anorexic ... I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny."
Moss's comments come as fellow supermodel Karen Elson has accused the fashion industry of encouraging models to be unhealthily thin.
She tells Vogue: "I felt like absolute shit as a teenager and all I had around me was people telling me I was right. I remember I came back from a job in Paris and the stylist said to me, 'have you been eating too many croissants, Karen?'"
Elson, 29, who is married to rock star Jack White and has two children, has described in the past how she became bulimic and took laxatives after being told to lose weight at 18.
Last year a committee was formed to improve the health of models at London Fashion Week.
But plans for a health certificate for models has been rejected by Milan, Paris and New York.
• A gold statue of Moss will be the centrepiece of a new exhibition at the British Museum.
The Marc Quinn sculpture, part of which is pictured left, is one of a group by artists including Damien Hirst and Antony Gormley in the Statuephilia exhibition.
The life-sized statue will be displayed with carvings of Greek beauties to highlight Moss's status as an "an Aphrodite of our times". Statuephilia opens on 4 October.
Reader views (1)
I don't get the obsession with androgynous, thin models. Many of them aren't even pretty any more! What's happened since the days of Cindy Crawford, Elle McPherson, Naomi Campbell et al. These girls had lovely figures, slim but not thin and all very pretty. I don't get how these alien-like rakes that now walk the catwalk actually sell clothes? who would want to look like that?
- Kitty, London
