She was the face of the 90s, epitomised the heroin chic look and has been criticised over the years for promoting anorexia and an unhealthy body image but if we ever needed proof that Kate Moss is getting better with age, her latest cover shoot with American magazine Vanity Fair is it.
Styled like 60s bombshell Brigitte Bardot, Moss reveals that she wasn’t always so comfortable with the more risqué side of modelling and confesses that she suffered a form of nervous breakdown after shooting the iconic Calvin Klein ad campaign with Mark Wahlberg in 1992. “I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn’t feel like me at all. I felt really bad straddling this buff guy. I didn’t like it. I couldn’t get out of bed for two weeks. I thought I was going to die. It was just anxiety. Nobody takes care of you mentally. There’s a massive pressure to do what you have to do.”
Starring in one of the most iconic ad campaigns of the 90s with Mark Wahlberg
The model also gives details on her four-year relationship with Johnny Depp and the devastating effect their break-up had on her. “There’s nobody that’s ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, ‘What do I do?’ – he’d tell me. And that’s what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust. Nightmare. Years and years of crying. Oh, the tears…”
Kate who is mother to 11-year-old Lila Grace married Kills frontman Jamie Hince in a star-studded ceremony in the Cotswolds in 2011.
