Kate Moss Opens Up About Traumatizing Experience During A Photo Shoot As A 15-Year-Old Model: ‘I Did Cry A Lot’

Kate Moss is undoubtedly one of the most iconic models of the 90s – and we know she has more than a few stories to tell! However, some stories are more personal and emotional than others; and she recently opened up about a traumatic modeling experience she had when she was just 15 years old on an episode of the Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud podcast.

The now 50-year-old model, who we think is definitely more than comfortable in her own skin now, recalled how she was being pushed to pose topless at the age of just 15, despite telling British fashion photographer Corinne Day that it made her feel extremely uncomfortable.

The Charlotte Tilbury model explained that she told Day that she “never wanted to be topless” while being photographed for The Face magazine, after which Day allegedly told her that she could lose future job opportunities if she didn’t do what she was told.

“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 recalled, adding that she soon discovered: “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.”

Moss referenced how she also felt self-conscious about posing topless due to a mole she had on her right breast. “I hated it so much, I would cry,” she said. “I still, even after that shoot, I did cry a lot about taking my clothes off. I really didn’t want to do it,” she added.