
Despite being an iconic it-girl of the '90s, Kate Moss is a woman of very few words.
Over her almost 30-year career, the supermodel has kept interviews limited and rarely discusses her relationships or family life.
But because Moss was (and still is) one of the most recognisable faces in fashion, her life outside of modelling has always been of interest.
Including her rise to fame, high-profile relationships and near-identical daughter, here's a look inside the life and loves of Kate Moss.
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Rise to fame.
In 1988, at 14 years old, Moss was famously scouted by Sarah Doukas, the founder of Storm Management at JFK Airport in New York.
"I was smoking," the model recalled toLovemagazine, according to Harper's Bazaar UK ."I was 14 and I'd just lost my virginity. So I thought I was the bees knees.
"I was in the airport puffing away. I'd got on the plane and then Sarah [Doukas'] brother came up to me and said, 'Have you ever thought about being a model?'"
She was almost immediately signed to the agency.
Four years later, Moss became the face of Calvin Klein after her first boyfriend, Mario Sorrenti, shot the famous Obsession perfume ad.
"It was young love," Moss said in an interview on Megyn Kelly TODAY. "We were so innocent and young and so excited about the work, about everything. Everything was so new to us."
However, the relationship wasn't all rosy.
"I'd wake up in the morning and he'd be taking pictures of me, and I'd be like 'f**k off,'" Moss told Nick Knight. "I laid like that for about 10 days. He would not stop taking pictures of that.
"When you're in a relationship with a photographer and they start abusing that relationship of being like, 'I want you to do this', and 'I want you to do that'... and like, no - you can't," she added.
Not long after, Moss appeared in the iconic black and white Calvin Klein underwear campaigns alongside Mark Wahlberg.
"I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18 when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts,” Moss told Vanity Fair in 2012. "It didn’t feel like me at all. I felt really bad about 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. I went to the doctor, and he said, 'I’ll give you some Valium,' and [photographer] Francesca Sorrenti, thank God, said, 'You’re not taking that.' It was just anxiety. Nobody takes care of you mentally. There’s a massive pressure to do what you have to do. I was really little, and I was going to work with Steven Meisel," Moss continued.
"It was just really weird - a stretch limo coming to pick you up from work. I didn’t like it. But it was work, and I had to do it," she added.
Four years with Johnny Depp.
In 1994, 20-year-old Moss started dating 31-year-oldEdward Scissorhandsstar, Johnny Depp.
The pair met at Café Tabac in New York City's East Village.
“I knew from the first moment we talked that we were going to be together,” the model told Spin magazine.
Two weeks later, Moss attended the premiere of Depp's filmBanter, followed by an after-party at the Viper Room (the LA nightclub which Johnny Depp owned at the time and where River Phoenix died four months earlier).
The couple went on to travel together and attend various premieres side by side.
However, at the same time as their relationship took off, Depp began being branded with a bad boy title.
In September 1994, Depp was arrested for criminal mischief at New York's Mark Hotel for reportedly trashing his hotel room. Police found him "in a state of possible intoxication" with Moss, unharmed.
"It has absolutely nothing to do with Kate," Depp later said, according to Fred Vermorel in Kate Moss: Addicted to Love ."You want to hear the honest truth about what happened in that hotel? There was a cockroach in that room the size of a baseball, and I was chasing it, and I missed."
In January 1995, Depp hosted a 21st birthday for Moss at the Viper Room. He bought her a John Galliano white slip dress.
"It has travelled with me everywhere over the years. It’s the most perfect dress. I also lent it to Sadie [Frost] when she married Jude [Law]," she told BritishVogue years later.
In 1997, the couple called it quits.
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