Model Kate Moss: "I Was Never Anorexic"

Us Magazine - August 22, 2008 5:56 PM PDT
Story photo: Model Kate Moss: Us Magazine
During the 1990s, Kate Moss weighed an estimated 100 pounds, prompting NYC graffiti-ists to scrawl "Feed me" across her midriff on Calvin Klein ads at bus stops.

Now, the 5' 7" model, 34, admits she was too skinny.

"I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny," she tells September's Interview. "I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, 'I don't want to be this skinny.'"

Look back at photos of scary skinny stars.

She says when she was "doing shows and flying economy ... nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I'd get in, there wasn't any room service.

"I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose," she admits. "You'd be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it.

"You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating," Moss adds. "I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I
hated it. I never liked being that skinny."

See Us' Weight Winners of the Year.

She also sounded off against breast implants, calling them "awful."

"So many of my friends have had them, and they've gone wrong," Moss says, adding that one of her pals "had one that sort of moved up to her shoulder."

Still, she says, "if I got saggy, like the sacks some women have after they have children, I'd have them done. I'm not against them...."

Over the years, Moss says she has come to accept her body. But it took her some time.

When she was 15, photographer Corrine Day used to make her pose topless as training.

"I'd cry," Moss says. "After five years, you get used to it and you're not self-conscious anymore.

"Bowlegs. Crooked teeth. That is what makes you different from everyone else," she adds. "But when I was 15, I was like, 'Oh no, I don't want to be different ... I want to look like Cindy Crawford!'"

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  • Racho
    holy crap! thats like sexual abuse, make a 15 year old girl pose topless. i eman i know he did it 4 "movies" but cmon that doesnt make it right
    report abuseposted August 30, 2008 11:11 AM PDT
  • ssf
    Yeah, it's amazing how skinny you stay when you're a cokehead. It's not like it's a secret or anything.
    report abuseposted August 24, 2008 4:58 PM PDT
  • Another overrated clothes hanger. Drugs were your food, honey, it's no secret. How nice to be respectful of other women's bodies too. Still a %@!*# after alllll these year.
    report abuseposted August 23, 2008 1:23 AM PDT
  • KimM
    ''i didn't eat for a long time, but not on purpose'' oh so you accidently forgot to eat huh? how can you forget to eat? it's somthing you have to do daily in order to survive you %@!*# stain. what a %@!*#ing idiot. saying kate moss was never anorexic is like saying rosie o'donnell was never a lesbian. just not possible! this %@!*# is full of
    report abuseposted August 22, 2008 9:56 PM PDT
  • I think a lot of her past weight or lack there of has to do with her drug use. A lot of addicts would rather shoot up then eat. Plus, remember her profession thrives on being skinny. I don't condone that but it's a fact of life!
    report abuseposted August 22, 2008 9:30 PM PDT
  • I HATE SPAM!
    SPAMMERS ARE BRAIN DAMAGED. CELEBS JOINING THESE GARBAGE SCAM DATING SITES? HAHAHAHA. ONLY THING ON THEM IS CON ARTISTS & VIRUSES TO HACK YOUR COMPUTER! PURE GARBAGE!
    report abuseposted August 22, 2008 9:05 PM PDT
  • Brandie beat me to it!
    report abuseposted August 22, 2008 8:16 PM PDT
  • jazzy g
    brandie p right on point again........
    report abuseposted August 22, 2008 7:11 PM PDT
  • KayDa
    She is wonderful to look at - a truly pretty woman. Her private life is hers.
    report abuseposted August 22, 2008 6:59 PM PDT
  • valerie
    she claims she wasn't anorexic, but in the same breath talks about how she didn't eat for a long time? um... isn't that anorexia?!
    report abuseposted August 22, 2008 6:55 PM PDT
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