| Katherine Moss was born in Addiscombe, London Borough of Croydon, England
on January 16, 1974. She was discovered at the age of 14 by Sarah Doukas (the founder of Storm Model Management) in 1988, at JFK Airport in New York City, after a vacation in the Bahamas. Moss's career began when Corinne Day shot black and white photographs of her for British magazine The Face when she was 15, in a photo shoot titled "The Third Summer of Love".
Moss has a daughter, Lila Grace, born on 29 September 2002, with Dazed & Confused editor Jefferson Hack. She is also godmother to the two sons of The Clash member Paul
Simonon.
Kate Moss in cocaine scandal
On 15 September 2005, London's Daily Mirror ran front page
photos that showed Kate Moss snorting several lines of cocaine at a Babyshambles recording session.
Tabloids reported that Moss used a £5 note to snort five lines in 40 minutes.
Consequentially, Moss lost major modeling contracts with several international companies. On 16 June 2006,
Moss was cleared of all drug charges, and resumed her modeling career. |
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