Kate Moss hated topless photoshoots when she was a teenager because she felt self-conscious about a mole on her breast.
Kate Moss hated stripping off when she was a young model
The supermodel was discovered at the age of 14 and shot to fame after posing semi-clothed for famed photographer Corinne Day in a shoot which featured in The Face magazine – but Kate admits she cried when faced with the prospect of stripping off on camera.
During an appearance on Bella Freud’s ‘Fashion Neurosis’ podcast, she explained: “At a very young age, I started working. I started doing pictures topless and I was very, very conscious of … I have a mole on my right t** and I hated it so much I would cry. I never wanted to show [it] …
“I never wanted to be topless. I would cry and I had to get over it because the photographer would be, like, ‘If you don’t do this, I’m not going to book you for the next job’, so I had to get over it. And so then I was like, nobody really gives a s*** about my mole.
“I think as a model you can’t be very self conscious because you’re body’s not your own when you’re a vessel for somebody else’s imagination.”
When asked if the photographer she mentioned was Day, Kate replied: “[Yes] … I was 15 and topless in a magazine, and I was still in school and luckily, The Face wasn’t sold in Croydon, so I don’t think anyone really saw it, but … they heard about it.
“They took the p*** out of my brother [saying] ‘Your sister’s got her t*** out’. He probably suffered more than I did about it … “
She added of the shoot with Day: “I think at the time, it was very closed … It was me, Corinne, Drew Jarett, the hairdresser, and Dick Page, the make-up artist. So the boys … I would make Drew turn around because he was straight and I was, like, ‘I’m not having him look at me’ … I was really shy.
“But it was like family … Even after that shoot I did cry a lot about taking my clothes off a lot … I didn’t want to do it.”
Kate went on to reveal she went on to do a lot of topless work, adding: “I had to get over the whole t** thing and then everyone wanted my t*** out even though I had such a phobia about them … For a long time I would do shoots and I would have no top on .. Because I was so flat-chested, it wasn’t vulgar … and I had a big mole, it was different.”