‘I was keen to get away from Croydon’: Kate Moss admits it ‘wasn’t easy’ growing up in her birthplace before being scouted at 14
- Kate Moss, 47, said she and her pals would hang around Surrey Street Market looking for style inspiration, before she was discovered at the age of 14
- The model admitted she misses the ‘innocence’ of her life in south London, but was keen to ‘get away’ from her hometown
- Kate had previously credited her Croydon upbringing with helping her to manage her vast fame
- She added that she ‘never had a plan’ for the first days of her fashion career and soon had to learn to be ‘fussier’ with her modelling jobs
Kate Moss has admitted it ‘wasn’t easy’ growing up in her home town of Croydon as she reflected on the early days of her career.
The model, 47, said she and her pals would hang around Surrey Street Market looking for style inspiration, before she was famously discovered at the age of 14.
Kate added that she ‘never had a plan’ for the first days of her fashion career and soon had to learn to be ‘fussier’ with her modelling jobs, after struggling to manage her hectic schedule.
‘It wasn’t a time I look back on longingly’: Kate Moss, 47, has admitted it ‘wasn’t easy’ growing up in her home town of Croydon as she reflected on the early days of her career
Speaking to Reader’s Digest, Kate said she doesn’t long for her home in Croydon, south London where she spent most of her childhood.
She said: ‘As far as growing up in Croydon went, it wasn’t a time I look back on longingly, certainly not so much as the place itself. I was keen to get away.
‘There is definitely a part of me that misses the innocence of it all, but not the place.’
Kate went on to add that she didn’t plan most parts of her early career and initially said yes to all the work she was offered, after dreaming of travelling the world as a child.
Blast from the past: The model said she and her pals would hang around Surrey Street Market looking for style inspiration, before she was discovered at the age of 14 (pictured in 1993)
History: Kate lived in Croydon (pictured) throughout her childhood and teenage years before being scouted, and had previously credited her past with helping her to manage her fame
She then realised she had to be more selective with jobs when she struggled to manage her busy diary.
She continued: ‘At that point I knew I had to get serious and be a bit fussier, but until then it was really just a case of taking the offers and seeing where they went.’
Kate lived in Croydon with her mother Linda and father Peter, until they divorced when she was 13, before being famously scouted and recruited by Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm Management, in New York in 1988.
Reflect: She said: ‘As far as growing up in Croydon went, it wasn’t a time I look back on longingly, certainly not so much as the place itself’ (Croydon pictured in the 1980s)
She had previously credited her Croydon upbringing with helping her to manage her vast fame.
In a 2015 interview for ShowStudio.com, she was asked if she found it hard being such a huge star in the fashion industry.
She said: ‘No, because I’m from Croydon and if you get above your station, somebody will f**king knock you back down.’
The model went on to say: ‘You can’t go around with airs and graces, at all and I would never want to. When I see people do that I think they look like c***s. I don’t get it.’
Candid: Kate added that she ‘never had a plan’ for the first days of her fashion career and learned to be ‘fussier’ with her modelling jobs, after struggling to manage her hectic schedule
Despite it being more than 30 years since she was first discovered, Kate has continued to rock the runway, walking in the Fendi show at Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris last month.
The star was joined by her daughter Lila for the socially-distanced fashion event, which was the first under designer Kim Jones.
Kate become synonymous with the ‘heroin chic’ aesthetic of the 1990s due to her svelte frame and pale skin, but also branded the term ‘awful with no positive interpretation’.
She returned to London last August after she had been isolating in her Cotswolds mansion with Lila alongside her long-term partner Count Nikolai von Bismarck and her half-sister Lottie, 22, who now lives in Los Angeles.
The troupe were also joined by Kate’s hairdresser friend James Brown.
Views: She continued: ‘At that point I knew I had to get serious and be a bit fussier, but until then it was really just a case of taking the offers and seeing where they went’
A source told MailOnline: ‘Kate and James have been friends their entire careers, they’re like family. They’re very comfortable living together.
‘It’s an added perk that James is a hairdresser and has been able to lend his hand when it comes to overgrown roots and out of control hair.
‘Lottie, who’s dyed her hair pink in lockdown, has also formed a close bond with James – and regularly shops with him when getting food for the house.’
Wow! Despite it being more than 30 years since she was first discovered, Kate continues to rock the runway, walking in the Fendi show at Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris last month
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