Kate Moss hated topless photoshoots when she was a teenager because she felt self-conscious about a mole on her breast. 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: .