EXCLUSIVE Kate Moss reveals the 'awful abuse' she received from anorexic girls' parents over her infamous heroin chic look in the nineties By Grant Tucker Entertainment Editor Published: 19:01 EDT, 8 September 2024 | Updated: 19:07 EDT, 8 September 2024 e-mail View comments It was the look that made Kate Moss famous: pale skin, slicked-back hair and – infamously – an extremely thin physique. Now the supermodel has revealed the abuse she faced for her 'heroin chic' aesthetic. The 50-year-old, who became the poster girl for the trend in the Nineties, said that people would approach her in the street and accuse her of promoting eating disorders.
She told a new Disney+ documentary: 'Parents would come up to me and say, "My daughter's anorexic". It was awful. 'I think because I was just skinny, and people weren't used to seeing skinny.
But if I'd been more buxom, it wouldn't have been such a big deal. It's just that my body shape was different from the models before me.' It was the look that made Kate Moss famous.
Now the supermodel has revealed the abuse she faced for her 'heroin chic' aesthetic The 50-year-old, who became the poster girl for the trend in the Nineties, said that people would approach her in the street and accuse her of promoting eating disorders (pictured with Naomi Campbell in 1993) The look became popular after the then 19-year-old posed in lingerie for the June 1993 issue of Vogue. Describing the shoot with photographer Corinne Day, Ms Moss said: 'I ju.