At 52, Kate Moss Finally Reveals The Truth About The Photos That Destroyed Her

On the 15th of September 2005, the Daily Mirror ran a front page that changed her life. She was 31, the most valuable model on earth, with a three-year-old daughter at home. Within days H&M was gone. Then Chanel. Then Burberry. Millions in contracts evaporated in under a week while the Metropolitan Police opened an investigation. By January 2006 prosecutors announced there would be no charges — there was never enough evidence to bring a case. Nobody who dropped her came back to apologise, and she barely spoke about any of it for the best part of two decades. Now 52, Kate Moss has finally started telling the truth about that week: about the photographs, about the industry that had spent twelve years selling her body as a symbol of beautiful damage, and about what it did to her the moment the damage turned out to be real.