Kate Moss reveals she ‘cried a lot’ after posing topless in famous Nineties shoot

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Kate Moss has admitted she “cried a lot” after posing topless for a photo shoot when she was just 15 years old.

The model, now 50, appeared in a famous cover shoot for The face magazine in 1990, captured by photographer Corrine Day and headlined “The Third Summer of Love”.

The published pictures included a picture of the then-teenager standing in front of the sea at Camber Sands in East Sussex, wearing only a dark skirt and a feathered headdress.

The shoot helped launch Moss’s modeling career, but in a new interview with her close friend Bella Freud, the fashion icon revealed that she would “never” pose half-naked and that the experience left her in tears afterwards.

Appears in the latest episode of Freud’s Fashion neurosis podcast, Moss recalled how “at a very young age I started working and I started doing pictures topless.

“And I was very conscious, I have a mole on my right t** and I hated it so much I wanted to cry.

The model, now 50, admitted she 'hated' posing topless when she was younger

The model, now 50, admitted she ‘hated’ posing topless when she was younger (Getty Images)

“I never wanted to be topless. I cried and I had to get over it because the photographer would say, ‘If you don’t do this I won’t book you for the next job’, so I had to get over it.

When fashion designer Freud asked her friend if she was referring to her work with Day, Moss agreed, explaining that the photos led to her brother being mocked by his peers.

“I was 15 and I was topless in a magazine and I was still in school,” she said. “Fortunately The face wasn’t sold in Croydon, so I don’t think anyone really saw it, but they heard it. They took the piss out of my brother. “Your sister got her knickers out.” I think he probably suffered more than I did from it.”

Moss went on to reveal that she felt “really shy” at the time, but said Day and her team felt “like family”.

Moss and Day would work together several times

Moss and Day would work together several times (ON)

“I had already worked with them so many times that I knew them very well,” she explained. “But I still, even after that shoot, cried a lot about taking my clothes off with her. I really didn’t want to do it.”

Moss and Day continued to work together on numerous occasions, collaborating on a controversial 1993 Vogue manager who was criticized for allegedly glamorizing so-called “heroin chic”.

Day died of a brain tumor in 2010 at the age of 45.

The model previously revisited her complicated relationship with Day in her 2022 appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discstells host Lauren Laverne: “She was my best friend and I really loved her, but she was a very difficult person to work with.

“But you know, the pictures are great, so she got what she wanted and I suffered for them, but in the end they did me a world of good. I mean, they changed my career.”