Why Kate Moss will be forever young

She’s the daughter of a barmaid and travel agent who went on to become one of the most successful supermodels of our time. As Kate Moss turns 40, Louise O’Neill looks back at her life, loves and career.

IN AUG 2013, Interview magazine released ‘The Model Issue’. Featuring multiple covers, the magazine profiled iconic supermodels such as Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Kate Moss and Christy Turlington. These are women who truly deserve the moniker ‘supermodel’, unlike today when as Campbell commented, “everyone’s called a supermodel now. Everyone”.

Yet, for most of the supermodels, the halcyon days of commanding $10,000 merely to get out of bed are long gone. There is one exception. Ms Kate Moss.