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Model Kate Moss: "I Was Never Anorexic"
Friday August 22, 2008

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During the 1990s, Kate Moss weighed an estimated 100 pounds, prompting NYC graffiti-ists to scrawl "Feed me" across her midriff on Calvin Klein ads at bus stops.

Now, the 5' 7" model, 34, admits she was too skinny.

"I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny," she tells September's Interview. "I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, 'I don't want to be this skinny.'"

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She says when she was "doing shows and flying economy ... nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I'd get in, there wasn't any room service.

"I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose," she admits. "You'd be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it.

"You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating," Moss adds. "I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I
hated it. I never liked being that skinny."

See Us' Weight Winners of the Year.

She also sounded off against breast implants, calling them "awful."

"So many of my friends have had them, and they've gone wrong," Moss says, adding that one of her pals "had one that sort of moved up to her shoulder."

Still, she says, "if I got saggy, like the sacks some women have after they have children, I'd have them done. I'm not against them...."

Over the years, Moss says she has come to accept her body. But it took her some time.

When she was 15, photographer Corrine Day used to make her pose topless as training.

"I'd cry," Moss says. "After five years, you get used to it and you're not self-conscious anymore.

"Bowlegs. Crooked teeth. That is what makes you different from everyone else," she adds. "But when I was 15, I was like, 'Oh no, I don't want to be different ... I want to look like Cindy Crawford!'"

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