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Kate Moss bares all in Vanity Fair

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Top model Kate Moss would have to be one of the world's most photographed women, but despite being a paparazzi favourite it isn't often that we're offered a glimpse into the style icon's private life.

In the December issue of 'Vanity Fair' however the 38-year-old opens up to interviewer James Fox, telling him that following her famous photo shoot with Mark Wahlberg in 1992 she had "a nervous breakdown".

"I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn’t like it," she says. "I couldn’t get out of bed for two weeks. I thought I was going to die."

Kate Moss: Evolution of a style icon

While Moss appears confident and successful now, she admits she (understandably!) wasn't comfortable with taking her clothes off for shoots when she was young.

"I’d lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it," she says. "I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested. And I had a big mole on one. That picture of me running down the beach—I’ll never forget doing that, because I made the hairdresser, who was the only man on the shoot, turn his back."

Spotted by model scout Sarah Doukas at JFK airport in 1988 when she was just 14, Moss's career took off following a photo shoot she did with photographer Corinne Day for 'The Face' in 1990.

PHOTOS: Kate Moss photographed by Corinne Day...

PHOTOS: Kate Moss photographed by Corinne Day, who passed away in 2010.
PHOTOS: Kate Moss photographed by Corinne Day, who passed away in 2010.

Moss's waifish look heralded in a new era in fashion, often dubbed 'heroin chic' (although Moss tells Fox that while at the time she was believed to represent the new grungey look she had never tried the drug), a counterpoint to the buxom supermodel aesthetic of the eighties and nineties.

The Croydon-native has endured her fair share of controversy in her time (Cocaine Kate anyone?) but her career has proved resilient.

In 2011 Moss celebrated her marriage to musician Jamie Hince of The Kills in a lavish three-day fiesta in the English countryside, and while she has a reputation for a lifestyle of parties and clubbing, Moss says these days she lives a quiet life in north London with her husband and her 10-year-old daughter.

“I don’t really go to clubs anymore. I’m actually quite settled,” she says, though "behind closed doors, for sure I’m a hell-raiser.”

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