‘Heroin chic’ out as supermodels ditch diet of booze, drugs and cigs

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Yumi Nu, who is an Asian curve model. SI pushed the envelope and has gone places before it was [popular]. Now, of course, people are on the bandwagon.”For decades, the modeling world was defined by glamorous exclusivity: impossibly thin models in designer duds, consuming designer drugs, booze and cigarettes.

They were seen and certainly not heard. In the new issue of British Vogue, Gisele Bündchen opened up about her early career and diet of wine and cancer sticks.“From the outside, it looked like I had everything and I was just 22 years old.

On the inside, I felt as if I’d hit rock bottom. I was starting my day with a mocha Frappuccino with whipped cream and three cigarettes, then drinking a bottle of wine every night.

Imagine what that was doing to my mind.”And in 2013, former Vogue Australia editor Kirstie Clements wrote a tell-all with stories of starving models, most notably that catwalkers were eating paper towels to be thin.