'I was thin because I didn't get fed at shoots': Kate Moss reveals dangers of the fashion industry

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Kate Moss has revealed how a photoshoot as a teenager helped to "sharpen my instincts", leaving her able to "tell a wrong 'un a mile away" - as she spoke about the dangers of the fashion industry. The British model was just 15 when she was working with a male photographer who asked her to take her top and bra off during a photoshoot for a bra catalogue.

Now 48, she told BBC Desert Island Discs that she had taken her top off when asked, despite being "really shy then about my body". "And he said: 'Take your bra off' and I could feel there was something wrong so I got my stuff and I ran away. "I think it sharpened my instincts. "I can tell a wrong 'un a mile away. "Moss grew up in Croydon, south London, and was signed by Storm Management in 1988 at the age of 14.

She became famous two years later after a photoshoot on Camber Sands beach in East Sussex. Moss told presenter Lauren Laverne that remembering the photoshoot - with fashion photographer Corinne Day for magazine The Face - was "painful". 'I didn't want to take my top off'"That scrunched up nose that is on the cover, she would say, 'Snort like a pig' to get that picture. "And I would be like, 'I don't want to snort like a pig' and she would be like, 'Snort like a pig, that's when it looks good'. "Moss said she had "cried a lot" because she was uncomfortable being naked.

She said: "I didn't want to take my top off. "I was really, really self-conscious about my body and she would say, 'If you don't take your top off I am not going to book you for Elle' and I would cry. "It is quite difficult (to take myself back there).