Kate Moss breaks silence on harrowing reality behind topless shoot when she was just 15

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Supermodel Kate Moss recalls the disturbing underwear ­catalogue shoot 33 years ago. She ran away from the photographer as she wasn't comfortable with posing topless

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Kate Moss has revealed how she ran away from a creepy photographer when she was 15 after he told her to take her bra off.

The supermodel recalls the disturbing underwear ­catalogue shoot 33 years ago on today’s edition of Desert Island Discs.

Kate, 48, said: “He said, ‘Take your top off’ and I took my top off. I was really shy then about my body and he said, ‘Take your bra off’. I could feel there was something wrong. I got my stuff and I ran off. I can tell a wrong ’un a mile away.”

Kate also has bad memories of a later job, when she posed topless in 1992 with actor Mark Wahlberg in a Calvin Klein underwear shoot.

She told Lauren Laverne on the Radio 4 show that before the job she felt “vulnerable and scared” and had been prescribed Valium.

Kate is now a model agent with daughter Lila, 19, among her clients. “I’ve said to her you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to,” she revealed.

“I take care of my models. I make sure they’re with agents at shoots so there is someone there to say, ‘I don’t think that’s appropriate.’”

Kate said she had been made a scapegoat in the 1990s when she was accuse of glorifying thinness after photos of her in underwear appeared.

She said: “I was never anorexic, I never have been. I had never taken heroin. I was thin because I didn’t get fed at shoots or in shows and I had always been thin. It was a fashion shoot.

“It was shot at my flat and that is how I could afford to live at the time.”

Kate, raised in Croydon, South London, also distanced herself from her controversial “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” mantra.

Kate Moss attends 'In America: An Anthology of Fashion' in May 2022

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She spoke of a photo of her taking cocaine in a ­studio with then-boyfriend Pete Doherty.

Kate said: “I felt sick and was quite angry. Everybody I knew took drugs, to focus on me and try to take my daughter away, I thought was really hypocritical.”

And she said she defended her ex Johnny Depp, 59, in his recent libel trial against his ex-wife, because: “He never kicked me down the stairs. I had to say that.”

Her disc choices included David Bowie’s Life On Mars? Her book was The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and a cashmere blanket was her luxury.

Desert Island Discs, Radio 4, today, 11.15am and on BBC Sounds

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