Kate Moss: 'Teen modelling gave me a nervous breakdown'

Kate Moss has revealed that she was not comfortable modelling as a teenager.

The supermodel told Vanity Fair magazine that she regretted the iconic 1992 Calvin Klein shoot with Mark Wahlberg that helped to launch her career.



"I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts," she said.

"It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it. I couldn't get out of bed for two weeks."

Moss added: "I thought I was going to die. I went to the doctor, and he said, 'I'll give you some Valium', and Francesca Sorrenti, thank God, said, 'You're not taking that'.



"It was just anxiety. Nobody takes care of you mentally. There's a massive pressure to do what you have to do. I was really little, and I was going to work with Steven Meisel.

"It was just really weird - a stretch limo coming to pick you up from work. I didn't like it. But it was work, and I had to do it."

Read the full feature in the December issue of Vanity Fair, on sale Friday, November 2.