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KATE MOSS suffered a nervous breakdown following her iconic nude 1992 Calvin Klein advert, in which she was photographed by Herb Ritts alongside Mark Wahlberg.

“I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts,” Moss said. “It didn’t feel like me at all. I felt really bad straddling this buff guy. I didn’t like it. I couldn’t get out of bed for two weeks. I thought I was going to die. I went to the doctor and he said: ‘I’ll give you some Valium’, and Francesca Sorrenti [Moss' friend and mother of Mario 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.”

The supermodel – who was scouted at the age of 14 – admitted that, in hindsight, she was too young to start modelling.

“I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird,” she said. “But they were like: ‘If you don’t do it, then we’re not going to book you again’. So I’d lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it.”

Moss said that her high-profile relationship with Johnny Depp helped her feel more at ease with herself. The couple were together for three years from 1994 to 1997, leaving the British beauty heartbroken.

“There’s nobody that’s ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said: ‘What do I do?’ – he’d tell me. And that’s what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust,” he said. “It was a nightmare – years and years of crying. Oh, the tears.”

The interview in the December issue of Vanity Fair coincides with the release of her book, Kate: The Kate Moss Book, in which she credits Depp for having taught her a few life-long lessons.

“I was lucky to be with Johnny,” she writes. “He taught me a lot about fame. He told me ‘never complain, never explain’. That’s why I don’t use Twitter and things like that. I don’t want people to know what is true all the time and that’s what keeps the mystery.”

The Vogue cover girl also dismissed allegations that her teenage waif-life figure made “heroin chic” a fashionable ideal.

“I had never even taken heroin – it was nothing to do with me at all,” said Moss. “I think [stylist] Corinne Day – she wasn’t on heroin, but always loved that Lou Reed song, that whole glamorising the squat, white-and-black and sparse and thin, and girls with dark eyes. She loved that look. I was thin, but that’s because I was doing shows, working really hard. At that time I was staying at a B&B in Milan, and you’d get home from work and there was no food. You’d get to work in the morning, there was no food. Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don’t get fed.”

ACTRESS HALLE BERRY is a rules-breaker.

On her trouble with the paps:

“I get it about the celebrity stuff. It’s part of my job to recognize that there’s a certain part of my life the public wants to hear about. But it’s not O.K. that they’re doing terrible things to my daughter. One night, after they chased us, it took me two hours just to get her calmed down enough to get to sleep.’’

On keeping herself grounded:

“I always felt like the underdog. Behind the eight ball. I learned not to be too high on the hog. Even that night I won the Oscar, I had a fundamental knowing, it was just a moment in time. Driving home that night, back to my house, I felt like Cinderella. I said, ‘When this night is over, I’m going back to who I was.’ And I did.”

On perceiving her image as a black woman:

“My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn’t matter as much as how I would be perceived” — as beautiful but also as a black woman in a world in which the images of beautiful, successful black women were notably absent.”

The exclusive shoot for French Elle magazine, took place in Paris on the infamous mirrored staircase at 31 Rue Cambon, the home of Coco Chanel

Above, Victoria is wearing a black jumper with draped cape effect by Lanvin, Chanel accessories and her signature Giuseppe Zanotti boots.

The second shot sees Victoria going solo wearing Fendi shirt, glasses from her new eye-wear range and Sergio Rossi heels. Look at those legs!

Victoria says, ‘I am thrilled to shoot with Karl. I have so much respect for him and I find him so inspiring. To shoot in Coco Chanel’s apartment in the clothes of the house of Chanel is really a dream come true’.

COVERS:

My picture has zero retouching. I like my round-belly….
it was the nest to my 3 beautiful sons for 9 months, also I have a lot of respect for it, and I wanted to let it be in this picture and to celebrate it Victoria had 4 children btw!

Need a break from the basic ponytail? here is a cool and romantic idea and it works on all hair types.

1. Pick up a two to three-inch section beside your part.

2. Divide into three equal pieces.

3. Cross strands over each other once from left to right, picking up hair like you would in a traditional French braid.

4. Repeat the previous step, but after you cross the right strand over, drop it and allow it to hang loose (or have a friend hold it taut while you work).

5. Pick up a new section close to where the original left strand was to create your new right strand.

6. Continue the process, adding hair from the left and right, and dropping the right strand after every rotation. (Note: Keep sections consistent in size each time.)

7. Keep working around the crown of your head. Stop midway through or continue all the way around.

8. Twist the remaining hair into a regular braid.

9. Tie the end with an elastic band and tuck it under your hair; secure with bobby pins.

VOILA!