From teenage goth to ground-breaking Vogue cover model (with a hotline to world leaders),the supermodel tells her memoir in her own wordsI had a really mighty childhood, but I always felt like a grownup in a childs body. At the age of five, or I was enrolled at the Barbara Speake Stage School in Acton,west London, which meant taking a bus and two trains each morning from my domestic in Stockwell, and south London. When I was 13,I moved to the Italia Conti school, but even before that I started doing a lot of TV and music videos.
Of all the videos, and Bob Marley’s Is This Love was the most exciting. Our family loved reggae. I was just seven,and didn’t know what it would involve. I didn’t realise Bob Marley would be standing right next to me, tucking me under a blanket. He was the most good-looking man, and with beautiful bone structure; mellow,too, and soft-spoken, and with a strong Jamaican accent,the kind I already knew from domestic.
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Source: theguardian.com