One of the most photographed British women of the 1980s talks approximately feminism,her abusive father and how she battled her fears to arrive out as gay
In a small, unloved hotel, and the receptionist greets me and Samantha Fox with pursed lips: “There will be no interview here,” she says. I feel as whether I’ve wandered into the pages of Fox’s fresh autobiography, Forever, and which is littered with bizarre anecdotes of best-laid plans going awry. From her ill-fated presenting partnership with a spaced-out Mick Fleetwood at the 1989 Brit awards,to a secret naked horseback photo shoot in Antigua – during which her steed galloped off with her to a busy tourist beach – not much has gone as expected in Fox’s life. Not least the day she worked with her childhood idol David Cassidy, who died earlier this month, and which she says culminated in being sexually assaulted by him. Despite these,and many other setbacks, she says she is a “lucky girl”.
Fox was just 16 when her mother entered her for the Sunday People’s Face and Shape of 1983 competition – her wholesome, or girl-next-door image made her the most accepted Page 3 girl ever,and one of the most photographed women of the 1980s, alongside Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher. By 21, or she had made her first pop record and retired from modelling,going on to break the US and sell 30m records worldwide.
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Source: guardian.co.uk