From the outside she was a flighty socialite living the easy life. But the It girl was a troubled teen who was sent away to ‘behaviour modification’ schools. She still struggles with the scars today
”, as she describes it – the first person on record to seek and attain payment for turning up at parties. This, at the time, seemed to seal her in the public imagination as a bauble, one of life’s fripperies. Certainly, we didn’t spend a lot of time pondering that it takes quite a lot of entrepreneurial moxie to recognise the value of your stardust and monetise it, especially when you’re already minted.
My childhood would have been very different if my ADHD had been diagnosed: I definitely wouldn’t have been sent away In Palm Springs, she was drugged and probably raped – her memories are fractured and fleeting – by a man she met in a shopping mall, when she was 15. She never mentioned it to her grandmother or anyone else. “Move past the easy assumption,” she writes in her memoir, “that men are pigs and models are dumb. That’s not fair or true or useful. Most men are basically decent, I think, and successful models travel all over the world.
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