Video: Gia in life and in movies: the tragic story of one of the first supermodels
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Gia Marie Carangi known as an American supermodel, who was one of the first to make a dizzying career in the modeling business and passed away in 1986 at the age of 26. She suffered from drug addiction and died of AIDS. Jia was one of the first women to be openly blamed on the immunodeficiency virus as the cause of death. In 1998, Angelina Jolie starred in the film Gia, and this image became one of her most successful reincarnations and earned her a Golden Globe film award.
At the age of 14, Gia realized that she was attracted to girls - she sent them flowers and poems of her own composition. Her mother took her to psychologists, but this did not help. At the age of 18, she arrived in New York and in three months of work at a modeling agency became one of the most sought-after models in America. Thanks to her, not only blondes, but also brunettes began to appear on the pages of fashion magazines - at that time her appearance was atypical for the fashion world.
In 1978, Gia starred in her most scandalous photo shoot - she posed completely naked behind a fence. All other models turned down the offer of photographer Chris von Wangenheim, who was doing an unusual photo shoot for Vogue magazine.
Soon, she was paid $ 10,000 for filming. She refused many offers, was late for a photo shoot, made scandals if she did not like her hair or makeup. “In this city, everyone is looking for sex, drugs and money,” she wrote in her diary. “Everyone sees beauty, but no one sees pain …”. She took drugs, and soon it began to interfere with her work. In 1980, a scandal erupted: at a photo session in November "Vogue", the model showed marks from numerous injections on the hands of the model. A few months later, she disappeared from the New York modeling world.
“The world seems to be based on money and sex. I am looking for the best things: happiness, love and care,”Jia wrote in her diary. But in the last months of her life, she traded herself to buy drugs. "Life and death. Energy and peace. If I stopped today, it was still worth it, and even the mistakes I made and which I would fix if I could, the pain that burned me and left scars in my soul - it was all worth it to let me go there. where I was going: to this hell on earth, to this heaven on earth and back, inward, under, between, through them, in them and above them."
12 years after the death of the supermodel, the film "Gia" was released. Angelina Jolie first turned down the role, saying that she and Gia are too similar. Perhaps that is why she managed to embody this image on the screen with incredibly convincing and talented. For some time after this work, she did not act in films - it took a break to restore emotional and moral strength. Perhaps the film could qualify for an Oscar if it was not filmed for television.
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