Gia Carangi
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48 years old
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania
United States
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| General | Quoted from Shut Up And Smile by Ian Halperin :
"Gia Carangi, the former covergirl heroin addict who died of AIDS in 1986, was blacklisted from modeling because fashion editors discovered track marks on her body. Carangi, who once graced the cover of Vogue, Elle and Cosmopolitan, was the top model of the late 1970's. She redefined the fashion industry's standard of beauty. Fashion editors decided not to use her anymore because of her turbulent lifestyle. Carangi was soon reduced to turning tricks on the streets of New York and Atlantic City. At twenty six, Carangi became one of the first women in America to die of AIDS. 'Gia's handlers spent hours trying to help her cover up the track marks on her body, ' says Elyssa Stewart, a former lover of Carangi. ' The problem was that her people were more interested in hiding the marks than helping her personally. Gia was by far the most interesting and provocative model of her time. At first fashion editors knew about all the drugs she was doing but they didn't care. In fact, at one shoot for a major magazine one of the editors supplied Gia with a bag of cocaine and some heroin right on the set. It's only when word leaked out that she might be HIV positive that the editors used her drug habit as an excuse to blackball her.'
"According to Stewart, Carangi is the reason why so many models today shoot heroin under their toenails or tongue, where track marks cannot be detected. Some have lost toenails to infection, some have blinded themselves by injecting heroin into their eye. ' A lot of the agents, who care more about making a buck than anything else, warn their models that if they do heroin they should inject it in careful places, ' Stewart says. ' They tell the young models the stories about Gia and how she was blackballed. They warn them to be careful not to become the next Gia.'
"Carangi grew up in Philadelphia. She was a favorite model of top fashion photographers Arthur Elgort, Francesco Scavullo and Helmut Newton. Carangi was renowned for dressing in men's clothes and wearing no makeup. Her rebellious "take no shit" attitude took the fashion industry by storm. 'If Gia would have spent more time in the beginning using makeup to cover up the marks nobody would have put up a fuss, ' Elyssa Stewart says. 'But she hated makeup. She wanted to do things her way. In the end when she allowed her handlers to use makeup to cover up her marks it was too late. She was already considered untouchable." |
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Gia Carangi's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Orientation: | Lesbian | | Hometown: | Philadelphia | | Body type: | 5' 8" | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius |
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At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970's, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at New York's Studio 54 and the Mudd Club, and redefining the industry's standard of beauty. She was the darling of moguls and movie stars, royalty and rockers. Gia was also a girl in pain, desperate for her mother's approval and a drug addict on a tragic slide toward oblivion, who started going directly from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to the heroin shooting galleries on New York's Lower East Side. Finally blackballed from modeling, Gia entered a vastly different world on the streets of New York and Atlantic City, and later in a rehab clinic. At twenty-six, she became on of the first women in America to die of AIDS, a hospital welfare case visited only by rehab friends and what remained of her family.
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Gia's Stats:
Height 5'8"
Dress Size 6-8-10
Bust 34 Waist 24 Hips 35 1/2
Shoes 8 1/2
Hair Brown
Eyes Brown
* January 1960 Born in Philadelphia
* 1975-1977 Lincoln High School , David Bowie fanatic
* April 1978 Moves to NY City. 350 E. 62, Apt. 3G
* April 1979 Cover, British Vogue, by Chatelain
* April 1979 Cover, Cosmopolitan
* May 1979 Cover, French Vogue, by Newton
* July 1979 Cover Cosmopolitan
* August 1979 Cover of Vogue
* 1978/79 Poster girl Studio 54
* January 1980 Cover Cosmopolitan
* April 1980 Florida shots by John Stember
* July 1980 Cover Cosmopolitan
* August 1980 Cover, French Vogue, by Watson
* November 1980 Last great Vogue shots of Gia, by Piel and Scavullo
* 1983 20/20 focuses on Gia in attempt to portray the dark side of modelling
* February 1981 Cover, Italian Vogue, by Grignachi
* 1982 attempts comeback after battle with heroin addiction
* April 1982 Cover of American Vogue, a gift from Scavullo
* 1984 makes another comeback attempt in Modelling
* Nov 18 1986 Dies of complications from AIDS at 10:00 AM
* Funeral. "Beloved Daughter" is her epitaph.
* July 1996 Paramount begins pre-production on story of her life
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