Among the many model Gia Marie Karanja is considered one of the best.What caused such a huge popularity of the ordinary, it would seem, girls?Undoubtedly, a great role in the success of her beauty played.But fame came to her after she was one of the first ventured to withdraw without clothes.Details of the history of the ascent to Olympus fashion forever young and beautiful patterns, as well as the unexpected collapse of her career, read on.
Philadelphia childhood
Gia Marie Karanja, biography covered in this article, was born January 29, 1960.She was the daughter of Italian Americans and Irish Joe Karanja with Welsh roots Caitlin Karanja.The temperament of both parents was inherited by his daughter fully, so a girl from an early age differed from contemporaries naughty explosive.Mischievous child and plants, Gia Marie Carangi the age of 11 experienced parental divorce.Later they married again, but the girl, having tasted free of parental neglect life, seriously fascinated by the work of David Bowie and began to follow his ideology.
In 14 years, the future model Gia Marie Carangi realized that she did not quite close relationships with the opposite sex.She falls in love with girls, they send bouquets and touching poems that composed herself.Girlfriend Karen Karaz always amazed openness and frankness with which Jia told her about his inclinations.The mother tried to help her daughter and drove her to an appointment with the psychologists and psychotherapists.
Beginning a long journey
easily and unexpectedly joined the business model Gia Marie Karanja.Her biography, meanwhile, had not contained information about the fascination with such activities.At age 18, after leaving the club DCA in California, where the future model danced, she moved to New York, where fate brought her to the management modeling agency Wilhelmina Cooper.
worked for about 3 months on the orders of small and modest, suddenly became world famous model Gia Marie Karanja.Biography girl might be different if she had not met Arthur Elgort, who helped her to establish contacts in the magazines Vogue and Cosmo.Renowned photographers struck this bright brunette who at some pictures looked like innocence, but on the other - as the lady vamp.
peak of popularity
What was the reason for such great popularity girl named Gia Marie Karanja?Biography her as a supermodel began in late 1978, when she first agreed to star naked.Scandalous photos while stirred the minds of the public, but no one was going to condemn the girl, since her body was really beautiful.After just a few months, photo models appeared in almost all fashion magazines.By the way, while particularly popular blonde, and Gia, being bright brunette favorably with them.
She first began to receive several thousand dollars for a shoot.In 1979 she was recognized as the owner of the most beautiful "model" chest, and her photo on the cover of Cosmopolitan were recognized as the best of his career.Sensuality model nice contrast to the modesty of the other girls.It was then Gia Marie Karanja, photos of which were already well-recognized, has ceased to take on all orders.By choosing the most interesting and unusual photographing model to get used to the image, and not just showing beautiful face and body, but was designed to expose the soul.It is this amazing ability to let her act up on the set, without fear of scandal or refusal to work with her.
addiction, which broke all hopes
becoming popular and highest paid model, Gia has not found peace of mind, as always felt alone.More than once, she offered my brother move in with her.In early 1980 model has gone through a lot of stress, burying his friend and mentor.Trying to escape from acute loneliness, Gia Marie Karanja started taking drugs: first, cocaine, heroin and later.
tantrums and whims on the set of frequent, but the first time she forgave and that, because she was the real star.In November 1980, photos of the model had greatly retouched, because her hands were covered with needle marks.Then Gia left modeling agency, but at a new job, she did not last long, and in February 1981 all left the modeling business.
Life after ...
Clumsy attempts to quit drugs and undergo rehabilitation Gia Marie Carangi undertook until 1983.But the former model was in constant need for another dose.Jia first sold jeans shop in the remote, and then from the lack of funds turned to prostitution.In early 1986, she was hospitalized with severe pneumonia.In the survey, doctors diagnosed her "AIDS."Jia spent almost a year in Philadelphia clinic under the supervision of the mother.Her body was disfigured, talk in the last few months of her life she almost could not.
In November 1986, the first ever supermodel gone.The funeral took place quietly.Many in the world of fashion, even after several years did not know that it is no more.
