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It’s been 26 years since the legendary skinny girl from Croydon, south London was spotted at JFK airport, but Kate Moss, who celebrates her 40th birthday last Thursday, is still on top of her game!
The British supermodel greeted the landmark birthday in typically rocking style by posing as a bunny girl for Playboy magazine in black stilettos and rabbit ears.
Moss has recently fronted campaigns by Versace and Rimmel and although catwalk appearances are now rare, barely a month goes by where her image is not on the front pages.
Kate is ranked the fourth highest-paid model in the world, according to Forbes, earning $US 5.7 million between June 2012 and June 2013.
Behind the cameras Moss has a busy few months coming up as she makes her debut as contributing fashion editor at British Vogue, and in April launches an eagerly anticipated new collaboration with high-street fashion powerhouse Topshop.
She is rumoured to be planning an epic birthday party on Necker Island, tycoon Richard Branson‘s private retreat in the Caribbean – possibly with a Playboy theme.
The Virgin boss offered his friend the use of the idyllic island for the week to have a wild, week-long party – something that would usually cost around – £280,000.
Celeb friends like Sadie Frost, hairdresser James Brown and Annabelle Nielson are set to join Kate and her hubby Jamie Hince in the Caribbean for the holiday, for which guests were instructed to bring fancy dress costumes as well as beachwear.
Moss’s birthday has been marked by a London exhibition of pictures taken from photographs throughout her career, and a biopic on French television titled Looking for Kate.
The daughter of a barmaid and a travel agent from Croydon, a famously drab suburb of south London, Moss has always lived on the edge of scandal.
Early in her career the pale young model became the face of 1990s “heroin chic”, a fashion trend blamed for glamorizing drugs and anorexia.
Every few years, a model comes along who is touted as the new Kate Moss, currently it’s Cara Delevingne.
Whether she’s celebrating with a responsible glass of wine, or organizing another week of debauchery, we wish Kate a happy birthday – here’s to another 40 years of mayhem, Ms. Moss!
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