Anyone remember Gia Marie Carangi?

I think that's her grandmother.

That’s not Gia OP

Yes, it is legimitely her.

who?

Gia had black hair

I don't think that's even a woman.

That's Angelina Jolie.

R5, I'm pretty sure she had brown hair (naturally). I mean, I'm not sure why she would have dyed it this awful, brassy color, but she could have.

Gia????????

She was a natural beauty. Her look helped pave the way for Cindy Crawford.

Yes, it’s sadly her .

So this was her last Cosmopolitan cover (I think) in 1982, and it's all airbrushed to hell... she died four years later. I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that first photo is her. So sad, she was a great beauty. And she also just seemed like a sweet, loving person.

Cindy Crawford was far more beautiful than Gia. Gia looks more like Broderick Crawford.

R13 = Devoted husband Rande

There is a picture of Gia a few months before she died in the book "Thing of Beauty", which is the last photo taken of her. She had severe facial/physical wasting, but you could still tell it was Gia in the photo. OP's photo is not Gia.

This is one of the last known photos of Gia.

I see that a lot of women with beautiful dark hair will destroy their looks by trying to become blondes...even people in Hollywood. It looks ridiculous.

According to this website, it's her.

She died when she was 26...so no, that was not her.

Pardon me but that is not the model and aids patient, she died in 1986.

Supposedly, this is the last photograph taken of Gia Carangi. R17, do you have a source for the photo that isn't an Eastern European spam site? This looks like her. The other photo doesn't.

That website does not exactly strike me as an impeccable source of information, r18.

The OP pic almost looks more like Caroline Bouvier Kennedy Schlossburg.

OP and others, are you trolling or just stupid? Gia's eyes were brown and she had a totally different nose and lips. Before she died she was skin and bones with full blown AIDS.

For some reason, someone is posting a lot of bogus photographs.

I think some jealous dyke is trying to create her own story. Pretending a 26 year old model looked like a 50 year old serial killer.

In r21s photo, perhaps the person in the background is Gian but I would not count on it.

That photo has more reputable sources than the one at r18.

She was a lesbian, right?

I don't know that it is or isn't her.

By the time she died, she had been abusing drugs for years and had been living very rough. But, whatever she looked like, I imagine that she would have looked haggard from both AIDS, drug abuse, and living on the street and turning tricks for drugs. All you have to do is look at some of those faces of meth pix to see how that kind of drug abuse ravages one's appearance in a short amount of time.

That’s Susan

The image at R21 is included in a collection of candids on the official Gia Carangi website. She looked like a regular girl when she wasn't all made up. The image the OP posted in NOT Gia.

There are some pretty awesome photos on that site...

Gia's drug of choice was cocaine and then heroin, not meth. The drugs ravaged her, but not like that. Drugs and/or AIDS doesn't change your eye color, make your nose bigger, change your lip shape, add pockmarks to your cheeks and thin your thick dark eyebrows to almost invisible. And no one with full blown AIDS has a full fat face.

The photo @r21 is the one in the book "Thing of Beauty" (which is Gia's biography).

Gia started taking heroin when her agent and confidante Wilhelmina Cooper died.

I didn’t know her, but friends knew her as well as her father and mother. Father killed himself in the basement of his hoagie shop (friend’s mom found him). Mom was tough, tough, tough. She was troubled, but really a lot like the other Italian girls from the neighborhood.

Apparently this is another photo taken shortly before her death. She looks much better than she does in R21's post.

Gia was not ordinary, but very different looking in real life. She was lesbian in an unapologetic way. She looked like Fonzie's sister. I was too young to be aware of models at that time but like many others, I have learned a lot about her. She looks great in my of her professional photos but she was never THE model and her modelling career was very short. She was a dyke who loved drugs and drama. The modelling establishment indulged her open addiction until she didn't look as good as they needed her to. Her downfall and illness were longer than her time near the top. She's only famous because of AIDS really. Dirty needle victim.

R12, regarding that picture, a Vanity Fair (I think) article about her life said that picture was shot that way to minimize her face bloat from her drug use and her hands are hidden so that nobody could see the gory abscess she had on the back of one of her hands from shooting dirty needles in it.

^Many of those souls were rotten and got their just deserts though.

Not saying Gia was one of them.

She seems terrible broken in this video.

R36, there's no way it could be shortly before her death. She spent the last several weeks of her life in the hospital on a respirator with organs failing one by one. Her mother wouldn't allow anyone to see her or take pictures. It would have to be at least a few months before her death if not earlier.

I'm not sure of the date of this photo, but it was definitely 1985 or 1986 because the man is Rob Fay, whom she met in rehab in 1985:

You couldn't let her room with the other girls. There'd be... trouble.

R40 perhaps I should have used my words more wisely. I meant shortly in a relative manner.

She looks pretty good for someone who has full blown AIDS. Was that photo taken on the same day, she appears to be wearing the same white T in both.

She's not broken there R39. She's an uneducated delusional junkie. It's a random world - but being a model did nothing to help her. More money and access to drugs. A lot of corrupt people indulging her like a child. She died of AIDS from sharing needles. That's tragic no matter who it happened to. That illness was never kind and it took it's time back then. Poor girl. She could have kicked drugs and still be alive or died of an overdose on any given day. The one thing that is for sure is that she wouldn't be remembered as a famous model were it not for AIDS.

she was stunning, i'm sure she could get any pussy she wanted. I'm a gay man and i find her butch attitude - along with her dark beauty - hot AF

and she had a spectacular pair of tits.

[quote]She's not broken there. She's an uneducated delusional junkie

[quote]Poor girl. She could have kicked drugs and still be alive

Take your Risperidone, r43

I'm not sure if it's known when she developed what we now think of as full blown AIDS. She was diagnosed with it a couple months before her death, but was previously diagnosed with the no longer used AIDS-Related-Complex several months or maybe the year before. Death was so much more rapid and gruesome then.

Either way, she did not put on the kind of weight in her last year of life that OP's photo suggests. There's just no way.

i read that she fucked for drugs (she was also raped). that, and sharing needles, was her downfall

^ She did and was repeatedly raped. It's possible that's how she contracted AIDS as well. The last 2-3 years of her life were absolutely horrific.

From the photo it's hard to tell if it's weight gain or just bloat from drug and alcohol abuse. There are a lot of skinny junkies with fat, bloated faces.

Where was her family during all this? I watched her E! True Hollywood episode a couple years back.

Jolie's portrayal of her COULD HAVE BEEN good, it's a role she was born to play.

R50 the woman in Op's pic is 55 at best.

Well since OP's photo is not Gia, R50, it's irrelevant.

An exurb from r18's article:

"The young woman’s fascinating ability to represent any image, from a rocking chick to a naïve simpleton, made her even more attractive in her employees’ eyes."

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

What a strange response R46. I don't know the drug you mention, but I do note that you think some people "deserved" to get AIDS and others, apparently Gia did not. There is no morality to disease. All treatment is the same. Treat your own suffering spirit. R39, R46. Peace.

I don’t care who claims that is Gia, that is not a 26 year old woman.

Auto correct got me again. *excerpt.

I don't mean to be rude but the op photo is for sure, NOT GIA!! You goddamn stupid fools!

OP’s website constantly refers to Gia as “the woman” and “the model” in a way that we don’t use in the English language. It’s a do-it-yourself website from Eastern Europe or the Balkans or some Asian country. That’s not Gia Carengi.

Aside from he gave that it’s a mugshot & there’s no evidence she was ever arrested.

"The photo @[R21] is the one in the book "Thing of Beauty" (which is Gia's biography)."

I have that book, and there's no photo like that in it. It doesn't look like her to me. She never wore glasses. Her mother did, but not her. And of course the OP's pic is not her, either.

As for poor Gia...well, she had beauty but not much else: no education, no ambition, no work ethic, no family support system, no self worth. She fell into a modeling career and it helped her along her path to destruction by providing her with money to drugs extensively.Some people think if she hadn't been a model she might have survived but someone who knew said "she would have beena casualty in any life."

[quote]who?

Don't MAKE me pull out my Gia, collection, r4

No, it's definitely not her.

[quote]r12 she also just seemed like a sweet, loving person.

She was NOT sweet and loving, unless she was obsessed with you. (And even then in was reportedly Jekyll & Hyde.) She was rude and nasty, and unkempt. I know one person who met her who described her as "a pig."

The amazing thing about the book [italic]Thing of Beauty [/italic]is that even given all that, you still cry at the end when she dies. There is something about her that was vulnerable, rude and stupid as she was.

I would love to have licked Gia's AIDS-ridden feet. Lick the AIDS from underneath her toenails yum yum yum

R62, could maybe the AIDS medicine have affected her eyesight or made her sensitive to light, though?

Gia's last photo.

[quote]r13 Cindy Crawford was far more beautiful than Gia. Gia looks more like Broderick Crawford.

The two are comparable. Gia was actually a better model than Cindy C, as far as the physicality of the craft goes, when it comes to that. Look how more free and human and intriguing her pic on the left is than Cindy's, which is just a standard pinup pose.

"Thing of Beauty" was an excellent book. Yes, Gia was messy and out of control, but she also had a fucked up childhood. Her mother left the family and took off with another man, leaving Gia's father to raise her and her brothers. They were essentially unsupervised and had no authority figures in their lives.

I wish someone would make a decent movie based on the book. That piece of shit with Angelina Jolie was a complete waste.

Exactly R67. A sad story is a sad story. Gia is one of millions who died of AIDS. I can't even project beauty onto her. She wasn't even beautiful. But her life has been interestingly and movingly documented. No one deserved her fate, at least her crazy ass mother loved her. Her photos were unremarkable R71.

Is DL's Gia Stan also DL's Willy Cartier Stan?

i read that some thought she was molested by her father

R75 I'm not sure about that. I think he was just neglectful and didn't know how to raise kids on his own.

I also read that she claimed to be molested by her father.

I know it is silly to get mad at strangers like op but what really bothers me is that there are people who will over ride their good judgment and then believe the op. I know this is probably of no importance but the op is not presenting Gia.

[quote]r73 Her photos were unremarkable

You are on VERY thin ice, little miss.

REPENT!

only on DL one could find people claiming that Gia was not beautiful.

R79 I thought she was stunning. She was the face of 1970s New York chic.

She had already been through rehab when this interview was filmed and was trying to come back. She was still gorgeous.

Cindy Crawford was called Baby Gia when she started out. Gia was memorable and I can still remember standing in line at the grocery store checkout and seeing this mag cover for the first time. She definitely left an impression...

^^ she is high af in that video...poor thing.

At the 1:26 mark in R84's video, she was magic!

WHY must Gia be discussed quarterly on DL? Why?

Because it pisses you off --

That's definitely not Gia in OP's photo, despite what the website it comes from says. The woman in that picture has to be in her 40s; Gia was in her 20s when she died. In addition, the woman in the photo has a small mole or some kind of mark above her upper lip on the right side. Gia didn't have that.

OP must be that Gia Carangi supermodel nutcase. He just found another way to start a discussion. She was not beautiful. Cute with one small eye. But young Italian girls are often luscious in skin tone and colorin with great hair, nice lips and pretty brown eyes. So she was different in that she was a cute brunette who needed a LOT of makeup to make her look grown up and beautiful. Cindy Crawford would come to perfect that, but her features and body were already miles ahead of Gia's game. Cindy was called baby Gia for about 6 months and then Crawford took over the world. And even she was just very pretty, but she was very very pretty. It wasn't a trick of makeup and photography. Gia was more the baby Janice. But Janice was exotic and strangely beautiful when she was young. Gia looked like a catalogue version of Janice Dickinson. Cute, great hair.

She truly was a spectacular model, she really heralded the age of the super fit, healthy looking, beautiful-bodied models.

I am convinced he's also the Willy Cartier stan.

R91 is completely wrong

Gia had life in her photos Cindy was average.

If Gia kicked her habit and stayed healthy, I could see her being a god actor

And I wouldn’t be surprised if she was molested by someone in her family

[quote]r91 [Cindy Crawford] was just very pretty, but she was very very pretty. It wasn't a trick of makeup and photography.

Being a model is not about being "naturally" pretty, or beautiful. It's about how you photograph.

blah blah blah blah blah blah

"Thing of Beauty" was an excellent book."

I didn't think so. It had an incredible story to tell (beautiful troubled lesbian girl from nowhere becomes famous model then goes to hell on drugs and dies of AIDS) it was really was a mediocre book. And author said some pretty strange things about AIDS. When Gia goes into the hospital with her symptoms being weakness, shortness of breath and a history of long term IV drug use, the doctors thought they had "better rule out AIDS." They do tests and her AIDS is "determined to be the noncommunicable kind." What the HELL kind of AIDS is "noncommunicable?" He also isn't entirely truthful about some details, especially concerning a woman he called "Rochelle Rosen". She was probably Gia's most important lover; from a well off family, she was a trashy, druggie, criminal bi-sexual. Her real name was Elyssa Golden. At the end of the book he claims she is "battling liver cancer" and her biggest health concerns were alleviated by consistently negative HIV results." But the truth was she didn't have liver cancer; she had AIDS and eventually died of it. Why did he lie about that.? I think he said to preserve her privacy. But it was still a lie. I wonder how much else of the book was not the truth, either.

[quote]r94 Gia had life in her photos

Yes. Which is amazing, because she reportedly detested the act of modeling. She hated being all girly-ed up into this hyper feminine image when that WASN'T her personality. But that might be part of what makes her pics interesting -- she was fighting her way through all those Miss Clairol trappings.

It gives her photos some unexpected depth and connection. Sometimes it's like her eyes are saying, "Save me!"

That nutjob is back on the METH! I don't like any models from 1982, I was a fetus. But the bipolar meth head that starts these Gia threads uses a very recognizable style and pattern of posting. He's a mentally ill old dude.

Gia is dead. She was never a supermodel. She is remembered for her drug addiction and death from AIDS at 26, four years after she was kicked out of modelling. The end.

[quote]r98 But the truth was she didn't have liver cancer; she had AIDS and eventually died of it. Why did he lie about that.?

Maybe that's what he was told?

[quote]r99 Gia is dead. She was never a supermodel. She is remembered for her drug addiction and death from AIDS at 26, four years after she was kicked out of modelling. The end.

If there is a god, you will have a lot to answer for, Mr. Man! That statement will prove your UNDOING!

We now return to our scheduled Gia programing:

OP's photo is Russian. If anyone in this thread thinks that's a photo of Gia Carangi they should just apply for disability benefits based on being blind as fuck.

I just Wiki'd the movie "Gia" and Mila Kunis played eleven year old Gia.

"Maybe that's what he was told?"

I think in an interview he admitted not telling the truth of Golden's illness, I guess he thought it was a courtesy. But in a non-fiction book you expect the truth. Anyway, Gia's relationship with Golden was an awful one; they were both drug addicts, both immoral and uncontrollable. A female acquaintance of the pair recalled the time when they came over and "I gave them Qaaludes and we did some coke. I was really high. If you pushed me I'd fall down. And before I knew it Rochelle (the pseudonym used for her) had punched me out and tied me up. I was wearing a dress with a cummerbund; she tied up my hands with that. She cut my telephone cords, put this school bag over my head with a drawstring and tried to choke me to death. Then she started sticking her hand up my dress, and like, without being explicit, she started sticking her finger up me until I bled. And she just kept punching me in the face, until I had a lump the size of an egg. Gia was sitting there watching. Rochelle kept saying "Oh Gia, let's throw her out the window", and Gia just said "no, I can't." I think Gia was in shock, she didn't know what to do. Rochelle had such control over her."

Some fun, huh? Anyway, after taking any valuables they could find they left the poor girl who said later "I can't believe someone did this to me. It was the most devastating experience I went through in my life." Gia's scummy girlfriend "Rochelle" remembers the incident differently, saying they just went over there to get some clothes of Gia's that were there, getting the girl high and tying her up and taking all the clothes that the girl supposedly wouldn't let Gia have back: "We took all that stuff out of there and left her tied up. It was pretty funny. And we left the music playing (there was a stereo there) "Our LIps are Sealed" by the Go-Gos and it kept playing and playing. Every time I hear that song now I think Oh my God! I think of what we did that night. It was wild. We did some wild things."

r62, I own the book "Thing of Beauty", and that photo, and many others are in my paperback copy.

Gia was rough trade - just like the way she always looked. The industry got off on her. Scavullo was a fraud photographer. He made women look hideous and robotic. Cosmo was run by a sadist who thought she was cute. Everyone in the fashion industry was on coke and quaaludes and this rough bitch Gia was shooting up heroin and getting gang raped in alleyways. They were intrigued by her. Let's not pretend that she was some fantastic or elusive muse. She was obviously a good model, for about a year and a half.

The in book "Model", which barely mentioned Gia, somebody named Matthew Rich said "I loved my Gia. She was adorable and sweet and loved to get fucked up the ass with fingers, and that horrified me, so she talked about it more." A model said She was about melancholy and darkness and that made great pictures." But her career came and went quickly. She was never a "super model." Her career didn't last long enough for her to be one.

She had a self destructive streak as wide as Texas. I think that either her father or one of her brothers molested her. Steven Fried alluded to this in his biography of her. She truly was a real beauty. They said that her only flaw was her fingernails, which she had bitten down to the quick. Her hands had to get airbrushed and retouched.

Good lord OP, all you had to do was use Google ID. It shows that it's Gia just as clear as the day.

The Gia movie with Brad Pitts ex-wife was a great movie. There! I said it

Where did I just learn that her father killed himself in the basement of his home very recently?

trash

R111 look upthread—my understanding was it was the basement of his hoagie shop.

R111–and it was 30 years ago.

And he didn't kill himself, he was OD'ing then eaten by rats.

R115 he hung himself.

Not to be unkind, but I think Gia's life story could make a better film than the one with fat Angie lezzing it up and pretending to be vulnerable. All that damn eyeline, jesus. Gia is a fun BAD movie. Fictionalize Carangi's story, broaden out the crazy fashion life with more truth, they're all dead or sold out by now and cast someone who didn't just blow a 65 mustang. Jolie hit like lightning huh? It's just a bit before my time but I've seen Gia. I wouldn't ever believe that Angelina was a model. When I see that pregnant tattooed gangbang bitch who loves getting spit on in porn, I always think of Angelina Jolie in Gia. So maybe her grossness was Gia realness. Angie sure is refined nowadays. Gia deserved to look thin and pretty for part of her story dammit.

Of course the OP's photo is not her. Some data lounge threads are really making me reminisce lately. when i was in college (I'm 39 now) or around that time, I was so obsessed with and idolized Gia. I read every article, watched every video. I also own the book "Thing of Beauty" and I treasured it. I was and still am fascinated with her and feel sad, and I hadn't thought about her in SO long until seeing this. I always wanted to buy a print for my wall (but never did), my favorite is her posing around the chain link fence. I can't find the exact one, but linked to one similar. And, yes I was also a fan of the movie with Angelina Jolie, but I would like to watch an actual documentary.

R108 I thought it was a family friend who molested her. It was discussed openly in a documentary I watched about her life.

[quote]Not to be unkind, but I think Gia's life story could make a better film than the one with fat Angie lezzing it up and pretending to be vulnerable.

Her performance never deviated from I love you I love you I love you GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!!!!!

Y'all are crazy, hating on Jolie's performance in GIA.

She's wonderful in it. The final scene where she says goodbye to Elizabeth Mitchell (Linda), especially.

Gia was butch, drug addicted and dead from AIDS. Why did she have to look like Angelina Jolie? That seems cruel.

OP is not her. That's a picture clearly taken with a digital camera, so post late 90s and not around in Gia's day.

[quote]r122 Why did she have to look like Angelina Jolie? That seems cruel.

This is as crazy as the posters contending Gia herself was not beautiful.

Angie was cute enough but not close to perfection. The only "flaw" Gia possessed was that she leaned a tiny bit towards masculine in some pictures, which made her even more compelling to look at. See her in that comeback video. Gia was breathtaking!

There was a documentary about Gia, but I don't believe it's for sale anywhere. I really would like to see it. I like HBO movie about Gia, but because it's got camp appeal. This is just a pet peeve of mine, but when a blue-eyed person plays a brown-eyed person, why the hell can't they spring for some brown contacts? It really does make a difference. Take Sienna Miller in Factory Girl.

I believe there were at least two docs on Gia. One was an ABC series hosted by DL fave Elizabeth Vargas called Vanished and then there was the E True Hollywood Story. There may be another elusive doc out there. If so, it may be the one that is occasionally uploaded on Youtube and then unceremoniously deleted.

I was unceremoniously deleted once.

R128, Thank you for your recommendation. Gia was the antithesis of the CA blond Cheryl Tiegs, Christy Brinkley. Ethnic young women rejoiced.

R128, More footage of Gia.

R128, F.Scavullo photographer & Gia.

R128, Tribute to Gia with some of her modeling photos. There are many more offerings on YouTube FYI.

Thanks, R133, I'll check them out.

R128, R134, I didn't know how many different Gia tributes DL wanted to peruse so I just picked a few of them.

I appreciate that, R135.

Love Gia - the model and the movie with Angelina Jolie. Tough South Philly Italian - from the 70s - moved to NYC. I know that story well. The mother was classic rough Italian mother. Childhood was classic 70s non-parented wildness. A lesbian female version of the AIDS epidemic. I know lots of gay male versions - but they got AIDS from sex instead of drugs. The wild life, the absence of boundaries, the troubled childhood, the superficial glamour of NYC and gayness in the 70s - very much my life. The movie captures it well.

Good to remember Gia when we over- romanticize the 70s. She was symbolic of the down side. Fabulous, fun and glamorous - but did not end well for many and probably needed to be injected with a little caution and mature responsibility. Unfortunately the “correction” was violent and deadly - physically, politically and socially. It was fun - but dangerous.

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Junkie whore. Whore for junk. Bad lesbian and who cares model. She would fuck lots of men for a fix and she always looked dull or absent in her photos. More bored than louche. Gia was pretty enough with lots of styling, but no supermodel. She projected zero personality. She's way before my time. Italian men and girls burned hot and fast without much more to recommend them 40 years ago. R138 seems to have lived it, and ended this discussion nicely.

[quote]r140 ...and ended this discussion nicely.

The discussion is NOT ended, ya hear me??

NOT ENDED!!

Go back to your Jussie Smollett threads R141. All this talk is over.

NOT beautiful. Terrible nose, thin upper lip, acres of space between nose & mouth. Great tits though.

She look like a man, and not in the good way.

The true exotic beauty of that time, Janice Dickinson.

This chick from Florida looked like a goddess from the South Seas. AND she was the best fashion model of her time - along with L. Hutton.

b e a u t i f u l

All of Janice's bullshit about how good and gorgeous a model she was is .....true.

gia who?

Dickinson by Avedon.

Go to bed Janice!

Gia was GORGEOUS in her prime; how ridiculous for anyone to say otherwise. During her active modeling years, she was considered to be one of the top 2 or 3 most beautiful women in the business (and for that matter - in the world). Yes, she was troubled, was a lesbian, made poor choices and ultimately died a tragic and gruesome death. All true. The girl was gorgeous in photos however - and will always be remembered for her jaw-dropping beauty. Who really cares if she wore jeans, leather jackets and no make-up in her personal life - she was a stunning woman nonetheless. Gia was both unique and an original if nothing else (outside of being an important supermodel of her era). She paved the way for the olive-skin brunettes and also proved that you could posses beautiful, natural breasts and still land big contracts and runway shows.

Janice in Vogue.

I can't believe how extremely beautiful Janice Dickinson was. She would have aged so nicely naturally if she just took care of herself. I never heard of GIA. I saw the movie as a teen and thought it was ok. I saw the movie recently again and that movie is total crap. Jolie is so miscast and she's a garbage actress. She looks nothing like her at all. Once I saw the real Gia I was like WHOA now I get it. Gia was naturally cute but with makeup she was a total bombshell. stop the haters. She doesn't sound like the sweetest girl in the world and definitely a big tragic mess but that is what makes her so alluring. The dichotomy between her image and her true self. Cindy Crawford definitely resembles her. A new film should be made. It's always intriguing when a person looks one way but is completely another way.

In the book MODEL, Tara Shannon (who's described as the industry's consummate professional) said she thinks Janice Dickonson was the best model of their shared era, and one whose work will be re-evaluated with time.

Shannon also says the woman has a chemical imbalance in the head. "And I say that with love."

Tara Shannon:

Gia was stunning. And had the tough look that was unique and appropriate for the era when women were asserting themselves sexually. Right person, right time. But she burned bright and fast. Even without the drugs, she wouldn’t have had a Janice or Cindy career. She saw money to be made easily and took it. But her narcisstic mother, lesbianism and era doomed her to self-destruction. A great summary of her time.

R152 well said, and true. Gia was also very sweet, rough of course, but no bullshit warm and ready with a bear hug, the heavy drug use sharpened her soul, but she was never a monster. Her family in Philadelphia was a mess though, sad tales.

I read the book about her "Thing of Beauty." She was not an interesting person at all, just a very disturbed one. She never matured; she remained a not very bright, self destructive little girl to the end of her days.

Janice Dickinson's photos look very good through today's eyes. But, and I say this without any malice, she was not very well thought of back when she was making her name in the 80s. While we were well past the Cheryl Tiegs thin lipped whitey white aesthetic, people and advertisers were not yet fully onboard with the exotic look she had at that time. Carol Alt got as much work as a brunette could get back then,

Gia bump

Gia was far more interesting looking than Young Angelina (pre-nose job and with some baby fat) but I still enjoyed the trashy movie. I also watched a sad documentary about her on YouTube. She was molester as a child (by a family friend not her dad) and her drug issues likely stemmed from that.

Yeah Gia was a gorgeous woman