Bad And Beautiful Inside the Dazzling and Deadly World of Supermodels

by Halperin, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780806524566
• ISBN10: 0806524561
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Citadel

Summary

Young models on drugs. Sexual abuse. Eating disorders. Award-winning investigative writer Ian Halperin had heard the stories. He'd also heard from the fashion industry itself that these claims were exaggerated -- isolated, torrid footnotes to the real business of catching the world's eye. Then someone in Halperin's own family came forward with a first-hand account ... Bad & Beautiful is about going undercover in a business built on youth, wealth, and glamour. It's about mega-money and stabbings, adulation and addictions, aspirations and desperation. These tales of naive young people trying to make it reveal startling portraits of lives on the brink of fame ... and tragedy. From top agencies in New York, South Beach, and Los Angeles to shows in Milan, Paris, and London, Halperin interviewed over 300 models, designers, agents, and industry insiders. Bad & Beautiful is what he encountered on a manic trip through superstardom, sexual slavery, anorexia, racism, alcohol and drugs. What happens to some young girls who are thrown into this maelstrom of very adult activity? The cameras aren't recording it. You won't find it in the fashion pages. Behind modeling's gorgeous facade lie some very ugly truths. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Ian Halperin has written five highly acclaimed books, A former winner of the Rolling Stone Magazine Award for Investigative Journalism, Halperin has appeared on NBC, ABC, VH1, TSN, and Court TV. He lives in Montreal, Quebec

Table of Contents

Author to Reader	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
Part One: Posing Undercover	1	(78)
L.A. Confidential	3	(5)
Photog Prolix	8	(4)
The Ruby	12	(3)
Party to Hell	15	(4)
Confessions of a Model Scout	19	(4)
Wanted---A Big Schnoz	23	(4)
Venice Ho House	27	(4)
From Hearst to Ford	31	(16)
Wrong Turn	47	(5)
Milan Marauders	52	(4)
Gunned Down in Milan	56	(3)
Livin' la Vida Loca	59	(6)
Illegal Runway	65	(14)
Part Two: Beautiful Women, Bad World	79	(76)
The Big Six	81	(12)
Cigarettes, Alcohol, Heroin . . .	93	(10)
The Great Gisele	103	(4)
Fading Away	107	(11)
Lesbian Chic	118	(6)
Online Ecstasy	124	(8)
New Blood	132	(6)
Proverbial Opportunity	138	(12)
Catwalk Overkill	150	(5)
Part Three: Model Agents: Prince or Pimps	155	(34)
Modeling Schools?	157	(7)
Wakeup Call	164	(9)
MacIntyre Undercover	173	(5)
Straight, No Chaser	178	(11)
Part Four: Beauty and Myth	189	(66)
The New York Diet	191	(4)
Steroid Relief	195	(8)
Cosmetic Hangover	203	(6)
Niki Taylor Tragedy	209	(4)
Skin Deep	213	(9)
No Gettin' By	222	(5)
Fashion Cafe Cataclysm	227	(12)
California Dreaming	239	(3)
Bad And Ugly	242	(5)
Selling Out	247	(8)
Part Five: Final Undercover	255	(23)
Manhattan Mayflower	257	(5)
The Washington Square Beauty	262	(5)
New York Club Chaos	267	(5)
Behind the Catwalk	272	(3)
On to South Beach	275	(3)
Epilogue: Last Call---The Death of a Legend	278	(7)
Index	285