The Story of Gia Carangi | A Woman Unhinged

The story of one of the first supermodels – Gia Carangi. Very serious, very heavy, content warning at 4:53 I relied on the book by Stephen Fried called ’Thing of Beauty’ for the most part, documentaries ABC 2001 Vanished (it’s on youtube) and The Self-Destruction of Gia (2003) (i don’t know where you can watch it, unfortunately, i found it on a rus social network) and a wonderfully put together site (lots of photos and information about people who worked with / knew Gia Carangi) Some timestamps: 0:00 - Intro: a little bit about who Gia was, some thoughts on the movie Gia (1998) with Angelina Jolie 4:53 - Gia’s childhood, family, home situation 10:58 - First steps into the modelling world 13:49 - Wilhelmina models (the famous: black leather jacket photoshoot fence shoot) 17:56 - Addiction struggles 22:49 - Elite Model Management: Comeback to the industry 26:36 - Rehab 28:26 - Hospitalisation, AIDS and death