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fandomnumbergeneratormodel: James King; photographer: Nan Goldin; “Naked New York” Matsuda Autumn/Winter 1996
Jaime King:
I was surrounded by drug abuse. It was something that was always there. The editor, the photographer, everybody was smoking or shooting drugs, so it was natural for me. I just thought that was the way things worked. Did I shoot heroin? No, I sniffed it….I looked so skinny, with black circles under my eyes. It makes me sick, so sick, that’s what they wanted….My habit became a full-time job….It cost money but I had money. If you give a 15-year-old thousands of dollars, she’s going to buy lots of shoes, clothes – whatever she is into at the time. Magazines will talk **** about you but they’ll still book you.
(quoted in Supermodels and drugs: The truth by By James Sherwood in The Independent February 13, 2002)
The Independent article is rife with factual errors, and these quotes contradict what King has said elsewhere about the seriousness of her drug problem. But I would also not be surprised if King had made conflicting statements and occasionally tried to play down her past.
