Career
She became famous in 1996 after appearing in the Gossard Glossies "Girl in the grass" national advertising campaign shot by Herb Ritts, with the strapline "Who said a woman couldn't get pleasure from something soft?". The campaign attracted a record number of complaints (321) to the Advertising Standards Authority, none of which were upheld. The ASA later found out that the majority of complaints came from women who had never seen the ads, and had been encouraged to write in by an outraged newspaper columnist.
Earnings of £30,000 per week propelled her into the ranks of the it-girls and allowed her to lead a lifestyle of parties, drugs and sex. The UK tabloid press reported this in detail, even more so when she became addicted to cocaine, had a tumultuous affair with footballer and fellow addict Mark Bosnich, and became involved in prostitution.
She traces her cocaine addiction back to when she was prescribed morphine after her car accident as a child –
| “ | The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it out. | ” |
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—Sophie Anderton, BBC Real Story, May 2004 |
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In 2006, she was diagnosed and treated for bipolar disorder and made a minor return to modelling as the frontperson for that year's National Egg Awareness Campaign.
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