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KATE Moss has revealed she felt "pressured" into posing topless at 15 - and says she'd never let her daughter strip off for the cameras.

The 44-year-old supermodel admits she didn't like taking her clothes off as a teenager but was trying to make it in the industry back in the early 90s.

 Kate Moss poses topless as a teenager for the Calvin Klein Obsession campaign
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Kate Moss poses topless as a teenager for the Calvin Klein Obsession campaignCredit: Calvin Klein

According to the , she told a US telly show: “Yes, there was pressure. I worked with a woman photographer called Corinne Day and she always liked me with no top on.

"I did not like it at all.”

Her photographer ex-boyfriend Mario Sorrenti, who was behind her famous 1993 Calvin Klein Obsession ad, also took photos of her half-naked.

But she says that as the pair were dating she was "kind of used to it".

 Kate says she wouldn't let her 15-year-old daughter Lila Grace pose topless
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Kate says she wouldn't let her 15-year-old daughter Lila Grace pose toplessCredit: Getty - Contributor
 Kate Moss has been slammed multiple times for the infamous quote
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Kate Moss has been slammed multiple times for the infamous quoteCredit: Getty - Contributor

Asked what advice she would give younger models, she said: “They don’t have to do it if they don’t want to do it. I wouldn’t let my
daughter do it.”

She did say that she would support 15-year-old daughter, Lila Grace Moss Hack - whose dad is her ex Jefferson Hack - if she decided to go into the modelling world.

During the chat, she also disowned her most famous quote — “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” - after infuriating eating disorder campaigners for a decade.

She now claims a mate made up the phrase back in 2009 — and that her model pals would repeat it to put each other off eating.

 Kate Moss says her model friends used to say it to each other so they would not snack on unnecessary foods
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Kate Moss says her model friends used to say it to each other so they would not snack on unnecessary foodsCredit: Getty - Contributor
 Kate Moss became the face of the 'heroin chic' movement during the peak of her modelling career
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Kate Moss became the face of the 'heroin chic' movement during the peak of her modelling careerCredit: Getty Images - Getty

Kate said: “My friend used to say it, because you know, we were all living together, and we’d go for the biscuits and go, 'Oh, nothing tastes as g . . . ' It’s a little jingle.

“But there’s so much more diversity now, I think it’s right. There’s so many different sizes and colours and heights.

“Why would you just be a one-size model and being represented for all of these people? So, yes, for sure, it’s better.”

Kate, who was speaking to NBC’s Megyn Kelly, became the face of the “heroin chic” movement — which celebrated very skinny bodies — after she began modelling aged 14.

Fellow Brit model Katie Green, 31, who launched the Say No To Size Zero campaign, said of Kate’s original slogan: “The pro-anorexia websites go crazy for quotes like this.”

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