Young Forever - Gia Carangi

Full name - Gia Marie Carangi

Gia Carangi was born on January 29, 1960, in Philadelphia - USA.
Her family did not have a very good relationship and Gia at the age of 11 stayed with her father, because her mother left them. The girl worked in a diner with her father, while she was completely deprived of the attention of her parents and suffered greatly from this.

After some time, Gia Carangi moved to New York, where she began her career in the modeling business. She met a former model who became the owner of a modeling agency and became friends with her, came under her patronage.

Nevertheless, at the beginning her modeling career was not very brilliant, but then Gia met famous photographers and very quickly became one of the most popular and in-demand models that time.

Gia Carangi, is one of the first supermodels, the predecessor of such famous supermodels as - Claudia Schiffer and Cindy Crawford... With Cindy, she was very similar, for which Cindy was later called - Baby Gia.

Gia Carangi has become popular not only because of her excellent external data. It had other advantages over most models as well. Gia could easily enter different roles, reflect moods and transform into different images.
In addition, during this period, most of the models were blondes, and Gia, with her dark hair color, stood out against their background. All this gave her the opportunity to quickly gain popularity and start making good money.

Of course, her income in comparison with modern supermodels seems scanty, but then the time was different and the money was much more expensive. Therefore, Jia's income of $ 100,000 per annum or more was quite good. And then even better offers followed, and Gia could earn $ 500,000 or more.

True, this never came true. Wilhelmina Cooper, mentor and owner of a modeling agency, has died. Jia Carangi, greatly worried about her death. Since childhood, she was deprived of the attention of her parents, and now she has lost her friend-mentor.

Gia always wanted love, affection and care, but she received neither love nor care from the people around her. Everyone around was looking for money and sex.

Under the influence of these events, Jia Carangi began to take soft drugs, and then switched to heroin.

This affected her modeling career badly. Gia began to be late for the shooting, she could no longer enter the role and take on different images. At times she misbehaved, and sometimes she even fell asleep during photo shoots. Everyone knew about her drug addiction, but no one wanted to help her quit. Everyone did their job and used Jia for as long as she could work. Photographers and magazines only wanted photographs from her, which brought money.

Gia Carangi repeatedly tried to quit her addiction, but always something happened that returned her to her previous state. And then Jia fell ill with pneumonia and ended up in the hospital.

There, after an examination, it turned out that she had AIDS. Gia was in the hospital for several months and there she found what she had wanted since childhood - the attention of her mother. Her mother Kathleen was now constantly with her daughter and protected her, did not allow anyone into her room. Therefore, few people knew that Gia Carangi was seriously ill.

At this time, Gia remembered her faith in God and she had an icon in her room, she wanted to shoot a story for children, where she told about the dangers of drugs. Only the video was never recorded.

Until her death, Jia Carangi's face was beautiful, but she no longer wanted to live.
Gia died on November 18, 1986.

The orderlies came to the ward, pick up and take the body to the morgue. When Gia was put on a gurney, pieces literally fell off her back, so much AIDS disfigured her body.

Gia Carangi was buried on November 21, 1986, in a closed coffin.

And in the world of fashion and glossy magazinesdid not even know that the famous supermodel had died. Most of her acquaintances from the fashion world learned about Jia's death only a year after her funeral.

Gia Carangi lived only 26 years old, she died in 1986, 25 years ago. Then there was still no Internet, but nevertheless there are now many sites dedicated to Gia. There is even an official site for the supermodel and many sites with her made in different languages. Most of the living, successful top models don't have that many sites.

Gia has made tremendous contributions to the fashion industry and model business, thanks to her photo shoots, photographs of that time began to come to life and brunettes pressed blondes on the covers of glossy magazines. And the life story of Gia Carangi was taken as the basis for the biographical film - Gia. This film helped shape Angelina Jolie's film career.