Fashion model Gia Marie Carangi Bashny.Net

One of the world's first supermodels, whose fees were calculated for the huge early 1980 sums - hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The owner of sensual shapes, expressive face and exceptional acting talent allows her to get used to a variety of images.
Gia Carangi was born January 29, 1960, in a suburb of Philadelphia, the son of Italian Americans Joe Karanja and American with Irish and Welsh roots Kathleen Karanja. Father owned a small network of caves in which Gia earned. Education of girls engaged mother. When Jie was 11 years old, his mother left the family, which is why in the following years, Jia suffers from a lack of attention from parents. At age 18, Karanja moved to New York where he quickly enough has been successful as a model.




Later Gia brother, Michael Karanja, says that the decision to release Jia in New York one was the biggest mistake of their family.



Jia became famous not so much due to an atypical appearance Centerfolds (in those days in the modeling industry have been claimed blonde), but primarily because of its ability to get used to a completely different images.

In October 1978, after the photo shoot for the magazine "Vogue" photographer Chris von Wangenheim Karanja asked to take some pictures in the nude. Also in the photo shoot, at the request of the photographer, makeup artist Cindy participated Linter. Photos of naked Gia, standing behind a fence, became one of the most controversial for those times. By the end of the year, she appeared in several magazines already, including the American "Vogue».

In 1979, for 5 months Gia appeared on the covers of British "Vogue" French "Vogue" American "Vogue" and twice on the cover of American "Cosmopolitan". The second cover of "Cosmopolitan", where Karanja posed in a yellow swimsuit Greek style, was named the best in the career of Gia. Figure Karanja considered sensual, she contrasted with the self-conscious models of her time.



Becoming quite famous, Gia could not afford to settle for those working proposals that she did not like. Sometimes she did not agree to a photo shoot just because she did not like the proposed hairstyle.









After a forced end of a career - a saleswoman.

Gia Carangi became the first American celebrity of women who died very early
She was 26 years old.

Her body dreamed of many thousands of men and women start to decompose during his lifetime. When paramedics lifted her body to shift it to a gurney and taken to the morgue of the back fell off and stayed in a hospital bed.

At a memorial service in front of the closed coffin gathered only relatives and close friends. It took at least a year before the world learned of her death.