MODEL/ Gia Carangi

A couple of years ago, I decided to sit down and watch a movie
about a model that ends up dying from the side effect of aids. I
started to watch the dvd with no great expectations, but since
those years have passed, the movie has stuck in my head. The
movie I am talking about is "Gia", the story of a successful model,
Gia Carangi from the 80s, that is beautiful, successful and has
her whole life looking positive. Unfortunately, Gia's state of mind
is not so together. She is needy (as are most human beings) and
alone. Unfortunately she turns to heroin, loses her closest loved
ones, betrays her family and ruins her life. In the end, Gia does
not die from heroin or aids (in the sense of the word), she dies
from pneumonia, brought on by her decreased immune system
which aids has caused.

It is hard to see someone who was almost handed success on a
platter, plummet in to a downward spiral. But I think this story
has an amazing moral behind it - that you may just see a face
that someone puts on for the camera, and you may imagine them
to have a perfect life, but behind that mask they can be lonely,
sad and incomplete. I like to imagine that if she had not died of
pneumonia, that Gia would have recovered from heroin addiction
(although it is rare) and had a nice life with her wonderful
girlfriend, Sandy Linter (make up artist).

To me, Gia is the epitome of beauty and mystery. Despite her
dramas, she did take some amazing photos, which I have
collected for you to see in the rest of this post :)



And here is the rest of it.