40 years of Wild Living - Kate moss 40th birthday..

The famously grungy shots prompted a great deal of vitriol, including the assertion from the then editor of Cosmopolitan, Marcelle d'Argy Smith, that the images were 'hideous and tragic'.The ordinary girl from South London, daughter of a barmaid mother and travel agent father, was on her way.

Since then she has been a beautiful blot on the cultural landscape; somehow hanging on in there through good times and bad, despite scandal, disgrace after disgrace and, of course, drug allegations.

She has been cast in gold by sculptor Marc Quinn, had her naked portrait painted by Lucian Freud, and gazed down from a million billboards and glossy magazine covers.

She is the most enduring and popular British fashion model of all time, eclipsing even Twiggy.