- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGia Marie Carangi
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Gia Carangi was born on January 29, 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Blondie: Atomic (1980). She died on November 18, 1986 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Was blacklisted from modeling because fashion editors discovered track marks on her body. At age 26, she became one of the first women in America to die of AIDS.
- Was a huge fan of David Bowie for his fashion choices, ambiguous gender play and outspoken bisexuality.
- Her sexuality was often controversial, but she was known for always being involved in emotional relationships with women.
- One of the first supermodels to create unique poses and gestures for the camera.
- She was the face for Armani, Bloomingdale's, Citicorp, Cutex, Christian Dior, Perry Ellis, Diane von Furstenberg, Lancetti, Levi Strauss & Co., Maybelline, Versace, Vidal Sassoon and Yves Saint Laurent.
- It kind of creeps up on you, in a world that's, you know, none that anyone will ever know, except someone that has been there. [on her drug abuse during her ABC 20/20 (1978) interview in the early 1980s]
- I think God has a plan for me, but I don't think it's in this life.
- I felt very close to Wilhelmina, it was a great loss for me ... she was just a great person to have in my life ... her death was a terrible loss to me.
- Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, and above
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