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Gia Carangi was just a girl born in Philadelphia, January 1960. She then went on to become one of the top models of the late 1970's & early 1980's, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at New York's Studio 54 and the Mudd Club, and redefining the industry's standard of beauty.
Gia was also a girl in pain, desperate for her mother's approval and a drug addict on a tragic slide toward devastation. Gia went directly from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to the heroin shooting galleries on New York's Lower East Side. Finally blackballed from modeling, Gia entered a vastly different world on the streets of New York and Atlantic City, and later in a rehab clinic. At twenty-six, she became one of the first women in America to die of AIDS, a hospital welfare case visited only by rehab friends and what remained of her family. This page is a tribute to her, one of the most beautiful women who ever lived.
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(Collage by my dear friend Hope G.)
