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At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970'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. She was the darling of moguls and movie stars, royalty and rockers.
Gia was also a girl in pain, desperate for her mother's approval and a drug addict on a tragic slide toward oblivion, who started going 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 on 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.
Gia's Stats:
Height 5'8"
Dress Size 6-8-10
Bust 34 Waist 24 Hips 35 1/2
Shoes 8 1/2
Hair Brown
Eyes Brown
- January 1960 Born in Philadelphia
- 1975-1977 Lincoln High School , David Bowie fanatic
- April 1978 Moves to NY City. 350 E. 62, Apt. 3G
- April 1979 Cover, British Vogue, by Chatelain
- April 1979 Cover, Cosmopolitan
- May 1979 Cover, French Vogue, by Newton
- July 1979 Cover Cosmopolitan
- August 1979 Cover of Vogue
- 1978/79 Poster girl Studio 54
- January 1980 Cover Cosmopolitan
- April 1980 Florida shots by John Stember
- July 1980 Cover Cosmopolitan
- August 1980 Cover, French Vogue, by Watson
- November 1980 Last great Vogue shots of Gia, by Piel and Scavullo
- 1983 20/20 focuses on Gia in attempt to portray the dark side of modelling
- February 1981 Cover, Italian Vogue, by Grignachi
- 1982 attempts comeback after battle with heroin addiction
- April 1982 Cover of American Vogue, a gift from Scavullo
- 1984 makes another comeback attempt in Modelling
- Nov 18 1986 Dies of complications from AIDS at 10:00 AM
- Funeral. "Beloved Daughter" is her epitaph.
- July 1996 Paramount begins pre-production on story of her life