Kate Moss “only just scraped in” as a supermodel, claims a top photographer.
Terry O’Neill believes the British star is only famous by association. He doesn’t rank the 38-year-old among the top models of the 90s, such as Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer.
"The supermodels were the last great girls, and Kate Moss only just scraped in under the wire," he told British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
"I never rated her - Kate only endured because she was associated with those supermodels. I mean, Jean [Shrimpton] was the best of all the English models and sadly it ended there."
Terry dated Jean in the 60s but the relationship ended after a drunken night at the model's house.
“I dropped such a terrible clanger with her,” he said.
"Someone jumped into bed with me, so I carry on with the machinery of it all, as you do. I wake up the next morning and find that it's Jean's best friend. Of course, she told her everything and that was that. But I really wished it hadn't ended that way. Jean was a fabulous girl."
Terry has photographed the likes of Audrey Hepburn and Brigitte Bardot. He feels underwhelmed by today’s famous women. Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge is among the prominent faces he has no desire to photograph.
"Nah - I don't think so," he said before adding, "because I don't fancy her. I mean that poor girl, Kate, what's going to happen to her? Hopefully William will be king and she'll be a new breed. And she does seem very together, but, well, [she's] too thin."