Model Jia Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. At 26, she passed away from AIDS. In the biographical drama "Jia" the girl was depicted by Angelina Jolie. Jia was the daughter of the owner of a network of restaurants, Italian Joseph Karangie, and a housewife with the Irish and Welsh roots of Kathleen Adams. Cherangie has two older brothers, Joe and Michael. One of them talked about GII’s childhood like this: “She had a small bed with a canopy, where dolls were lying everywhere.

She was an ordinary little girl, so I remembered her. ” Little Jia Karangie and her mother, despite the apparent idyll, Giya’s childhood cannot be called cloudless. The family’s family life was stormy - they constantly argued and quarreled. It was terrible, ”recalls the girl’s brother. As a result, the marriage collapsed with a bang, and in the year Kathlin left, leaving her children to her husband, which was a real blow to Gia.

In her youth, Jia Karangi later accused the mother of the quaranji of “breaking her childhood daughter,” and it was because of her that the girl was addicted to drugs. Relatives recalled that Little Jia became a real manipulator and a spoiled child who did not receive enough maternal attention. In adolescence, the Jia Karangie model became completely uncontrollable: she violated the commandant hour, experimented with alcohol, pills and marijuana.

Her best friends were “Bowie children” - a group of obsessed fans of musician David Bowie, who copied his “defiantly strange, glamorous” style. The musician was interested in quaranges not only with his unusual look, but also by ambiguous sexual preferences. Later, one of the friends said that Jia was a real Thomboy Tomboy-a rival girl, a kid. The indefatigable sexuality was the only thing in which Karangi was sure and which was very proud of.

She could easily kiss the man he liked on her lips, grab him and the like, ”recalls her friend. Together with the "children of Bowie", Karangi often went to concerts and was hanging out in gay clubs in the center of Philadelphia. Giya’s behavior was upset by her mother - she even took her daughter to a psychologist, but this did not help. Then Kathleen decided to take her daughter and invited her to try herself at a model age - the schoolgirl had an angelic face and a laid figure.

Jia Karangi in Cosmopolitan, however, the modeling business found the quarrels himself. In the night club, the summer ji was noticed by Maurice Tannenbaum, who at that time was a hairdresser-stylist and a novice photographer. Shocked by the beauty of the girl, Maurice offered her a free photo shoot. And realizing that he had found a real diamond, he soon took the pencil to New York to present it to the whole world.

The model of the model at the beginning of the year Summer Jia collected suitcases and finally moved to New York. Thanks to the contract with the Vilhelmina agency, Karangi managed to instantly take off to the top, which is a glaring rarity in the world of fashion. The photographers liked the style of Giya's slightly cheeky behavior. Very cool, but at the same time very vulnerable, ”recalls Andrea Blanch photographer.

The photographers liked the style and slightly cheeky behavior of GII, photographer Francesco Skavullo - in the future a girl’s close friend - remembers the day when Jia entered his studio: “In my whole career, I met, maybe only 3 girls from whom my jaw had dropped. And Jia is undoubtedly among them. " Jia starred in the most fashionable magazines by the end of the year, Jia starred in the most fashionable magazines including American Vogue and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The first naked photo shoot was arranged by the fashion photographer Chris von Wangenheim - this is how the legendary GII photos appeared behind a metal net. The legendary GII photo for a metal net, but together with money and success in the life of GII, cocaine, which was then sold on every corner, firmly settled. Personal grief was aggravated - her mentor Wilhelmin Cooper died of lung cancer.

In the spring of the year, Karangi found the “perfect” way to cope with the blow - heroin. Together with glory to the life of Giya, the drugs firmly entered the photographers soon began to suspect that the unbridled behavior of Gia was associated with drug abuse. The model could easily be overwhelmed, often late or did not appear on the set at all, often starred “under the high”.

The release of Vogue for the November of the year shows how far Jia went in her addiction. In the photographs, you can see distinct traces of injections in the hands of a girl. Jia Karangi in Vogue magazine for November in November, Jia left Wilhelmina and signed a contract with Ailin Ford. However, the famous Ford Models agency was able to endure GII's tricks for only three weeks - as a result, the contract was broken.

A few months later, the Cherage disappeared from the New York Fashion stage to cope with addiction. The girl passed several courses of treatment that did not bring special results. The death in the car accident of her close friend, photographer Chris von Wangenheim, became a justification for Gia: she began to use heroin without stopping.Jia Karangie and Cindy Linter after several years of abuse in the girl’s arms developed a terrible abscess, and huge cysts appeared on her back.

In addition, during the next treatment, Jia gained in weight, but was still full of desire to work. The April number, rented in the winter of the year, was the last cover for GII. In the photo, the girl hides her hands behind her back: many were sure that this was due to traces of injections, but the photographer Francesco Skavullo assured that in this way the model tried to hide excess weight.

Jia Karangi, a year quickly spreading rumors about Gia's dependence led to the fact that the photographers refused to work with her. Those who dared to invite the quarangers to the studio were horrified. In the spring of the year, on the set in North Africa, GII found a package of drugs - this was the last drop. Under the pressure of the family, Jia declared herself bankrupt and passed a half -month rehabilitation course.

After the treatment, the quaranger remained to live in a suburb of Philadelphia, got a job as a saleswoman in the jeans and a cashier in a local supermarket. In parallel, the girl attended courses at a local college and studied the photo. The traces of Jia Karangi’s injections hid the idyll under the sleeves did not last long: after 3 months the girl returned to Atlantic City and took up prostitution to make money for drugs.

Several times she was raped and beaten, but the girl did not care. The personal life of Giya Karangi, after moving to New York, the summer Jia barely poured into the world of fashion, which is famous for a slight attitude to sex: she expected, first of all, love and compassion. In search of a stable relationship, the quarrel fell in love with those whom she barely knew, often experiencing the pain of unrequited feelings.

Jia felt extremely lonely “She just wanted someone to hug her. It was very sad, ”recalls the model of the model. Jia felt incredibly lonely and even asked Michael's brother to live with her in New York. One of the most famous companions of GII was Cindy Linter Mr. Girls, the girls were not only mistresses, but also colleagues: their joint photos amaze with sensuality.

There were also rumors that Jia was a girl of actor Mickey Rurk. One of the most famous companions of GII was the makeup artist Cindy Lynter in the year Jia met with a summer student of college Alissa Golden, a heroin drug addict. Their relationship lasted several years with alternating success. The Karangie’s girlfriend pulled Ji at the bottom itself: the model began to drive drunk and steal from family members and friends.

Trailer: Jia Russian subtitles for the last three years of Jia's life was especially close to Rob Feham, whom she met at rehabilitation. Rob became the only person whom the mother of the Karangi let into the ward of her daughter at death. In the last months of Karangie’s life, she was finally able to achieve what had longed for her whole short life - her mother’s undivided attention, who literally moved to her daughter’s ward.

The last photo of Giya Karangi on November 18, summer Jia died. At the time of Karangie's death, she looked so terrifying that the director of the funeral bureau advised to bury the girl in a closed coffin. The funeral passed quietly - as the family wished, shocked by facts from the life of the girl and her diagnosis, which few knew about in those years.

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