"All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying"
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The intent here feels corrective. Moss was mythologized as an emblem of cool minimalism and effortless hedonism: the face that could look bored on purpose and make it aspirational. This quote punctures that persona without theatrics. "All of a sudden" is the key phrase. It points to how quickly the industry can conscript a teenager into a global machine, then treat the shock as part of the job description. Modeling's glamour relies on making labor invisible; she makes it visible by talking about time, travel, and social loss rather than clothes.
The subtext is about agency. "To get all of this attention" sounds passive, like weather rolling in. Attention happens to her, and "quite terrifying" lands because it's the one evaluative moment after a string of facts. The crying isn't sentimental; it's evidence of a nervous system pushed past its limits.
Context matters: Moss came up in the 1990s, when fashion's globalization intensified and the "it girl" pipeline sped up. The industry sold intimacy with an image; she reminds you what that intimacy can cost the person inside it.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Moss, Kate. (2026, January 17). All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/all-of-a-sudden-to-get-all-of-this-attention-and-80792/
Chicago Style
Moss, Kate. "All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/all-of-a-sudden-to-get-all-of-this-attention-and-80792/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/all-of-a-sudden-to-get-all-of-this-attention-and-80792/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.




