My encounter from hell with Lottie Moss: MOLLY CLAYTON reveals how she was left stunned by Kate’s ‘rude’ half-sister – as the retired OnlyFans star turns her attention to TV while recovering from a cocaine addiction and Ozempic seizure

It stays the rudest encounter I’ve ever had with a celeb. 5 months on and the considered it nonetheless sends a pointy twinge down my backbone.

At a London Style Week celebration final September, the cocktails had been flowing and visitors had been in convivial temper. Lottie Moss had been invited – and possibly paid – by a girls’s on-line vogue model to come back all the way down to the occasion at a church in West London – and she or he was having fun with being the main focus of consideration.

I launched myself to the ex-OnlyFans mannequin to reward her for having warned her followers in regards to the potential risks of the weight-loss jab, Ozempic. I additionally wished to recommend we meet up as a result of Lottie may very well be of curiosity to the Mail and MailOnline’s youthful readers.

However after I did so, I used to be met with a scathingly impolite rebuke as she appeared my buddy and me up and down and demanded: ‘Who even are you?’

Lottie left me in little question that she was enraged by my very presence, after which she launched right into a rant about how horrid newspapers had been to her, and requested why I might ever select to be a journalist.

I’ve bought a thick pores and skin – and I do not maintain it in opposition to her.

Mannequin and actuality star Lottie Moss, 27, is the youthful sister of Kate Moss

It has actually not been a simple journey for Lottie, 27. Her struggles because the youthful half-sister of Kate Moss, maybe probably the most well-known mannequin the world has ever seen, have been extensively documented. Lottie has typically spoken of feeling within the shadow of Kate, 51, and cited their troubled relationship as a contributory consider her decline into alcohol and drug dependancy for which she went to rehab in 2022.

Viewers of Netflix’s Celeb Bear Hunt, launched in the present day, will likely be dearly hoping she has now lastly turned a nook in her battle with substance abuse.

The present hosted by Holly Willoughby sees 12 ‘movie star bears’ hunted down within the Costa Rican jungle by survival skilled Bear Grylls, with the final to be caught topped because the winner. Her rivals embody designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, former tennis star Boris Becker and ex-Spice Lady Mel B.

And, judging by Tuesday’s press junket for Bear Hunt, on the super-posh five-star Raffles resort in central London, the place she strutted round in little greater than a white corset and tights, Lottie is feeling optimistic in regards to the future.

Even so, it is reasonably a far cry from the promise of her early profession, throughout which she modelled for Calvin Klein and appeared on the duvet of Vogue whereas nonetheless a youngster. On the time, some within the vogue world hailed her – little question too unexpectedly – as the following Kate Moss.

Kate and Lottie attend a Topshop present at autumn/winter London vogue week 2014

So the place did all of it go mistaken for Lottie – and has she lastly turned issues round?

Born Charlotte Moss in 1998 to journey agent Peter Moss and his Norwegian second spouse, Inger Solnordal, she was raised within the city of Haywards Heath in West Sussex.

Throughout what Lottie says was a humble upbringing, her older half-sister Kate (they share the identical father) was already internationally well-known.

‘I had a really chilled childhood,’ Lottie advised Abbey Clancy’s Exhibit A podcast just lately.

‘My dad and mom had a cutesy small home, and I might stroll to highschool. Once I noticed how glamorous [Kate’s] job was, I made a decision I wished to do it.’

‘Everybody I knew, knew who she was. I used to get teased as a result of she was in Playboy. Boys would inform me they’d seen my sister’s boobs.’

Lottie was first scouted after she was a 13-year-old bridesmaid at Kate’s wedding ceremony to musician Jamie Hince in 2011. By January 2014, Lottie had signed with Storm Fashions, the company that had found her older sister in 1988, on the age of simply 14, at New York’s JFK airport.

At Topshop’s London Style week occasion in February 2014, Lottie, who had simply turned 16, sat in a star-studded entrance row alongside Kate, Vogue supremo Anna Wintour, fashions Kendall Jenner and Poppy Delevingne and Topshop boss Philip Inexperienced. The collections Kate designed for the excessive avenue large had been wildly profitable.

Lottie went on to shoot campaigns for the likes of Calvin Klein and Dolce & Gabbana, after which she moved her research to a neighborhood personal college.

Lottie has revealed lately that executives within the modelling business plied her with medicine and alcohol as she was nonetheless a youngster

At solely 17, she reached a top that many fashions by no means do, showing in Vogue with Kylie Jenner and Bella Hadid for the January 2016 version. And just some months later she starred on the duvet of Might’s Vogue Paris alongside mannequin Fortunate Blue Smith.

However then issues took a flip for the more serious.

Lottie has revealed lately that executives within the modelling business plied her with medicine and alcohol when she was nonetheless a youngster.

She advised the Head Robust podcast in 2023: ‘When you have got individuals round you who’re enabling you, I’m speaking at excessive vogue occasions and folks in a penthouse suite, and it is individuals which are working for a model that could be very well-known and so they’re sat there doing medicine with you as a 19-year-old.’

Throughout the pandemic in 2021, whereas dwelling in her older sister’s ten-bedroom Gloucestershire mansion, Lottie launched her account on OnlyFans and started to publish X-rated snaps and movies for on-line subscribers.

The content material noticed her pose totally nude, however her new profession got here at a value. By 2022 Lottie had been admitted into rehab for substance abuse points.

That very same yr, it was revealed the Storm modelling company had deleted Lottie from its web site, prompting hypothesis that they’d axed the troubled star over her wild life-style, cocaine dependancy and beauty surgical procedure.

After ending her OnlyFans profession, Lottie has set her sights on turning her weekly podcast into an ’empire’, and even hopes to host the Oscars someday

After her stint in rehab, Lottie bought a face tattoo on her cheek which learn ‘lover’. She advised Glamour journal: ‘Sure, it was impulsive, however after years of being so managed, it was my approach of expressing that I’m free. I am now not managed.’

And regardless of calling her half-sister ‘nice’ simply months earlier, Lottie completed the yr with an Instagram publish that appeared to specific the alternative.

She wrote: ‘I perceive I’ve come from a really privileged place [of] being the sister of somebody very well-known, however consider it or not that individual by no means actually supported me.’

In 2023, she spoke of feeling ‘fairly deserted by my sister’ and mentioned she was reluctant to point out ‘the actual Lottie’.

But final autumn the sisters appeared finally to have mended fences, as they reunited to rejoice their dad’s eightieth birthday. Lottie posted a collection of snaps alongside Kate, their brother Nick Moss and Kate’s daughter Lila.

August 2024 had seen Lottie launch her personal podcast, Dream On. Its weekly episodes promised ‘unfiltered conversations’ along with her associates and ‘popular culture icons’.

Since then, she has made headlines by admitting to a drink and medicines drawback and revealing she took weight reduction jab Ozempic illegally, which resulted in her having a seizure and being rushed to hospital final yr.

In October, Lottie gave up her OnlyFans account and admitted she wished to give attention to her podcast and tv profession.

As for what’s to come back after the jungles of Costa Rica, Lottie mentioned on her podcast final week that her sights are set on creating an ’empire’ whereas additionally discovering the proper man.

‘In 5 years’ time I see myself with a hoop on my finger, infants and having purchased a home.

‘I might love the podcast to be changed into a chat present with big visitors,’ she mentioned.

‘I need it to be an empire. I wish to make it to Hollywood, I might like to do extra tv.’

And Lottie says she has a good loftier aim: ‘I wish to host the Oscars.’

An admirable ambition, surely. However for the second, not less than, the closest that Lottie is more likely to get to the largest present in Hollywood is as her sister’s plus one – if she will handle to remain in her good books.