Cocaine Kate � inspiring and influential?

[AB Asks]

Time magazine has released its list of the 100 people who have shaped the world this year. Featured in the list was Kate Moss. The list is supposed to highlight those whose "power, talent or moral example is transforming the world." Do you think Kate Moss is transforming the world with her 'moral example', and if she is � is there any hope for us?

[B00]

No- she's a mess!

I am amazed and disgusted that someone with a known drug habit is still allowed to 'work'. I know for a bloody certainty that had I been caught snorting coke that I'd not be able to find a job for love or money, yet she still earns shedloads. Sure she's pretty, but so are other models, and they (as yet anyway) haven't been accused of taking drugs.

[4getmenot]

she a loser. She may shes beat the drugs but I dont believe it for one second when she with that idiot boyfriend of hers. And who cares about her god damm clothes. They arent that nice you cant tell kate moss designed them and you can get them for a third of the price in primark. She looks ill, and is getting old ungracefully.

[IzzieQ]

She's a terrible example to young women.
Apparently her and Pete Doherty are hoping to adopt a child from abroad.
Please tell me that this could NEVER happen!

[jenstar]

I would have thought the implication in Kate Moss's case is more toward the power and talent criteria than the moral example criterion. Anyway, here's what Time magazine has to say about Kate Moss (and before anyone gets the wrong end of the stick, the people are listed in alphabetical order under each category, so 17 is NOT a ranking).

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100 /article/0,28804,1595326_1595332_1616692,00.ht ml

[Ollie_P]

I think it's great that Kate's on the list. I am however suprised that AB didn't query whether Osama bin Laden (who's also on the list) sets a good 'moral example'.

[Marvelman]

sorry to appear stupid, could someone please tell me how on earth she has helped to shape the world.

[jump79]

She took pity on a hopeless (in life and looks aswel) druggie with a bankrupt band, and began dating him. You need a very big and kind heart to do something as repulsive, yet sympathetic, as that.

[andy-hughes]

The notion that 'celebrities' 'shape' the world is a nonsense.

Her 'power' such as it is, is to convince people to buy clothes simply by being photographed wearing them. Now that is power!

Ms. Moss is simply one of the most photogenic women in the word. That's it.

The idea that she does (or indeed should!) provide a 'moral example' is frankly ludicrous.

Any young woman who sets up with a dough-faced loon with a smack habit who's musical talent is as shaky as his personal hygene (how could she let him touch her with those filty fingernails!) has got serious problems, and imitating Kate Moss is a very minor example of them.