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Model Cindy Crawford, who rose to prominence the year Carangi died, was referred to as "Baby Gia" because of her resemblance to Carangi. [44] Crawford later recalled, "My agents took me to all the photographers who liked Gia: Albert Watson, Francesco Scavullo, Bill King. Everyone loved her look so much that they gladly saw me."
Gia died at age 26 of AIDS, likely due to her addiction to heroin, on Nov. 18, 1986. She was one of the first well-known cisgender women to be diagnosed with AIDS in the '80s. Back then, people...
She died of AIDS-related complications in 1986 at the age of 26, becoming one of the first famous women to die of the disease. Her life was dramatized in the television film Gia, starring Angelina Jolie, which debuted on HBO in 1998. Take a look at these stunning photos to see the unique looks of Gia Carangi in the 1970s and 1980s.
When Gia Carangi's life is remembered at all, it is remembered as a tragedy. Though she is acknowledged as the world's first true supermodel, her short life and her tragic demise mean that her name isn't as widely known as you'd expect from someone who had achieved such a feat.
Model Gia Carangi - whom Angelina Jolie played in 1998's Gia - was only 26 years old when she died of AIDS-related complications in 1986.
Philadelphia-born Carangi died at 26 of HIV-related complications, most likely after sharing needles while injecting heroin. The melancholic bisexual, a Vogue and Cosmopolitan cover girl between...
A revered fashion model plucked out of Philadelphia, Gia Carangi became addicted to heroin and died at 26 years old from AIDS in November 1986. She was edgy, she was fiery, and she was falling apart. America's first supermodel, Gia Carangi died too soon of her own demise.
Carangi models a spring look in a bright yellow fuzzy sweater and plain white trousers. Lensed in 1986, the year she died, this is one of the last modeling photos of Carangi. Her look for the image is quintessential ‘80s in a power suit and voluminous hair.
''Gia,'' scheduled to be shown in January, is the story of the young woman who may well have been the precursor of all those haunting images of emaciated, hollow-eyed fashion models, the look...
Gia Marie Carangi. Fashion Model. She was one of the first of the "Supermodels," and was portrayed in a television movie, "Gia" (1998) by actress Angelina Jolie, about her life and death. Born to a middle class family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where her father owned a string of hoagie shops, she was especially close to her mother, Kathleen.