At first she is a little clipped and aloof, but she mellows as the day goes on. Her face bears no trace of make-up (at least, before the make-up artist gets to her) but her distinctive pale-green eyes and angular bone structure make her instantly striking. I'd rather spend more on other things, like my garden." She says that she doesn't spend much on clothing. She arrives at the West Hollywood hotel where our shoot is taking place wearing a vintage white billowy shirt, vintage jeans and brown suede ankle boots from Yves Saint Laurent. Valletta on the runway for Versace in 2000 I love having a little bit more control over my destiny." "In acting and modelling I am always part of someone else's vision.
It features designers who focus on "ethical consumerism": "As a woman who loves fashion but wanted to buy things that were responsibly made, I know that there was nowhere to do it… Eventually I'd like to start my own label, but I wanted to understand the business first." It is, she says, her most fulfilling role to date.
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Recently, alongside Sean Bean, she started shooting the new series Legends, a thriller developed by one of the producers behind Homeland and 24.Īnd as if being a supermodel and actress were not enough, she also launched an online store, Master & Muse, in September last year. She has also forged a successful career as an actress, with more than 20 credits, including the film Hitch (2005) and the television drama Revenge (2011-2014).
So far she has had 16 American Vogue covers - more than Shalom Harlow and Kate Moss combined - and has appeared on the cover of dozens of other magazines, as well as being the face of Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein and Versace. Valletta, now 40, is still shooting covers. From that moment on I never stopped working." I ended up getting a Vogue cover on my first sitting. I'll shoot some beauty on you.' And he did. "Arthur Elgort was smoking his pipe and said, 'Don't worry, darling. She sought help at 25 because she “didn’t want to die."I was totally gutted," Valletta says with a laugh. By 22, her addiction was at its peak, with cocaine and alcohol abuse. She was discovered at 15 and landed her first Vogue cover by 18, and the lifestyle gave her unlimited access to drugs. In her 2014 MindBodyGreen speech, the Oklahoma native said that at just 8 years old, she began looking for ways to get high - “I sniffed markers, I sniffed glue, fingernail polish, anything that could give me a buzz” - because she was “uncomfortable being a human being.” She started to use drugs that were around the “culture” of her family soon after, including marijuana. It’s hard to do, but I want to move through the world as gently as I can.” Even people that I don’t think are right. I want to allow myself the space to have bad days, be sad, be mad, be loving and accepting of others. “I don’t want to talk it, I want to live it.
“I want to be the person that I aspire to be,” she said. So Valletta remains focused on her health - and living a sober life. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Left to my own devices, I guarantee you no matter how much I love life, my family, if I take a drink or any of my drugs of choice, I’ll be dead. She continued, “Only by being sober do I have any chance of survival. “So why would I be ashamed of being clean and saying: I have a disease that I can’t control?” “I didn’t have a problem when I was out using, if you saw me high or drunk,” said Valletta, who is also an actress (on TV’s Revenge as well as in films including Hitch and What Lies Beneath), of the years during which she was using. In an interview with Porter magazine, Valletta talked about going public with her addiction at a 2014 MindBodyGreen event, admitting of the speech she gave at the invite-only event, “I didn’t think anyone would see.” However, her powerful story - in which the Vogue cover star revealed she would show up at photo shoots drunk and high - went viral. She says if she wasn’t, she wouldn’t be alive. The 45-year-old supermodel, who soared to fame in the ‘90s alongside Kate Moss and Shalom Harlow, has been drug- and alcohol-free for 20-plus years. (Photo: Daniele Venturelli/Daniele Venturelli/WireImage )Īmber Valletta is speaking out about her addiction. Model Amber Valletta, at the Fashion Awards in December, believes that if she didn't get sober 25 years ago, she wouldn't be alive.
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