For fashion model Gia Carangi, life was as short and hot as a burning fuse. That’s how she lived it. And according to a poem she wrote, that’s how she wanted it. She hit this town at age 18 as ...

Did you catch the name in the middle there: Gia Carangi? Younger readers ... called "the world's first supermodel" and "the hottest cover girl" of the late Seventies and early Eighties.

One historic figure was Gia Carangi, who was born in 1960 in ... gracing her first cover of Cosmopolitan Italy. Her career lasted less than five years, but she became the world's first supermodel ...

Considered by many to be the first supermodel, Gia Carangi was only 26 years old when she died of AIDS-related complications in 1986 It's been 25 years since Angelina Jolie starred as Gia Carangi ...

(The film tells the story of model Gia Carrangi, one of world’s first supermodels. She died of AIDS-related complications at age 26 in 1986.) “Angelina Jolie in that movie totally came to my ...