Thing of Beauty (70 page)

Elite’s Monique Pillard, who directed Gia’s return and was her last mother figure in New York (47); the 1982 American
Cosmo
cover that Scavullo “gave” Gia (48); Gia’s page in
Scavullo: Women
in which she discussed the end of her drug use, even though she was using again by the time it was published (49)

A therapeutic self-portrait Gia did during her months at Eagleville Hospital (50), and her certificate for completing the first part of the rigorous program (51)

Gia with rehab friends Dawn Phillips (52), with whom she briefly lived after being diagnosed with AIDS, and Rob Fay (53); her last Christmas with Rochelle (54)

Gia after rehab (55); the Joe Eula painting of Gia winking that hangs in Lizzette Kattan’s living room (56); Kathleen and Gia in late 1985 (57); Cindy Crawford—whose looks earned her the nickname “Baby Gia” in the modeling world until she made her own fame—in a Scavullo shot for which she was deliberately made up to resemble Gia (58)

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This designates the first appearance of a name that has been changed to protect the privacy of a character or source. Each pseudonym refers to a specific person and no other personal details have been altered: there are no composite characters in the book.

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