If Gia had not been so gorgeous, her rage, drug addiction and unpredictability would not have been tolerated in any high paying profession let alone the fashion world. Her antics are usually saved until after one becomes famous, not right out of the gate, but then again Gia lived life fiercely raw, honest and fearless to a fault. Was Gia’s beauty ultimately a curse? Or would she had found herself along the same destructive path even if she had not become a supermodel?
I don’t know. But what I do know is when someone is so beautiful no one really cares to know what pain rages inside them because that would force us to look past the physical, and we live in a world that rarely values anything past the physical. Image still reigns supreme and as long as the photograph translates beauty the reality, for some, means little.
Written by Chaka V.
I first came across Angelina Jolie when I watched “Bone Collector” with my frat brods and soro sisters sometime in 1999. Like many others, who are fascinated by beauty…and raw beauty that is, of any gender…I became a fan. Then, a year later, I rented a CD of 1998 HBO bio pic Gia, starring no less, Angelina Jolie, based on the glamorous yet tragic life of one of the worlds first super models, Gia Marie Carangi. You have to see it yourself to understand Gia. Or anyone who are naive yet beautiful, brave yet vulnerable, and all sorts of contrasts that makes her beautiful though at times hated, misunderstood or envied.
“Life and death, energy and peace, if i stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes, that I have made and would have unmade if I could.
The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it for having been allowed to walk where I’ve walked.
Which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it and above…”
Gia Marie Carangi 1960-1986
On Angelina Jolie, aside from the fact that I am a fan…after I have seen Gia in 2000, somehow, I was able to make a connection with her…I mean, I felt that I can relate to what she’s been through, both in the movies she’s made (particularly, Gia and Original sin, in some weird way, but not literally, I have never been into drugs or had sex for money or had sex with random guys! hello?) and personal life. From bad girl rep (misunderstood) to single mom to finally doing things right….If you really knew me, you’d know why. hahaha.
We all evolve, from good to bad, from bad to good…and we never really lose ourselves…we only become better….in the process, whole…and in this wholeness do we find what is essential…finally finding the right path.
To our far from mediocre life! And making it right. Cheers!
walking in MY SHOES! 