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The story of the rise and fall of Gia Carangi, who managed to overturn overnight the idea of how a fashion model should behave on the runway. Gia Marie Carangi was born in Philadelphia in 1960. Raised in a troubled family, at 18 Gia heads to late-1970s New York to make a dizzying career in the modeling business. In less than 10 years she went from an aspiring starlet to a supermodel every show wanted to book. And although the specter of sex followed Gia everywhere, it meant little to the beauty. Her one irreplaceable love became makeup artist Linda. However, the strength of their romantic union was undermined not only by Gia's wild temperament but also by plain drug abuse...