Kate Moss and her half-sister, Lottie, were once so close they lived together during the Covid lockdowns.
Now, Lottie has revealed that she became estranged from her family to such an extent that even her own mother had stopped talking to her.
The fall-out happened when Lottie, 26, started stripping off for the adult subscription website OnlyFans, after moving to Los Angeles in 2021.
“I did have a hunch that people wouldn’t be as forgiving in the UK, but it was nothing like how I felt when I did get back,” she says.
“I lost a lot of friends from the modelling industry. My mum didn’t speak to me for weeks and my family was in a little bit of turmoil over it.”
Lottie grew up in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, with her mother, Inger, who’s Norwegian. She’s the second wife of travel agent Peter Moss, the father Lottie shares with Kate, 50.
Speaking on her new podcast, Dream On With Lottie Moss, she adds: “There’s so many OnlyFans girls in LA and so many porn stars in LA. People really just accept them into society, and people are cool with them, and nobody asks many questions about it.”
The 26-year-old, who was educated at £20,000-per-year Bede’s school, adds: “Then I moved back to London, and this was when it got real for me. All my friends thought I was having a serious mental breakdown.”
Lottie was a bridesmaid at Kate’s wedding and, when she started modelling at the age of 16 for Teen Vogue, it appeared that she was destined to follow in her sister’s footsteps.
But she now says living in Kate’s shadow left her ‘depressed’ and forced her to turn down working with high-end fashion houses.
“For years with modelling I have just been told who I was, and I had been put down this alley of, ‘this is who you are, you are Kate Moss’s sister and you’re going to be part two of her’, and it so wasn’t me.”
While she previously appeared in advertising campaigns for the likes of Calvin Klein, Lottie insists that she achieves more job satisfaction from OnlyFans.