Perched on the edge of the table showing off the model pout that made her famous, Kate Moss looked set to steal the show in family snaps from her father's 80th birthday celebrations - until fans noticed another significant member of the party.
Supermodel Kate, 50, made a point of posing alongside her younger sister Lottie, 26, in the photos taken at The Griffin pub in Sussex, in a sign that the two have finally ended their frosty three year feud.
It was a pivotal moment for the pair who have not been pictured together in years, with Lottie previously claiming Kate 'doesn't even reply to my texts', despite once being so close that Lottie was a bridesmaid at Kate's wedding and even moved into her sister's Cotswolds mansion during the Covid pandemic.
However, tensions soon grew over Lottie's wild ways that saw her regularly taking drugs five times a week, which was a huge red flag to Kate who had ditched her own partying days.
Kate's love of boozing, which reportedly extended to flutes of prosecco at 8am and glasses of wine and vodka at lunch, saw friends coin her the nickname 'The Tank', but in recent years she's embraced yoga, wellness and quiet nights in.
After a frosty three year feud, Kate Moss and her younger sister Lottie appear to have buried the hatchet. The supermodel, 50, enjoyed lunch with her sibling, 26, and daughter Lila (centre)
The two were once so close Lottie moved into her sister's Cotswolds mansion during the Covid pandemic. However, tensions soon grew over Lottie's wild partying ways (pictured in 2023)
Kate, Nick and Lottie at their father's birthday, along with Nick's girlfriend Tracy and Kate's daughter Lila
Their lifestyle clash came to a head between the pair during lockdown, when Kate invited Lottie to stay at her Cotswolds mansion.
An insider told Page Six: 'Kate was frustrated because Lottie kept on wanting to drink and posting sexually provocative stuff on Instagram all the time.
'It isn't easy for Kate to be around people who are drinking, and she definitely won't be around anyone who is using cocaine.'
Kate was famously dubbed 'Cocaine Kate' when she was photographed snorting the substance in 2005, while dating Pete Doherty, who has made no secret of his own past drug use and addiction to heroin.
When Lottie finally departed the Vogue cover star's home 'in a foul mood', she reportedly left behind two bottles of her sister's favourite bottle of wine which was interpreted as a 'f**k you' gesture.
The roots of the rift between the sisters seem to originate with the large age gap between them.
Lottie is the daughter of Kate's father, travel agent Peter Moss, and his second wife, Norwegian Inger Solnordal, and was raised in Haywards Heath, West Sussex.
By the time she was born in 1998, Kate was already at the height of her fame as a catwalk model and had enjoyed a high profile romance with Johnny Depp.
Given her older sister's profile, it was no surprise when Lottie followed in her footsteps and signed with Storm Management in 2014 and began a mainstream modelling career.
And Kate seemed to give Lottie's career her seal of approval.
That same year, the pair were spotted side-by-side at fashion shows, including a Topshop runway show in 2014.
Meanwhile her first photoshoot was published in Teen Vogue, and she had her first full editorial not long afterwards in Dazed & Confused, a magazine which was co-founded by Kate's ex-husband, Jefferson Hack.
At one point it seemed like Lottie was on course to reach supermodel status in her own right, with modelling gigs for Chanel and Sonia Rykiel and an ad campaign for Calvin Klein.
Aged 18, she was invited to Cannes as a guest of Dior and Chopard, while completing her A-levels.
Despite public perception that her famous older sister must have boosted her career, Lottie later insisted the opposite was true.
Appearing on The Matt Haycox Show Podcast in November 2023, Lottie said she has never had a close-knit bond with Kate.
When questioned on if she asked her big sister for advice when she entered the world of modelling, the Only Fans content creator confessed the two hadn't even been close when she was a child.
It comes after years of apparent ups and downs for the sisters, who once appeared to share such a bond that Kate invited her younger sibling to stay at her Cotswold home during the Covid-19 pandemic (left, and right, together at Kate's wedding in 2011)
'No, we just never really spoke honestly. It's always been that way, I never was sad about it really,' she said.
'You know obviously it's not great to hear that someone doesn't really care for a relationship with you... but you know we would see each other at Christmases and things like that and play family a little bit.'
Explaining her estranged relationship with her fashionista half-sister, Lottie revealed she had 'never really known' Kate, adding: 'It wasn't like I was losing someone.'
'It was never really like she chose to leave, she's 20 years older than me she's got every right to live her own life, she doesn't need to hang around with me.'
She doubled down on her claims in another inteview, saying that people had a 'common misconception' of her as a 'nepo baby' because of Kate.
'How do I say to people that I don't know her and that she doesn't reply to my texts?' she added.
Kate Moss and Lottie Moss attend the Topshop Unique show at London Fashion Week in 2014
I honestly think the whole "nepo baby" concept is so weird; there are so many people in the world that have had obvious advantages in their career because of who they know or who someone in their family is, not just famous people.'
The truth of the matter, however, seems to be a little more complicated that Lottie has made out.
According to a family member, the pair did once share a bond, which cooled along with Lottie's public proclamations about their relationship.
‘There was a time when they were a lot closer,' they told MailOnline.
But they insisted they don’t want to talk about the sisters’ feelings for each other in public - but should address any issues privately within the family.
Then, there was the controversial launch of her X-rated OnlyFans career, where she stripped naked for the subscription service, leaving behind her career in high fashion.
Lottie was swiftly removed from the Storm modelling agency website, with her admitting her family 'was in turmoil over it'.
A family source claimed at the time, even Kate's daughter Lila, 21, 'wouldn't have anything to do with Lottie' due to her antics with the wrong crowd.
Lottie also launched her X-rated OnlyFans career. Prior to that, Lottie had been signed with Kate's old modelling agency, but was swiftly removed from the agency's website
In the 90s and 00s, Kate was known for emerging from clubs looking bleary-eyed with a cigarette permanently dangling from her lips as part of the Primrose Hill set (pictured 2010)
Wild: Kate was a member of The Primrose Hill Set - a name given to the all-star group of edgy residents who were known in their heyday for their raucous behaviour (pictured in April 2007)
Lila, Nick, Inger and Lottie enjoy some time together at Peter's 80th birthday party
In early 2022, Lottie ended up in rehab after moving to America and she later revealed she had a 'very bad' cocaine addiction and used alcohol to mask her depression.
The OnlyFans star's mother Inger and her best friend staged an intervention and encouraged Lottie to seek help for substance abuse issues at the rehab centre in Arizona.
She told Jamie Laing on his podcast last year: 'I didn't realise I had depression for a very long time. I just thought everyone felt this way... and I thought you just kind of get through it...
'I couldn't get out of bed in the morning. I quit modelling; I was doing some OnlyFans but not really. I didn't recognise myself...
'I always wanted to be the fun one, and then I got to the point that my mum and best friend came to me and said: "You need to get rehab because you are so depressed".
Lottie said she never touched drugs or alcohol before becoming a catwalk star but later became hooked.
Lottie (pictured with Kate in 2014) was a bridesmaid at Kate's wedding and, when she started modelling at the age of 16 for Teen Vogue
Kate Moss with brother Nick, (left), their model half-sister Lottie (left), her father Pete (centre), her daughter Lila (right)
Family: Model sisters Lottie (fourth right) and Kate Moss (far right) looked delighted as they posed for a festive snap in the Cotswolds alongside their stylish family in 2019
She also he never felt able to confide in her half sister Kate about her troubles, admitting the endless comparison with the supermodel was a constant burden during her career.
Lottie said: 'I started quite early on with using drugs and alcohol as a crutch, as a coping mechanism, which there is not a lack of in the fashion industry.
'There were people in positions of power that were giving me drugs and alcohol when I was very young and so it didn't seem bad to me.'
She continued: 'When you have people around you who are enabling you, I am talking at high fashion events and people are in a penthouse suite, and its people that are working for a brand that is very well known and they're sat there doing drugs with you as a 19-year-old.
'That is so weird to me now… that should never happen in any industry.
'The fact that no one said, "maybe we shouldn't be enabling our client to do drugs. We should want her to be on her A game and doing her best, wake up in the morning and do a gym class, instead it was lots of alcohol", and it goes hand in hand.'
A TIMELINE OF THE MOSS SISTERS' RELATIONSHIP
9 January 1998 - Lottie Moss is born to Kate's father, travel agent Peter Moss, and his second wife, Norwegian Inger Solnordal.
2011 - Lottie is a bridesmaid at Kate's wedding to musician Jamie Hince and immediately attracts global attention .
2014 - Lottie signs with Storm Management in 2014 and began a mainstream modelling career.
The sisters are snapped side-by-side at London Fashion Week.
2020 - Lottie stays at Kate's Cotswold home during Covid-19 lockdown.
Sources later say Kate's daughter Lila 'won't have anything to do with Lottie' and Kate was 'frustrated because Lottie kept wanting to drink and post sexually provocative stuff on Instagram'.
2021 - Lottie launches her OnlyFans page and begins to transition to more X-rated snaps and videos.
She admits it's hard to be compared to Kate, and says she 'wanted to do something of her own' so 'now takes naked pictures'.
2022 - Lottie goes to rehab for substance abuse issues. She later says Kate was supportive of her stint in rehab.
However Page Six reports Kate is 'mortified' by Lottie's behaviour'.
The same year, it was revealed Storm modelling agency had deleted Lottie from its website, prompting speculation that they have axed the troubled star over her wild lifestyle, cocaine addiction, and cosmetic surgery.
Months later, Lottie hit out at her famous half-sister Kate, saying she has 'never really supported me' in a scathing Instagram post.
Sources tell Alison Boshoff Kate was said to be hurt by Lottie's comments.
2023 - Despite Kate's comments, Lottie goes on to write a number of essays about their relationship claiming she was offered no support from her sister as she made her first tentative steps as a model in her own right.
She appears on reality show Celebs Go Dating - with experts saying they hope the show will be 'an olive branch' between the sisters because they are 'not close.'
Lottie says she is 'not close' to Kate in an interview, adding: 'She doesn’t have to want to have a relationship with me.'
2024 - Pair put on a united front at their father's 80th birthday party
AdvertisementLottie admits her drug taking became so regular she was using 'five times a week,' sparked by an unhappy relationship with an older man.
She explained: 'I did weed and things like that when I was 15 but moving to London and being around a lot of older people, my boyfriend at the time was 27 and the people we were hanging around with did a lot of drugs.
'I started to realise quite early on that my relationship wasn't going very well with him and he was unfaithful, and he was also using drugs as a coping mechanism. I saw that and I instilled it into my life because it was the only time, I felt that I could be free.
'When I was working constantly, I had to be on my A game so when I came back to London and did drugs, I was like "yes" because it felt like freedom to me. It felt like my escape, but it quickly became something that I used because I was not happy.
'I have been honest with myself back then that I was using it too much. I don't feel that I had an addiction to it… I just needed to get away. It numbed every single feeling that I had like anger, upset, loneliness, it became like my friend.'
In January this year, Lottie marked four days sober. She said in an emotional video: 'I have struggled so much since I was young with depression, anxiety and problems with addiction'
A year later, in 2023, Lottie appeared on the reality show Celebs Go Dating and enjoyed an on-screen romance with Love Island star Adam Collard.
Depsite reality TV and OnlyFans being a world away from the Chanel catwalk, Lottie insists she now achieves more job satisfaction from being a 'content creator'.
'People think I came into it because I was in this bad place in my life, and it was all going wrong, but it was the opposite,' she insists.
'Modelling stood for something I was not really a fan of and when I found Only Fans I met all these girls that were similar to me. I always wanted to be a bit more risqué and I always wanted to get my body out.'
It doubtful Kate will share the same opinion of her career, but - for now at least - it appears the two have agreed to differ.
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