Superstar Couples

Love is blind.
Between supermodel Kate Moss, 33, and her lover musician Peter Doherty, 27, love is truly blind. In fact, it is even deaf. A normal person would ask: what does Kate see in Pete? Really, what qualities does Pete have that Kate doesn’t want to let him go? Is it the fear of being alone? Is it his “extraordinary, free-spirited, talented” personality that matches Kate’s?
There’s Kate. A fashion icon, a supermodel, a celebrity. Most of all a favourite fodder to British rags, her glamorous life, her health, the drug scandals, the depression and her sordid love affairs. One boulevard press paid attention to her habit–shopping for new boyfriends–more often than she changed her undies. One of her quests, the romance with Johnny Depp was celebrated, whom she declared then the love of her life. When they split up she sunk into deep depression. After some rehab visits, love mishaps, and eventually the appearance of her daughter Lila Grace, now four, she met Pete.
And then there’s also The Babyshambles frontman who isn’t a stranger to fame. His former band, The Libertines, tasted a brief popularity in the early 2000 until the members decided to call it quits. His notoriety–affair with drugs, arrests and court appearances–and his high-profile relationship with Kate has made him a household name. And eventually a pariah. Both from the press and Kate’s friends, pinpointing his addiction and his misdemeanor a bad influence on Kate. Some of them even said he was a parasite, a sucker to the supermodel’s success. They even claimed that she was fighting her own demons why bring another one to her life who has more, worse, more toxic? She continued the affair much to the detriment of the public and the media. Pete’s own grieving mother cannot pacify the rock star.
Because of Pete’s repetitive use of drugs, everyone gets worried and thinks it is an irresponsible act to let Kate’s daughter come near him. This is exactly the thoughts of Kate’s ex and Lila Grace’s father, Jefferson Hack, 35.
The ultimate trial came in autumn 2005. When she was caught snorting lines of cocaine “in a matter of minutes” by a clever onlooker, reportedly Pete’s manager, who didn’t hesitate to sell the pictures to the Daily Mirror, she lost her major modelling contracts. By the time she publicly apologised, she decided to leave Pete and checked herself to a rehab.
Burberry and Co. might have said their adieu but not her friends. One day, she bounced back. Her face, still waifish all these years, was again on the front page of fashion magazines. This time fresh and with renewed hopes.
But her love for Pete has always been there. There was the reported list of to-dos for her lover to come clean and be free of substance. She encouraged him to go to drug therapy. And there were also the aborted wedding plans–first in Bali then again in Thailand. In Florence, Italy the two were seen shopping for an engagement ring last year. When Kate was in Bali, Pete couldn’t leave London due to an appearance in court. When the two was in Thailand the model was in constant fear of her boyfriend. She knew that being busted in Thailand for drugs is the end of their story. In fact, what makes her more afraid is losing Pete to drugs.
Still she keeps hanging on to him whatever happens.
Recently, photos showing one member of his band holding a gun prompted the spokesperson of Mothers Against Gun, Lucy Cope, to comment that posing with “glamourising a gun, whether it is real or not,” is disgusting. After the said images surfaced Kate and Pete were caught enjoying the coming sping in the model’s country house.
Perhaps it is true love that binds them together. I mean, come on, this isn’t confined only to celebrities. The only difference is that they have a fat account and we don’t have. Some might say the Kate-Peter affair is one classic example of why girls find bad boys attractive. Or maybe, there must be something in Pete that Kate cannot simply resist. Only the supermodel knows why.

Kate Moss, Pete Doherty, Lila Grace, The Babyshambles